[PATCH RESEND] Documentation: update kernel parameter limit notes

From: James Addison
Date: Tue Feb 28 2023 - 14:06:05 EST


There does appear to be a limit on the number of parameters accepted by the
kernel at boot-time, so this changeset updates the kernel-parameters.rst
documentation to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: James Addison <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
index 19600c502..a3a099127 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@ be entered as an environment variable, whereas its
absence indicates that
it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
running once the system is up.

-The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
+The number of kernel parameters is limited to 32 by default (128 in User Mode
+Linux), and is defined in ./init/main.c as MAX_INIT_ARGS. The length of the
complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file

base-commit: e492250d5252635b6c97d52eddf2792ec26f1ec1
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2.39.2