Re: [PATCH v3 08/12] x86, boot: Don't check if cmd_line_ptr is accessiblein misc/decompressor()

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Nov 21 2012 - 12:21:19 EST


On 11/20/2012 11:16 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
At that stage, it is already in 32bit protected mode or 64bit mode.
so we do not need to check if ptr less 1M.

When go from other boot loader (kexec) instead of boot/ code path.

Move out accessible checking out __cmdline_find_option....

So misc.c will parse cmdline and have debug print out.

Your description doesn't seem to match the code, and is incredibly confusing to the reader.

The reason why is because you leave out an essential piece of information: cmdline.c is included both in 16-bit code and in the decompressor (32/64-bit code), so you want to move the test out of the shared code.

-hpa
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