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2012-05-05init: don't try mounting device as nfs root unless type fully matchesSasha Levin
Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root. This would happen for non-NFS devices as well (such as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since mounting the device as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to doing the proper mount: [ 101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. [ 101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18. Commit 6829a048102a ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") introduced retries when mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail and instead it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying, which has revealed the issue this patch fixes. This meant that it would take an additional 90 seconds to boot when we're not using a device type which gets detected in order before NFS. This patch modifies the NFS type check to require device type to be 'Root_NFS' instead of requiring the device to have an UNNAMED_MAJOR major. This makes boot process cleaner since we now won't go through the NFS mounting code at all when the device isn't an NFS root ("/dev/nfs"). Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23init/do_mounts.c: print error code on mount failureBernhard Walle
Printing the error code makes it easier to debug the cause of a mount failure. For example I had the problem that the root file system could not be mounted read-writeable because my SD card was write-protected. Without an error code it looks like the SD card was not detected at all. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds
* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked() NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4 NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling. NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
2012-01-06vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sbAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-05NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOTChuck Lever
Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name> reports that on his SPARC system, booting with an NFS root file system stopped working after commit 56463e50 "NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing." We found that the network switch to which Lukas' client was attached was delaying access to the LAN after the client's NIC driver reported that its link was up. The delay was longer than the timeouts used in the NFS client during mounting. NFSROOT worked for Lukas before commit 56463e50 because in those kernels, the client's first operation was an rpcbind request to determine which port the NFS server was listening on. When that request failed after a long timeout, the client simply selected the default NFS port (2049). By that time the switch was allowing access to the LAN, and the mount succeeded. Neither of these client behaviors is desirable, so reverting 56463e50 is really not a choice. Instead, introduce a mechanism that retries the NFSROOT mount request several times. This is the same tactic that normal user space NFS mounts employ to overcome server and network delays. Signed-off-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name> [ cel: match kernel coding style, add proper patch description ] [ cel: add exponential back-off ] Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Tested-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name> Cc: stable@kernel.org # > 2.6.38 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-11-02init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID/PARTNROFF=%d supportWill Drewry
Expand root=PARTUUID=UUID syntax to support selecting a root partition by integer offset from a known, unique partition. This approach provides similar properties to specifying a device and partition number, but using the UUID as the unique path prior to evaluating the offset. For example, root=PARTUUID=99DE9194-FC15-4223-9192-FC243948F88B/PARTNROFF=1 selects the partition with UUID 99DE.. then select the next partition. This change is motivated by a particular usecase in Chromium OS where the bootloader can easily determine what partition it is on (by UUID) but doesn't perform general partition table walking. That said, support for this model provides a direct mechanism for the user to modify the root partition to boot without specifically needing to extract each UUID or update the bootloader explicitly when the root partition UUID is changed (if it is recreated to be larger, for instance). Pinning to a /boot-style partition UUID allows the arbitrary root partition reconfiguration/modifications with slightly less ambiguity than just [dev][partition] and less stringency than the specific root partition UUID. [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix init sections warning] Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-22fs: use appropriate printk priority levelsMandeep Singh Baines
printk()s without a priority level default to KERN_WARNING. To reduce noise at KERN_WARNING, this patch set the priority level appriopriately for unleveled printks()s. This should be useful to folks that look at dmesg warnings closely. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-03name_to_dev_t() must not call __init codeJan Beulich
The function can't be __init itself (being called from some sysfs handler), and hence none of the functions it calls can be either. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26init: mark __user address space on string literalsNamhyung Kim
When calling syscall service routines in kernel, some of arguments should be user pointers but were missing __user markup on string literals. Add it. Removes some sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-25Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 * 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits) SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred nfs: fix unchecked value Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe Revalidate caches on lock SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code NFS: Readdir plus in v4 NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function NFS: check xdr_decode for errors NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors NFS: readdir with vmapped pages NFS: remove page size checking code NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek NFS: remove readdir plus limit ...
