linux/init
Paul E. McKenney b743852ccc Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing
The BOOT_CONFIG family of Kconfig options allows a bootconfig file
containing kernel boot parameters to be embedded into an initrd or into
the kernel itself.  This can be extremely useful when deploying kernels
in cases where some of the boot parameters depend on the kernel version
rather than on the server hardware, firmware, or workload.

Unfortunately, the "bootconfig" kernel parameter must be specified in
order to cause the kernel to look for the embedded bootconfig file,
and it clearly does not help to embed this "bootconfig" kernel parameter
into that file.

Therefore, provide a new BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE Kconfig option that causes the
kernel to act as if the "bootconfig" kernel parameter had been specified.
In other words, kernels built with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y will look
for the embedded bootconfig file even when the "bootconfig" kernel
parameter is omitted.  This permits kernel-version-dependent kernel
boot parameters to be embedded into the kernel image without the need to
(for example) update large numbers of boot loaders.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230105005838.GA1772817@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2023-02-22 08:27:48 +09:00
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.gitignore kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
build-version kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
calibrate.c
do_mounts.c init: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
do_mounts.h init: add an init_mknod helper 2020-07-31 08:17:54 +02:00
do_mounts_initrd.c freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction 2022-09-07 21:53:48 +02:00
do_mounts_rd.c init: add an init_unlink helper 2020-07-31 08:17:52 +02:00
init_task.c rcu-tasks: Add data structures for lightweight grace periods 2022-06-20 09:22:28 -07:00
initramfs.c initramfs: remove unnecessary (void*) conversion 2022-11-18 13:55:08 -08:00
Kconfig Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing 2023-02-22 08:27:48 +09:00
main.c Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing 2023-02-22 08:27:48 +09:00
Makefile kbuild: Fix CFI hash randomization with KASAN 2023-01-13 15:22:03 -08:00
noinitramfs.c init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
version-timestamp.c init/version-timestamp.c: remove unneeded #include <linux/version.h> 2023-01-09 07:34:38 +09:00
version.c init/version.c: remove #include <generated/utsrelease.h> 2022-12-10 10:33:20 +09:00