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Linus Torvalds
512b7931ad Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...
2021-11-06 14:08:17 -07:00
Mike Rapoport
4421cca0a3 memblock: use memblock_free for freeing virtual pointers
Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.

    @@
    identifier vaddr;
    expression size;
    @@
    (
    - memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    |
    - memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    )

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Shahab Vahedi <Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06 13:30:41 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
39d9c1c103 bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
The do while loop continues while ret is zero, but ret is never
initialized. The check for ret in the loop at the while should always be
initialized, but if an empty string were to be passed in, q would be NULL
and p would be '\0', and it would break out of the loop without ever
setting ret.

Set ret to zero, and then xbc_verify_tree() would be called and catch that
it is an empty tree and report the proper error.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027105753.6ab9da5f@gandalf.local.home

Fixes: bdac5c2b24 ("bootconfig: Allocate xbc_data inside xbc_init()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-27 11:22:09 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
010db091b6 lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
Fix the kernel doc of xbc_get_info() to add '@' to the parameters.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163525086738.676803.15352231787913236933.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: e306220cb7 ("bootconfig: Add xbc_get_info() for the node information")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-26 17:23:45 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
4d1c92a4f5 lib/bootconfig: Make xbc_alloc_mem() and xbc_free_mem() as __init function
Since the xbc_alloc_mem() and xbc_free_mem() are used from
the __init functions and memblock_alloc() is __init function,
make them __init functions too.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163515075747.547467.5746167540626712819.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 4ee1b4cac2 ("bootconfig: Cleanup dummy headers in tools/bootconfig")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-26 17:23:45 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
4ee1b4cac2 bootconfig: Cleanup dummy headers in tools/bootconfig
Cleanup dummy headers in tools/bootconfig/include except
for tools/bootconfig/include/linux/bootconfig.h.
For this change, I use __KERNEL__ macro to split kernel
header #include and introduce xbc_alloc_mem() and
xbc_free_mem().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163187299574.2366983.18371329724128746091.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-10 22:16:02 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
4f292c4886 bootconfig: Replace u16 and u32 with uint16_t and uint32_t
Replace u16 and u32 with uint16_t and uint32_t so
that the tools/bootconfig only needs <stdint.h>.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163187298835.2366983.9838262576854319669.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-10 20:44:05 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
9b81c9bfff bootconfig: Remove unused debug function
Remove unused xbc_debug_dump() from bootconfig for clean up
the code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163187297371.2366983.12943349701785875450.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-10 20:44:05 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
f3668cde85 bootconfig: Split parse-tree part from xbc_init
Split bootconfig data parser to build tree code from
xbc_init(). This is an internal cosmetic change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163187296647.2366983.15590065167920474865.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-10 20:44:05 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
115d4d08ae bootconfig: Rename xbc_destroy_all() to xbc_exit()
Avoid using this noisy name and use more calm one.
This is just a name change. No functional change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163187295918.2366983.5231840238429996027.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-10 20:44:05 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
e306220cb7 bootconfig: Add xbc_get_info() for the node information
Add xbc_get_info() API which allows user to get the
number of used xbc_nodes and the size of bootconfig
data. This is also useful for checking the bootconfig
is initialized or not.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163177340877.682366.4360676589783197627.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-10 20:43:53 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
bdac5c2b24 bootconfig: Allocate xbc_data inside xbc_init()
Allocate 'xbc_data' in the xbc_init() so that it does
not need to care about the ownership of the copied
data.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163177339986.682366.898762699429769117.stgit@devnote2

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-10 20:43:42 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
77e02cf57b memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface
The boot-time allocation interface for memblock is a mess, with
'memblock_alloc()' returning a virtual pointer, but then you are
supposed to free it with 'memblock_free()' that takes a _physical_
address.

Not only is that all kinds of strange and illogical, but it actually
causes bugs, when people then use it like a normal allocation function,
and it fails spectacularly on a NULL pointer:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912140820.GD25450@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/

or just random memory corruption if the debug checks don't catch it:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ab2d0c-3313-aaab-514c-e15b7aa054a0@suse.cz/

I really don't want to apply patches that treat the symptoms, when the
fundamental cause is this horribly confusing interface.

I started out looking at just automating a sane replacement sequence,
but because of this mix or virtual and physical addresses, and because
people have used the "__pa()" macro that can take either a regular
kernel pointer, or just the raw "unsigned long" address, it's all quite
messy.