2010-09-17NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsingChuck Lever
Replace duplicate code in NFSROOT for mounting an NFS server on '/' with logic that uses the existing mainline text-based logic in the NFS client. Add documenting comments where appropriate. Note that this means NFSROOT mounts now use the same default settings as v2/v3 mounts done via mount(2) from user space. vers=3,tcp,rsize=<negotiated default>,wsize=<negotiated default> As before, however, no version/protocol negotiation with the server is done. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-17do_mounts: only enable PARTUUID for CONFIG_BLOCKJens Axboe
When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled: init/do_mounts.c:71: error: implicit declaration of function 'dev_to_part' init/do_mounts.c:71: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast init/do_mounts.c:73: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type init/do_mounts.c:76: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type init/do_mounts.c:76: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type init/do_mounts.c:102: error: implicit declaration of function 'part_pack_uuid' init/do_mounts.c:104: error: 'block_class' undeclared (first use in this function) Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16core: match_dev_by_uuid() should not be marked __initJens Axboe
It is also called outside the scope of init functions. Stephen reports: WARNING: init/mounts.o(.text+0x21a): Section mismatch in reference from the function name_to_dev_t() to the function .init.text:match_dev_by_uuid() The function name_to_dev_t() references the function __init match_dev_by_uuid(). This is often because name_to_dev_t lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of match_dev_by_uuid is wrong. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-15init: add support for root devices specified by partition UUIDWill Drewry
This is the third patch in a series which adds support for storing partition metadata, optionally, off of the hd_struct. One major use for that data is being able to resolve partition by other identities than just the index on a block device. Device enumeration varies by platform and there's a benefit to being able to use something like EFI GPT's GUIDs to determine the correct block device and partition to mount as the root. This change adds that support to root= by adding support for the following syntax: root=PARTUUID=hex-uuid Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2009-09-15Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /devKay Sievers
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a device node in devtmpfs. Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time, and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs. Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it. The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still needs to be applied by userspace. If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node when the device goes away. If the device node was created by userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it will no longer be removed by devtmpfs. If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel. With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices. It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust, by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide a working /dev. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warningVegard Nossum
This false positive is due to the fact that do_mount_root() fakes a mount option (which is normally read from userspace), and the kernel unconditionally reads a whole page for the mount option. Hide the false positive by using the new __getname_gfp() with the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-03-31Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.hAl Viro
Don't pull it in sched.h; very few files actually need it and those can include directly. sched.h itself only needs forward declaration of struct fs_struct; Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-02-21Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one placeArjan van de Ven
there's a few places that currently loop over driver_probe_done(), and I'm about to add another one. This patch abstracts it into a helper to reduce duplication. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-07async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel bootArjan van de Ven
Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-06do_mounts: add device info to mount messageMarton Balint
In the past, I used the root=... command line parameter to specify the root filesystem to the kernel. Now it seems that specifying it is not necessary. The kernel detects the root filesystem even if the kernel command line is empty. My root fs is on a raid1 device by the way, and I am not using initrd for the boot process. If the kernel detects the root filesystem somehow, I think it should print out the result of this detection, otherwise I will not know which device has the root filesystem. Or is there an easy way to get this information on a running system? I had a quick look at the /proc and /sys filesystems, but haven't found anything useful there. Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus@fazekas.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-09init: DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT requires explicit root= paramTejun Heo
DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT shuffles SCSI and IDE device numbers and root device number set using rdev become meaningless. Root devices should be explicitly specified using textual names. Warn about it if root can't be found and DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is enabled. Also, add warning to the help text. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-26make init/do_mounts.c:root_device_name staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global root_device_name static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25init/do_mounts.c should #include <linux/initrd.h>Adrian Bunk
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its global code (in this case for rd_doload). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-14do_mounts: allow UBI root device nameAdrian Hunter
Similarly to MTD devices, allow UBI devices. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-05-14block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>Kay Sievers
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access, so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting. This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and broke some users machines :( Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-14Use struct path in fs_structJan Blunck
* Use struct path in fs_struct. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06proper prototype for get_filesystem_list()Adrian Bunk
Ad a proper prototype for migration_init() in include/linux/fs.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: selinux: make mls_compute_sid always polyinstantiate security/selinux: constify function pointer tables and fields security: add a secctx_to_secid() hook security: call security_file_permission from rw_verify_area security: remove security_sb_post_mountroot hook Security: remove security.h include from mm.h Security: remove security_file_mmap hook sparse-warnings (NULL as 0). Security: add get, set, and cloning of superblock security information security/selinux: Add missing "space"
2008-01-24Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devicesKay Sievers
