linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/boot: Move get_cmd_line_ptr() and COMMAND_LINE

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Date:   Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:30:02 -0400
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>, x86@...nel.org,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/boot: Move get_cmd_line_ptr() and
 COMMAND_LINE_SIZE into misc.h

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 05:10:47PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 09:47:23AM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > Are you ok with the include of setup.h?
> 
> Or you could simply add cmdline.h and include that. It is high time we
> started cleaning up that include hell in compressed/ and all facilities
> there be nicely separated. Recently I started untangling it but it is a
> serious mess. And kernel proper includes leak in there, yuck.
> 

Ok, I can do that.

I'm working on a couple of separate series to clean up cmdline and the
compressed boot code a bit. I was actually planning to get rid of
boot/compressed/cmdline.c entirely, replacing it with
arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c instead: that one's better and is reusable as-is
for the decompressor stub, instead of the current hack to use the
real-mode boot stub's cmdline.c. The real mess in there is all the
includes of .c files from various places.