So this just introduces a new saner interface for freeing a virtual
address that was allocated using 'memblock_alloc()', and that was kept
as a regular kernel pointer.  And then it converts a couple of users
that are obvious and easy to test, including the 'xbc_nodes' case in
lib/bootconfig.c that caused problems.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Fixes: 40caa127f3 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed")
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-14 13:23:22 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
5dfe50b055 bootconfig: Rename xbc_node_find_child() to xbc_node_find_subkey()
Rename xbc_node_find_child() to xbc_node_find_subkey() for
clarifying that function returns a key node (no value node).
Since there are xbc_node_for_each_child() (loop on all child
nodes) and xbc_node_for_each_subkey() (loop on only subkey
nodes), this name distinction is necessary to avoid confusing
users.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163119459826.161018.11200274779483115300.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-09-09 19:14:33 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
e5efaeb8a8 bootconfig: Support mixing a value and subkeys under a key
Support mixing a value and subkeys under a key. Since kernel cmdline
options will support "aaa.bbb=value1 aaa.bbb.ccc=value2", it is
better that the bootconfig supports such configuration too.

Note that this does not change syntax itself but just accepts
mixed value and subkeys e.g.

key = value1
key.subkey = value2

But this is not accepted;

key {
 value1
 subkey = value2
}

That will make value1 as a subkey.

Also, the order of the value node under a key is fixed. If there
are a value and subkeys, the value is always the first child node
of the key. Thus if user specifies subkeys first, e.g.

key.subkey = value1
key = value2

In the program (and /proc/bootconfig), it will be shown as below

key = value2
key.subkey = value1

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162262194685.264090.7738574774030567419.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-10 13:41:26 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
ca24306d83 bootconfig: Change array value to use child node
It is not possible to put an array value with subkeys under
a key node, because both of subkeys and the array elements
are using "next" field of the xbc_node.

Thus this changes the array values to use "child" field in
the array case. The reason why split this change is to
test it easily.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162262193838.264090.16044473274501498656.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-10 13:38:25 -04:00
Nick Desaulniers
4c1ca831ad Revert "lib: Revert use of fallthrough pseudo-keyword in lib/"
This reverts commit 6a9dc5fd61 ("lib: Revert use of fallthrough
pseudo-keyword in lib/")

Now that we can build arch/powerpc/boot/ free of -Wimplicit-fallthrough,
re-enable these fixes for lib/.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/236
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
2020-11-18 14:15:17 -06:00
Masami Hiramatsu
c7af4ecdff lib/bootconfig: Fix to remove tailing spaces after value
Fix to remove tailing spaces after value. If there is a space
after value, the bootconfig failed to remove it because it
applies strim() before replacing the delimiter with null.

For example,

foo = var    # comment

was parsed as below.

foo="var    "

but user will expect

foo="var"

This fixes it by applying strim() after removing the delimiter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160068149134.1088739.8868306567670058853.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 76db5a27a8 ("bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support")
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-09-21 21:50:09 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
ead1e19ad9 lib/bootconfig: Fix a bug of breaking existing tree nodes
Fix a bug of breaking existing tree nodes by parsing the second
and subsequent braces. Since the bootconfig parser uses the
node.next field as a flag of current parent node, but this will
break the existing tree if the same key node is specified again
in the bootconfig.

For example, the following bootconfig should be foo.buz and bar.

foo
bar
foo { buz }

However, when parsing the brace "{", it breaks foo->bar link
by marking open-brace node. So the bootconfig unlinks bar
from the bootconfig internal tree.

This introduces a stack outside of the tree and record the
last open-brace on the stack instead of using node.next field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160068148267.1088739.8264704338030168660.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 76db5a27a8 ("bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support")
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-09-21 21:45:52 -04:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva
6a9dc5fd61 lib: Revert use of fallthrough pseudo-keyword in lib/
The following build error for powerpc64 was reported by Nathan Chancellor:

  "$ scripts/config --file arch/powerpc/configs/powernv_defconfig -e KERNEL_XZ

   $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux- distclean powernv_defconfig zImage
   ...
   In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c:234,
                    from arch/powerpc/boot/decompress.c:38:
   arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/xz/xz_dec_stream.c: In function 'dec_main':
   arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/xz/xz_dec_stream.c:586:4: error: 'fallthrough' undeclared (first use in this function)
     586 |    fallthrough;
         |    ^~~~~~~~~~~

   This will end up affecting distribution configurations such as Debian
   and OpenSUSE according to my testing. I am not sure what the solution
   is, the PowerPC wrapper does not set -D__KERNEL__ so I am not sure
   that compiler_attributes.h can be safely included."

