The documented behaviour for CMDLINE_EXTEND is that the arguments from
the bootloader are appended to the built-in kernel command line. This
also matches the option parsing behaviour for the EFI stub and early ID
register overrides.
Bizarrely, the fdt behaviour is the other way around: appending the
built-in command line to the bootloader arguments, resulting in a
command-line that doesn't necessarily line-up with the parsing order and
definitely doesn't line-up with the documented behaviour.
As it turns out, there is a proposal [1] to replace CMDLINE_EXTEND with
CMDLINE_PREPEND and CMDLINE_APPEND options which should hopefully make
the intended behaviour much clearer. While we wait for those to land,
drop CMDLINE_EXTEND for now as there appears to be little enthusiasm for
changing the current FDT behaviour.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190319232448.45964-2-danielwa@cisco.com/
Cc: Max Uvarov <muvarov@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAL_JsqJX=TCCs7=gg486r9TN4NYscMTCLNfqJF9crskKPq-bTg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303134927.18975-3-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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