[PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 13/09/2025 à 02:37, Askar Safin a écrit :
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> 
> There is no any reason for having special mechanism
> for setting ramdisk size.

That's you opinion.

You should explain why.

> 
> Also this allows us to change rd_size variable to static
> 
> Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar at gmail.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c | 12 ------------
>   drivers/block/brd.c           |  8 ++++----
>   include/linux/initrd.h        |  3 ---

What about:

arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:early_param("rd_size", rd_size_early);

Is it unrelated ?

>   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c b/arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c
> index a3f0a4f84e04..615d9e83c9b5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c
> @@ -87,18 +87,6 @@ static int __init parse_tag_videotext(const struct tag *tag)
>   __tagtable(ATAG_VIDEOTEXT, parse_tag_videotext);
>   #endif
> 
> -#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
> -static int __init parse_tag_ramdisk(const struct tag *tag)
> -{
> -       if (tag->u.ramdisk.size)
> -               rd_size = tag->u.ramdisk.size;
> -
> -       return 0;
> -}
> -
> -__tagtable(ATAG_RAMDISK, parse_tag_ramdisk);
> -#endif
> -
>   static int __init parse_tag_serialnr(const struct tag *tag)
>   {
>          system_serial_low = tag->u.serialnr.low;
> diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
> index 0c2eabe14af3..72f02d2b8a99 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/brd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
> 
>   #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> 
> +static unsigned long rd_size = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE;
> +module_param(rd_size, ulong, 0444);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_size, "Size of each RAM disk in kbytes.");
> +
>   /*
>    * Each block ramdisk device has a xarray brd_pages of pages that stores
>    * the pages containing the block device's contents.
> @@ -209,10 +213,6 @@ static int rd_nr = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT;
>   module_param(rd_nr, int, 0444);
>   MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_nr, "Maximum number of brd devices");
> 
> -unsigned long rd_size = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE;
> -module_param(rd_size, ulong, 0444);
> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_size, "Size of each RAM disk in kbytes.");
> -
>   static int max_part = 1;
>   module_param(max_part, int, 0444);
>   MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_part, "Num Minors to reserve between devices");
> diff --git a/include/linux/initrd.h b/include/linux/initrd.h
> index 6320a9cb6686..b42235c21444 100644
> --- a/include/linux/initrd.h
> +++ b/include/linux/initrd.h
> @@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
> 
>   #define INITRD_MINOR 250 /* shouldn't collide with /dev/ram* too soon ... */
> 
> -/* size of a single RAM disk */
> -extern unsigned long rd_size;
> -
>   /* 1 if it is not an error if initrd_start < memory_start */
>   extern int initrd_below_start_ok;
> 
> --
> 2.47.2
> 
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