user/sven/linux.git/init/do_mounts.c, branch stable/3.2.y

init: don't try mounting device as nfs root unless type fully matches

2012-05-30T23:43:50Z

commit 377485f6244af255b04d662cf19cddbbc4ae4310 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT

2012-01-26T00:13:14Z

commit 43717c7daebf10b43f12e68512484b3095bb1ba5 upstream. Lukas Razik 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 [ cel: match kernel coding style, add proper patch description ] [ cel: add exponential back-off ] Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Tested-by: Lukas Razik Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID/PARTNROFF=%d support

2011-11-02T23:07:01Z

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 Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

fs: use appropriate printk priority levels

2011-03-23T00:44:10Z

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 Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

name_to_dev_t() must not call __init code

2011-01-03T19:48:11Z

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 Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: mark __user address space on string literals

2010-10-26T23:52:15Z

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 Cc: Phillip Lougher Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6

2010-10-25T20:48:29Z

* '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: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing

2010-09-17T14:54:37Z

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=,wsize= As before, however, no version/protocol negotiation with the server is done. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

do_mounts: only enable PARTUUID for CONFIG_BLOCK

2010-09-17T08:00:46Z

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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe