linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kernel/crash_core: separate the parsing routines to lib/parse

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Message-ID: <20190416190148.GM31772@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:01:48 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
        Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kernel/crash_core: separate the parsing routines
 to lib/parse_crashkernel.c

On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:58:34PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> Beside kernel, at early boot stage, the KASLR code also needs to parse the
> crashkernel=x@y or crashkernel=ramsize-range:size[,...][@offset] option,
> and avoid to put randomized kernel in the region.
> 
> Extracting the parsing related routines to lib/parse_crashkernel.c, so it
> will be handy included by other
> files.

Use this commit message for your next submission:

    crash: Carve out crashkernel= cmdline parsing

    Make the "crashkernel=" parsing functionality available to the early
    KASLR code. Will be used by a later patch to parse crashkernel regions
    which KASLR should aviod.

> Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
> Cc: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> CC: Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  kernel/crash_core.c     | 273 ---------------------------------------------
>  lib/Makefile            |   2 +
>  lib/parse_crashkernel.c | 289 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 291 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)

And this is not how you carve out code.

First, you do a patch which does only code move. Nothing more.

In a follow on patch, you make the changes to the moved code so that it
is immediately visible what you're changing.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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