From: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
To: Dan Aloni <alonid@stratoscale.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
hpa@linux.intel.com, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
jacob.shin@amd.com,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: e820: fix memmap kernel boot parameter
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:15:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA_GA1ea84CvnvzisbhCXmNw+tv9ZQc1drgr8VkER-cpE2G1aQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130830061413.GA29949@gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Dan Aloni <alonid@stratoscale.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:47:53PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
>>[..]
>> Machine2: bootcmdline in grub.cfg "memmap=0x77ffffff$0x880000000", the result of
>> "cat /proc/cmdline" changed to "memmap=0x77ffffffx880000000".
>>
>> I didn't find the root cause, I think maybe grub reserved "$0" as something
>> special.
>> Replace '$' with '%' in kernel boot parameter can fix this issue.
>
> You are correct with the root cause, however I don't think the patch is needed.
>
> In order to bypass grub's variable evaluation you can simply use escaping
> and replace $ with \$ in your grub config.
>
I see, thank you very much!
--
Regards,
--Bob
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 5:47 Bob Liu
2013-08-30 6:14 ` Dan Aloni
2013-08-30 6:15 ` Bob Liu [this message]
2013-08-30 20:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
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