In order to avoid these sort of problems, it seems that the best
solution is to use /* fall through */ comments instead of the
fallthrough pseudo-keyword macro in lib/, for now.

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Fixes: df561f6688 ("treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-24 14:17:44 -07:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva
df561f6688 treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword
Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a2de2f86ae lib/bootconfig: Add override operator support
Add the value override operator (":=") support to the bootconfig.

This value override operator will be useful for the bootloaders
which will only update the existing bootconfig according to the
bootloader boot options.

Without this override operator, the bootloader needs to parse
the existing bootconfig and update it. However, with this
assignment, it can just append the updated (partial) bootconfig
text at the tail of existing one without parsing it.
(Of course, it must update the size, checksum and magic,
 but that will be done easily)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159482882954.126704.16209517125614438640.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-08-03 16:22:28 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
89b74cac78 tools/bootconfig: Show line and column in parse error
Show line and column when we got a parse error in bootconfig tool.
Current lib/bootconfig shows the parse error with byte offset, but
that is not human readable.
This makes xbc_init() not showing error message itself but able to
pass the error message and position to caller, so that the caller
can decode it and show the error message with line number and columns.

With this patch, bootconfig tool shows an error with line:column as
below.

  $ cat samples/bad-dotword.bconf
  # do not start keyword with .
  key {
    .word = 1
  }
  $ ./bootconfig -a samples/bad-dotword.bconf initrd
  Parse Error: Invalid keyword at 3:3

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158323469002.10560.4023923847704522760.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-03-03 17:38:42 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
5f811c57c9 bootconfig: Add append value operator support
Add append value operator "+=" support to bootconfig syntax.
With this operator, user can add new value to the key as
an entry of array instead of overwriting.
For example,

  foo = bar
  ...
  foo += baz

Then the key "foo" has "bar" and "baz" values as an array.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158227283195.12842.8310503105963275584.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-02-21 09:59:39 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
4e4694d872 bootconfig: Prohibit re-defining value on same key
Currently, bootconfig adds a new value on the existing key to the tail of an
array. But this looks a bit confusing because an admin can easily rewrite
the original value in the same config file.

This rejects the following value re-definition.

  key = value1
  ...
  key = value2

You should rewrite value1 to value2 in this case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158227282199.12842.10110929876059658601.stgit@devnote2

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Fixed spelling of arraies to arrays ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-02-21 09:59:19 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a24d286f36 bootconfig: Reject subkey and value on same parent key
Reject if a value node is mixed with subkey node on same
parent key node.

A value node can not co-exist with subkey node under some key
node, e.g.

key = value
key.subkey = another-value

This is not be allowed because bootconfig API is not designed
to handle such case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158220115232.26565.7792340045009731803.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-02-20 17:54:09 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a91e4f12ff bootconfig: Allocate xbc_nodes array dynamically
To reduce the large static array from kernel data, allocate
xbc_nodes array dynamically only if the kernel loads a
bootconfig.

Note that this also add dummy memblock.h for user-spacae
bootconfig tool.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158108569699.3187.6512834527603883707.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-02-10 17:19:39 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
0f0d0a77cc tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
Show the number of bootconfig nodes when applying new bootconfig to
initrd.

Since there are limitations of bootconfig not only in its filesize,
but also the number of nodes, the number should be shown when applying
so that user can get the feeling of scale of current bootconfig.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158091061337.27924.10886706631693823982.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-02-05 17:17:05 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
597c0e3b45 bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
Add more error messages for following cases.
 - Exceeding max number of nodes
 - Config tree data is empty (e.g. comment only)
 - Config data is empty or exceeding max size
 - bootconfig is already initialized

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158091060401.27924.9024818742827122764.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-02-05 17:17:05 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu
76db5a27a8 bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support
Extra Boot Config (XBC) allows admin to pass a tree-structured
boot configuration file when boot up the kernel. This extends
the kernel command line in an efficient way.

Boot config will contain some key-value commands, e.g.

key.word = value1
another.key.word = value2

It can fold same keys with braces, also you can write array
data. For example,

key {
   word1 {
      setting1 = data
      setting2
   }
   word2.array = "val1", "val2"
}

User can access these key-value pair and tree structure via
SKC APIs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867221257.17873.1775090991929862549.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-01-13 13:19:38 -05:00