linux-stable.git/init/do_mounts.c, branch v3.17.2

Revert "init: make rootdelay=N consistent with rootwait behaviour"

2014-09-17T15:02:07+00:00

This reverts commit 4dfe694f616e00e6fd83e5bbcd7a3c4d7113493d.

In that, we did:

  Here we move the rootdelay code to be right beside the rootwait code, so
  that their behaviour is consistent.

...which is fine, but in hindsight, perhaps moving the rootwait to be
beside the rootdelay would have been better.  We also indicated:

  It should be noted that in doing so, the actions based on the
  saved_root_name[0] and initrd_load() were previously put on hold by
  rootdelay=N and now currently will not be delayed.  However, I think
  consistent behaviour is more important than matching historical behaviour
  of delaying the above two operations.

But Pavel reported an instance where an ARM target with root on MMC
was failing to mount root, and Russell diagnosed it to the fact that
the call to set ROOT_DEV within the saved_root_name[0] processing
block mentioned above was no longer being delayed.

Rather than moving both wait clauses to the original position of
rootdelay and risking unearthing other possible corner case breakage
at this point in time, we simply revert now and we can revisit
trying the alternate/earlier location in another development cycle.

Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: make rootdelay=N consistent with rootwait behaviour

2014-08-08T22:57:18+00:00

Currently rootdelay=N and rootwait behave differently (aside from the
obvious unbounded wait duration) because they are at different places in
the init sequence.

The difference manifests itself for md devices because the call to
md_run_setup() lives between rootdelay and rootwait, so if you try to use
rootdelay=20 to try and allow a slow RAID0 array to assemble, you get
this:

[    4.526011] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   22.972079] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect

i.e.  you've achieved nothing other than delaying the probing 20s, when
what you wanted was a 20s delay _after_ the probing for md devices was
initiated.

Here we move the rootdelay code to be right beside the rootwait code, so
that their behaviour is consistent.

It should be noted that in doing so, the actions based on the
saved_root_name[0] and initrd_load() were previously put on hold by
rootdelay=N and now currently will not be delayed.  However, I think
consistent behaviour is more important than matching historical behaviour
of delaying the above two operations.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/do_mounts.c: fix comment error

2014-04-03T23:21:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: chishanmingshen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/do_mounts.c: add maj:min syntax comment

2013-11-13T03:09:12+00:00

The name_to_dev_t function has a comment block which lists the supported
syntaxes for the device name.  Add a bullet for the :
syntax, which is already supported in the code

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Capella 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified

2013-09-11T22:59:38+00:00

Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and
use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic
reasons).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Stephen Warren 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jim Cromie 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled

2013-09-11T22:59:37+00:00

Conditionally call the appropriate fs_init function and fill_super
functions.  Add a use once guard to shmem_init() to simply succeed on a
second call.

(Note that IS_ENABLED() is a compile time constant so dead code
elimination removes unused function calls when CONFIG_TMPFS is disabled.)

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Stephen Warren 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jim Cromie 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

initmpfs: move rootfs code from fs/ramfs/ to init/

2013-09-11T22:59:37+00:00

When the rootfs code was a wrapper around ramfs, having them in the same
file made sense.  Now that it can wrap another filesystem type, move it in
with the init code instead.

This also allows a subsequent patch to access rootfstype= command line
arg.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Stephen Warren 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jim Cromie 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

insert missing space in printk line of root_delay

2013-07-03T23:07:45+00:00

Trivial, but it really looks better.

Signed-off-by: Toralf Förster 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

driver-core: constify data for class_find_device()

2013-02-06T20:18:56+00:00

All in-kernel users of class_find_device() don't really need mutable
data for match callback.

In two places (kernel/power/suspend_test.c, drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c)
this patch changes match callbacks to use const search data.

The const is propagated to rtc_class_open() and power_supply_get_by_name()
parameters.

Note that there's a dev reference leak in suspend_test.c that's not
touched in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław 
Acked-by: Grant Likely 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions

2012-11-23T13:28:58+00:00

The MSDOS/MBR partition table includes a 32-bit unique ID, often referred
to as the NT disk signature.  When combined with a partition number within
the table, this can form a unique ID similar in concept to EFI/GPT's
partition UUID.  Constructing and recording this value in struct
partition_meta_info allows MSDOS partitions to be referred to on the
kernel command-line using the following syntax:

root=PARTUUID=0002dd75-01

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Will Drewry 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe