Add the build-time pipeline that renders the "kernel" subtree of CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE into a flat cmdline string and stashes it in .init.rodata as embedded_kernel_cmdline[]. A follow-up patch adds the runtime helper that prepends this string to boot_command_line during early architecture setup so parse_early_param() sees the values. The build wires up: tools/bootconfig -C kernel - userspace tool already shared with lib/bootconfig.c, used here in -C mode to render a bootconfig file to a cmdline lib/embedded-cmdline.S - .incbin's the rendered text plus a NUL (listed under the EXTRA BOOT CONFIG MAINTAINERS entry) lib/Makefile rule - runs tools/bootconfig at build time Makefile prepare dep - ensures tools/bootconfig is built first, same pattern as tools/objtool and tools/bpf/resolve_btfids Drop the test target from tools/bootconfig/Makefile's default 'all' recipe so that hooking the binary into the kernel build does not run test-bootconfig.sh on every prepare. The tests stay available as 'make -C tools/bootconfig test', matching the convention of tools/objtool and tools/bpf/resolve_btfids whose 'all' targets only build the binary. Require BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE to be non-empty before the new option can be enabled, otherwise tools/bootconfig -C runs against an empty file and prints a parse error on every kernel build. The feature gates on CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG, a silent symbol arches select once they've wired the prepend call into setup_arch(). No arch selects it in this patch, so the user-visible CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_CMDLINE is not yet enableable; when an arch later opts in, the runtime behavior is added by the follow-up patches. tools/bootconfig also installs on target systems, so its own Makefile keeps $(CC) and stays cross-buildable as a standalone tool. The kernel build, which runs the tool on the build host during prepare, instead forces CC=$(HOSTCC) from a dedicated tools/bootconfig rule, so the executed binary is always a host binary -- plain $(CC) would cross-compile it under ARCH=... and fail to exec ("Exec format error"). embedded-cmdline.S places the rendered string in .init.rodata with the "a" (allocatable, read-only) flag and %progbits, not "aw": the data is never written at runtime, so it must not land in a writable section. A follow-up patch wires the build-time tools/bootconfig into the top-level clean target. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao --- MAINTAINERS | 1 + Makefile | 11 +++++++++++ init/Kconfig | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/Makefile | 16 ++++++++++++++++ lib/embedded-cmdline.S | 16 ++++++++++++++++ tools/bootconfig/Makefile | 2 +- 6 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 4087b67bbc69..fb9314cbe344 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -9845,6 +9845,7 @@ F: fs/proc/bootconfig.c F: include/linux/bootconfig.h F: lib/bootconfig-data.S F: lib/bootconfig.c +F: lib/embedded-cmdline.S F: tools/bootconfig/* F: tools/bootconfig/scripts/* diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index d59f703f9797..4a8ea7c90ca8 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1543,6 +1543,17 @@ prepare: tools/bpf/resolve_btfids endif endif +# tools/bootconfig renders the embedded bootconfig into a cmdline at build time. +ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_CMDLINE +prepare: tools/bootconfig +endif + +# tools/bootconfig is run on the build host during prepare, so force a host +# binary here; its own Makefile keeps $(CC) for standalone and cross builds. +tools/bootconfig: FORCE + $(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools + $(Q)$(MAKE) O=$(abspath $(objtree)) subdir=tools -C $(srctree)/tools/ bootconfig CC=$(HOSTCC) + # The tools build system is not a part of Kbuild and tends to introduce # its own unique issues. If you need to integrate a new tool into Kbuild, # please consider locating that tool outside the tools/ tree and using the diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index ca35184532dc..203b1187fde7 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1569,6 +1569,42 @@ config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE This bootconfig will be used if there is no initrd or no other bootconfig in the initrd. +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG + bool + help + Silent symbol; no C code reads it directly. Architectures + select it once their setup_arch() calls + xbc_prepend_embedded_cmdline() before parse_early_param(). + Its only role is to gate the user-visible + BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_CMDLINE option per-arch, the same + ARCH_SUPPORTS_* idiom used by ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI, etc. + +config BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_CMDLINE + bool "Render embedded bootconfig as kernel cmdline at build time" + depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED + depends on BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE != "" + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG + default n + help + Render the "kernel" subtree of the embedded bootconfig file into a + flat cmdline string at kernel build time and prepend it to + boot_command_line during early architecture setup. This makes + early_param() handlers (e.g. mem=, earlycon=, loglevel=) see the + values supplied via the embedded bootconfig. + + The runtime bootconfig parser is unaffected, so tree-structured + consumers such as ftrace boot-time tracing keep working. + + Note: when an initrd also carries a bootconfig, its "kernel" + subtree is still parsed at runtime, but the embedded "kernel" + keys remain in boot_command_line for parse_early_param() and + end up later than the initrd keys in saved_command_line, so + parse_args() last-wins favors the embedded values. If you need + initrd to override embedded kernel.* keys, leave this option + off. + + If unsure, say N. + config CMDLINE_LOG_WRAP_IDEAL_LEN int "Length to try to wrap the cmdline when logged at boot" default 1021 diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile index 6e72d2c1cce7..9de0ac7732a2 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile +++ b/lib/Makefile @@ -273,6 +273,22 @@ filechk_defbconf = cat $(or $(real-prereqs), /dev/null) $(obj)/default.bconf: $(CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE) FORCE $(call filechk,defbconf) +obj-$(CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_CMDLINE) += embedded-cmdline.o +$(obj)/embedded-cmdline.o: $(obj)/embedded_cmdline.bin + +# Render the bootconfig "kernel" subtree to a flat cmdline string using +# the userspace tools/bootconfig parser (-C mode). The runtime prepend +# helper enforces COMMAND_LINE_SIZE at boot, so no build-time size +# check is performed here (COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is an arch header +# constant, not a Kconfig value). +quiet_cmd_render_cmdline = BCONF2C $@ + cmd_render_cmdline = \ + $(objtree)/tools/bootconfig/bootconfig -C $< > $@ + +targets += embedded_cmdline.bin +$(obj)/embedded_cmdline.bin: $(obj)/default.bconf $(objtree)/tools/bootconfig/bootconfig FORCE + $(call if_changed,render_cmdline) + obj-$(CONFIG_RBTREE_TEST) += rbtree_test.o obj-$(CONFIG_INTERVAL_TREE_TEST) += interval_tree_test.o diff --git a/lib/embedded-cmdline.S b/lib/embedded-cmdline.S new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..740d7ad2dc01 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/embedded-cmdline.S @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ +/* + * Embed the build-time-rendered bootconfig "kernel" subtree as a flat + * cmdline string. setup_arch() prepends this to boot_command_line on + * architectures that select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG. + * + * Copyright (c) 2026 Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates + * Copyright (c) 2026 Breno Leitao + */ + .section .init.rodata, "a", %progbits + .global embedded_kernel_cmdline +embedded_kernel_cmdline: + .incbin "lib/embedded_cmdline.bin" + .byte 0 + .global embedded_kernel_cmdline_end +embedded_kernel_cmdline_end: diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/Makefile b/tools/bootconfig/Makefile index 90eb47c9d8de..4e82fd9553cd 100644 --- a/tools/bootconfig/Makefile +++ b/tools/bootconfig/Makefile @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ override CFLAGS += -Wall -g -I$(CURDIR)/include ALL_TARGETS := bootconfig ALL_PROGRAMS := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)%,$(ALL_TARGETS)) -all: $(ALL_PROGRAMS) test +all: $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(OUTPUT)bootconfig: main.c include/linux/bootconfig.h $(LIBSRC) $(CC) $(filter %.c,$^) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ -- 2.53.0-Meta