Please, no semicolons. We already have established syntax for suboptions 
(option=suboption,suboption,...) and suboptions with parameters 
(option=suboption:value,...)

Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 03:17:01PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>[..]
>> @@ -1360,37 +1369,80 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_simp
>>  
>>      if (*cur == '@')
>>              *crash_base = memparse(cur+1, &cur);
>> -    else if (*cur != ' ' && *cur != '\0') {
>> -            pr_warning("crashkernel: unrecognized char\n");
>> -            return -EINVAL;
>> +    else {
>> +            int i;
>> +
>> +            /* check with known suffix */
>> +            for (i = 0; suffix_tbl[i]; i++)
>> +                    if (!strncmp(cur, suffix_tbl[i], strlen(suffix_tbl[i])))
>> +                            return 0;
>> +
>
>So crashkernel=X@Y;high is a valid syntax? Looks like we will reserve
>X amount of RAM at base Y and ignore "high" or "low".
>
>[..]
>>  static int __init __parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
>>                           unsigned long long system_ram,
>>                           unsigned long long *crash_size,
>>                           unsigned long long *crash_base,
>> -                            const char *name)
>> +                         const char *name,
>> +                         const char *suffix,
>> +                         bool simple_only)
>>  {
>> -    char    *p = cmdline, *ck_cmdline = NULL;
>>      char    *first_colon, *first_space;
>> +    char    *ck_cmdline;
>>  
>>      BUG_ON(!crash_size || !crash_base);
>>      *crash_size = 0;
>>      *crash_base = 0;
>>  
>> -    /* find crashkernel and use the last one if there are more */
>> -    p = strstr(p, name);
>> -    while (p) {
>> -            ck_cmdline = p;
>> -            p = strstr(p+1, name);
>> -    }
>> +    ck_cmdline = get_last_crashkernel(cmdline, name, suffix);
>>  
>>      if (!ck_cmdline)
>>              return -EINVAL;
>> @@ -1403,23 +1455,30 @@ static int __init __parse_crashkernel(ch
>>       */
>>      first_colon = strchr(ck_cmdline, ':');
>>      first_space = strchr(ck_cmdline, ' ');
>> -    if (first_colon && (!first_space || first_colon < first_space))
>> -            return parse_crashkernel_mem(ck_cmdline, system_ram,
>> -                            crash_size, crash_base);
>> -    else
>> +    if (first_colon && (!first_space || first_colon < first_space)) {
>> +            if (simple_only)
>> +                    return -EINVAL;
>> +            else
>> +                    return parse_crashkernel_mem(ck_cmdline, system_ram,
>> +                                    crash_size, crash_base);
>> +    } else
>>              return parse_crashkernel_simple(ck_cmdline, crash_size,
>>                              crash_base);
>
>Why don't we structure it little differently. Now we seem to have 3 
>categories of crashkernel= parameters.
>
>- crashkernel_simple (crashkernel=X or crashkernel=X@Y)
>- crashkernel_mem (crashkernel=range:size,.....)
>- crashkerenl_high_low_suffix (crashkernel=X;high or crashkernel=Y;low)
>
>if (suffix) {
>       parse_crashkernel_high_low_suffix()
>} else {
>       if (first_colon.....)
>               parse_crashkernel_mem()
>       else
>               parse_crashkernel_simple();
>}
>
>And now you should not require "simple_only" function parameter and you
>can also do strict syntax checking for each type of crashkernel=
>parameter.
>
>Thanks
>Vivek

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