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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst6
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/initrd.h2
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h1
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts.c11
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts.h18
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts_initrd.c107
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts_rd.c24
9 files changed, 23 insertions, 160 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index a8d0afde7f85..f67591615a6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3437,8 +3437,6 @@ Kernel parameters
If there are multiple matching configurations changing
the same attribute, the last one is used.
- load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
-
lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
Format: <integer>
@@ -4444,8 +4442,10 @@ Kernel parameters
Note that this argument takes precedence over
the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
- noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
- initial RAM disk.
+ noinitrd [Deprecated,RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
+ initial RAM disk. Currently this parameter applies to
+ initrd only, not to initramfs. But it applies to both
+ in EFI mode.
nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
remapping.
@@ -5402,8 +5402,6 @@ Kernel parameters
Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
statistical time based profiling.
- prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
-
prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
@@ -5460,7 +5458,7 @@ Kernel parameters
ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
- ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
+ ramdisk_start= [Deprecated,RAM] RAM disk image start address
random.trust_cpu=off
[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 239da22c4e28..bb577fac76a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1235,12 +1235,6 @@ that support this feature.
== ===========================================================================
-real-root-dev
-=============
-
-See Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst.
-
-
reboot-cmd (SPARC only)
=======================
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
index 2227f86100ad..4d720001c12e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ CONFIG_ASSABET_NEPONSET=y
CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0x80000
CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0xc1000000
CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM=y
-CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttySA0,38400n8 cpufreq=221200 rw root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sa1100:512K(boot),1M(kernel),2560K(initrd),4M(root) load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 mem=32M noinitrd initrd=0xc0800000,3M"
+CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttySA0,38400n8 cpufreq=221200 rw root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sa1100:512K(boot),1M(kernel),2560K(initrd),4M(root) mem=32M noinitrd initrd=0xc0800000,3M"
CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
diff --git a/include/linux/initrd.h b/include/linux/initrd.h
index f1a1f4c92ded..7e5d26c8136f 100644
--- a/include/linux/initrd.h
+++ b/include/linux/initrd.h
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_INITRD_H
#define __LINUX_INITRD_H
-#define INITRD_MINOR 250 /* shouldn't collide with /dev/ram* too soon ... */
-
/* starting block # of image */
extern int rd_image_start;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
index 63d1464cb71c..1c7fe0f4dca4 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ enum
KERN_DOMAINNAME=8, /* string: domainname */
KERN_PANIC=15, /* int: panic timeout */
- KERN_REALROOTDEV=16, /* real root device to mount after initrd */
KERN_SPARC_REBOOT=21, /* reboot command on Sparc */
KERN_CTLALTDEL=22, /* int: allow ctl-alt-del to reboot */
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index defbbf1d55f7..9c8a547075a7 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -34,13 +34,6 @@ static int root_wait;
dev_t ROOT_DEV;
-static int __init load_ramdisk(char *str)
-{
- pr_warn("ignoring the deprecated load_ramdisk= option\n");
- return 1;
-}
-__setup("load_ramdisk=", load_ramdisk);
-
static int __init readonly(char *str)
{
if (*str)
@@ -484,13 +477,11 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
if (saved_root_name[0])
ROOT_DEV = parse_root_device(saved_root_name);
- if (initrd_load(saved_root_name))
