x86 boot : export boot_params via debugfs for debugging

This patch export the boot parameters via debugfs for debugging.

The files added are as follow:

boot_params/data    :  binary file for struct boot_params
boot_params/version :  boot protocol version

This patch is based on 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 and has been tested on i386 and
x86_64 platform.

This patch is based on the Peter Anvin's proposal.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
index 704550fdb84c..3bce4af60bb6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -194,7 +194,11 @@ unsigned long saved_videomode;
 
 static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
 struct boot_params __initdata boot_params;
+#else
+struct boot_params boot_params;
+#endif
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_EDD) || defined(CONFIG_EDD_MODULE)
 struct edd edd;