linux.git/init/do_mounts.c, branch v3.4-rc2 Linux kernel source tree init/do_mounts.c: print error code on mount failure 2012-03-23T23:58:38+00:00 Bernhard Walle bernhard@bwalle.de 2012-03-23T22:02:28+00:00 0e0cb892a8dac7c76321c899934705e5f0812574 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> 
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>
Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs 2012-01-10T22:57:40+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2012-01-10T22:57:40+00:00 57eccf1c2acae2fcb748730881ba75643fc31c81 * '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 
* '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
vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb 2012-01-07T04:16:53+00:00 Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk 2011-12-07T23:16:57+00:00 d8c9584ea2a92879f471fd3a2be3af6c534fb035 Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT 2012-01-05T15:42:39+00:00 Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com 2011-12-05T20:40:30+00:00 43717c7daebf10b43f12e68512484b3095bb1ba5 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> 
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>
init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID/PARTNROFF=%d support 2011-11-02T23:07:01+00:00 Will Drewry wad@chromium.org 2011-11-02T20:38:59+00:00 79975f1327850ef198ada994c2fc44b7d1ea8935 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> 
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>
Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00 Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi 2011-03-31T01:57:33+00:00 25985edcedea6396277003854657b5f3cb31a628 Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> 
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
fs: use appropriate printk priority levels 2011-03-23T00:44:10+00:00 Mandeep Singh Baines msb@chromium.org 2011-03-22T23:33:54+00:00 80cdc6dae76ea67d2b21bdca8df17ef47251eb8b 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> 
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>
name_to_dev_t() must not call __init code 2011-01-03T19:48:11+00:00 Jan Beulich JBeulich@novell.com 2011-01-03T15:07:02+00:00 a1cf11d8f673a3ad91012c5da96beed06ecefde1 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> 
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>
init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26T23:52:15+00:00 Namhyung Kim namhyung@gmail.com 2010-10-26T21:22:42+00:00 562f5e638de4ef451226552fe8dd7847bacea24e 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> 
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>
Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 2010-10-25T20:48:29+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2010-10-25T20:48:29+00:00 74eb94b218d087798a52c0b4f1379b635287a4b8 * '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 ... 
* '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
  ...