This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks to the disks. /sys/class/block |-- sda -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda |-- sda1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 |-- sda10 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda10 |-- sda5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5 |-- sda6 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6 |-- sda7 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda7 |-- sda8 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda8 |-- sda9 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda9 `-- sr0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 /sys/block/ |-- sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda `-- sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-25security: remove security_sb_post_mountroot hookH. Peter Anvin
The security_sb_post_mountroot() hook is long-since obsolete, and is fundamentally broken: it is never invoked if someone uses initramfs. This is particularly damaging, because the existence of this hook has been used as motivation for not using initramfs. Stephen Smalley confirmed on 2007-07-19 that this hook was originally used by SELinux but can now be safely removed: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118485683612916&w=2 Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-16init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devicesPierre Ossman
Some buses (e.g. USB and MMC) do their scanning of devices in the background, causing a race between them and prepare_namespace(). In order to be able to use these buses without an initrd, we now wait for the device specified in root= to actually show up. If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. In order to not mess with setups that reboot on panic, the feature must be turned on via the command line option "rootwait". [bunk@stusta.de: root_wait can become static] Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem failed to mountDave Gilbert
Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem is not mounted. This helps to track spell'o's and missing drivers. Updated to work with newer kernels. Example output: VFS: Cannot open root device "foobar" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 0800 8388608 sda driver: sd 0801 192748 sda1 0802 8193150 sda2 0810 4194304 sdb driver: sd Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, fix printk warnings] Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Dave Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08init/do_mounts.c: proper prepare_namespace() prototypeAdrian Bunk
Add a proper protype for prepare_namespace() in include/linux/init.h. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-09-30[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]David Howells
Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require the block layer to be present. This patch does the following: (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev support. (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls an item that uses the block layer. This includes: (*) Block I/O tracing. (*) Disk partition code. (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS. (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities - such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this. (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM drivers. (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL. (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book. (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is, however, still used in places, and so is still available. (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and parts of linux/fs.h. (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled. (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set: (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening). (*) Makes some /proc changes: (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs. (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified. (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2. (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so). (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-25Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probeGreg Kroah-Hartman
This adds the infrastructure for drivers to do a threaded probe, and waits at init time for all currently outstanding probes to complete. A new kernel thread will be created when the probe() function for the driver is called, if the multithread_probe bit is set in the driver saying it can support this kind of operation. I have tested this with USB and PCI, and it works, and shaves off a lot of time in the boot process, but there are issues with finding root boot disks, and some USB drivers assume that this can never happen, so it is currently not enabled for any bus type. Individual drivers can enable this right now if they wish, and bus authors can selectivly turn it on as well, once they determine that their subsystem will work properly with it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init codeGreg Kroah-Hartman
This patch removes the devfs code from the init/ directory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-05-30[MTD] Allow alternate JFFS2 mount variant for root filesystem.Joern Engel
With this patch, "root=mtd3" and "root=mtd:foo" work for a JFFS2 rootfs. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
2006-05-15[PATCH] root mount failure: emit filesystems attemptedAndy Whitcroft
When we fail to mount from a valid root device list out the filesystems we have tried to mount it with. This gives the user vital diagnostics as to what is missing from their kernel. For example in the fragment below the kernel does not have CRAMFS compiled into the kernel and yet appears to recognise it at the RAMDISK detect stage. Later the mount fails as we don't have the filesystem. RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 1604KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done. XFS: bad magic number XFS: SB validate failed No filesystem could mount root, tried: reiserfs ext3 ext2 msdos vfat iso9660 jfs xfs Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1) Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26do_mounts.c: Minor ROOT_DEV comment cleanupFlorin Malita
The ROOT_DEV comment is no longer accurate, it now seems to be initialized in init/do_mounts.c. Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24[PATCH] vfs: MS_VERBOSE should be MS_SILENTTheodore Ts'o
The meaning of MS_VERBOSE is backwards; if the bit is set, it really means, "don't be verbose". This is confusing and counter-intuitive. In addition, there is also no way to set the MS_VERBOSE flag in the mount(8) program in util-linux, but interesting, it does define options which would do the right thing if MS_SILENT were defined, which unfortunately we do not: #ifdef MS_SILENT { "quiet", 0, 0, MS_SILENT }, /* be quiet */ { "loud", 0, 1, MS_SILENT }, /* print out messages. */ #endif So the obvious fix is to deprecate the use of MS_VERBOSE and replace it with MS_SILENT. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-02[PATCH] remove driverfs references from init/do_mounts.cRolf Eike Beer
This patch is against 2.6.10, but still applies cleanly. It's just s/driverfs/sysfs/ in this file. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14[PATCH] remove EXPORT_SYMBOL for root_devPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Remove ROOT_DEV after unexporting it in the previous patch, as requested time ago by Christoph Hellwig. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fixAndrew Morton
kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope. mount.h seems like an appropriate choice. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!