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Date:   Thu, 2 Mar 2023 11:44:02 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/24] Remove COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from uapi

Hi Alex,

On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 11:09 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr> wrote:
> On 3/2/23 10:47, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 10:35 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com> wrote:
> >> This all came up in the context of increasing COMMAND_LINE_SIZE in the
> >> RISC-V port.  In theory that's a UABI break, as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is the
> >> maximum length of /proc/cmdline and userspace could staticly rely on
> >> that to be correct.
> >>
> >> Usually I wouldn't mess around with changing this sort of thing, but
> >> PowerPC increased it with a5980d064fe2 ("powerpc: Bump COMMAND_LINE_SIZE
> >> to 2048").  There are also a handful of examples of COMMAND_LINE_SIZE
> >> increasing, but they're from before the UAPI split so I'm not quite sure
> >> what that means: e5a6a1c90948 ("powerpc: derive COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from
> >> asm-generic"), 684d2fd48e71 ("[S390] kernel: Append scpdata to kernel
> >> boot command line"), 22242681cff5 ("MIPS: Extend COMMAND_LINE_SIZE"),
> >> and 2b74b85693c7 ("sh: Derive COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from
> >> asm-generic/setup.h.").
> >>
> >> It seems to me like COMMAND_LINE_SIZE really just shouldn't have been
> >> part of the uapi to begin with, and userspace should be able to handle
> >> /proc/cmdline of whatever length it turns out to be.  I don't see any
> >> references to COMMAND_LINE_SIZE anywhere but Linux via a quick Google
> >> search, but that's not really enough to consider it unused on my end.
> >>
> >> This issue was already considered in s390 and they reached the same
> >> conclusion in commit 622021cd6c56 ("s390: make command line
> >> configurable").
> >>
> >> The feedback on the v1 seemed to indicate that COMMAND_LINE_SIZE really
> >> shouldn't be part of uapi, so this now touches all the ports.  I've
> >> tried to split this all out and leave it bisectable, but I haven't
> >> tested it all that aggressively.
> >>
> >> Changes since v3 <https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230214074925.228106-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com/>:
> >> * Added RB/AB
> >> * Added a mention to commit 622021cd6c56 ("s390: make command line
> >>    configurable") in the cover letter
> > Thanks for the update!
> >
> >   Apparently you forgot to add your own SoB?
>
> I do not know, should I? Palmer did all the work, I only fixed 3 minor
> things

If you are picking up patches, and submitting them to someone else
for upstream inclusion, you should add your own SoB.
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#L419

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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