- goto out;
+ initrd_load();
if (root_wait)
wait_for_root(saved_root_name);
mount_root(saved_root_name);
-out:
devtmpfs_mount();
init_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
init_chroot(".");
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.h b/init/do_mounts.h
index 6069ea3eb80d..a386ee5314c9 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.h
+++ b/init/do_mounts.h
@@ -23,25 +23,15 @@ static inline __init int create_dev(char *name, dev_t dev)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
-
-int __init rd_load_disk(int n);
-int __init rd_load_image(char *from);
-
+int __init rd_load_image(void);
#else
-
-static inline int rd_load_disk(int n) { return 0; }
-static inline int rd_load_image(char *from) { return 0; }
-
+static inline int rd_load_image(void) { return 0; }
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
-bool __init initrd_load(char *root_device_name);
+void __init initrd_load(void);
#else
-static inline bool initrd_load(char *root_device_name)
-{
- return false;
- }
-
+static inline void initrd_load(void) { }
#endif
/* Ensure that async file closing finished to prevent spurious errors. */
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index f6867bad0d78..892e69ab41c4 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -2,45 +2,20 @@
#include <linux/unistd.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/minix_fs.h>
-#include <linux/romfs_fs.h>
#include <linux/initrd.h>
-#include <linux/sched.h>
-#include <linux/freezer.h>
-#include <linux/kmod.h>
-#include <uapi/linux/mount.h>
#include "do_mounts.h"
unsigned long initrd_start, initrd_end;
int initrd_below_start_ok;
-static unsigned int real_root_dev; /* do_proc_dointvec cannot handle kdev_t */
static int __initdata mount_initrd = 1;
phys_addr_t phys_initrd_start __initdata;
unsigned long phys_initrd_size __initdata;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
-static const struct ctl_table kern_do_mounts_initrd_table[] = {
- {
- .procname = "real-root-dev",
- .data = &real_root_dev,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
- },
-};
-
-static __init int kernel_do_mounts_initrd_sysctls_init(void)
-{
- register_sysctl_init("kernel", kern_do_mounts_initrd_table);
- return 0;
-}
-late_initcall(kernel_do_mounts_initrd_sysctls_init);
-#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
-
static int __init no_initrd(char *str)
{
+ pr_warn("noinitrd option is deprecated and will be removed soon\n");
mount_initrd = 0;
return 1;
}
@@ -70,85 +45,19 @@ static int __init early_initrd(char *p)
}
early_param("initrd", early_initrd);
-static int __init init_linuxrc(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new)
-{
- ksys_unshare(CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES);
- console_on_rootfs();
- /* move initrd over / and chdir/chroot in initrd root */
- init_chdir("/root");
- init_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
- init_chroot(".");
- ksys_setsid();
- return 0;
-}
-
-static void __init handle_initrd(char *root_device_name)
-{
- struct subprocess_info *info;
- static char *argv[] = { "linuxrc", NULL, };
- extern char *envp_init[];
- int error;
-
- pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed soon.\n");
-
- real_root_dev = new_encode_dev(ROOT_DEV);
- create_dev("/dev/root.old", Root_RAM0);
- /* mount initrd on rootfs' /root */
- mount_root_generic("/dev/root.old", root_device_name,
- root_mountflags & ~MS_RDONLY);
- init_mkdir("/old", 0700);
- init_chdir("/old");
-
- info = call_usermodehelper_setup("/linuxrc", argv, envp_init,
- GFP_KERNEL, init_linuxrc, NULL, NULL);
- if (!info)
- return;
- call_usermodehelper_exec(info, UMH_WAIT_PROC|UMH_FREEZABLE);
-
- /* move initrd to rootfs' /old */
- init_mount("..", ".", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
- /* switch root and cwd back to / of rootfs */
- init_chroot("..");
-
- if (new_decode_dev(real_root_dev) == Root_RAM0) {
- init_chdir("/old");
- return;
- }
-
- init_chdir("/");
- ROOT_DEV = new_decode_dev(real_root_dev);
- mount_root(root_device_name);
-
- printk(KERN_NOTICE "Trying to move old root to /initrd ... ");
- error = init_mount("/old", "/root/initrd", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
- if (!error)
- printk("okay\n");
- else {
- if (error == -ENOENT)
- printk("/initrd does not exist. Ignored.\n");
- else
- printk("failed\n");
- printk(KERN_NOTICE "Unmounting old root\n");
- init_umount("/old", MNT_DETACH);
- }
-}
-
-bool __init initrd_load(char *root_device_name)
+void __init initrd_load(void)
{
if (mount_initrd) {
create_dev("/dev/ram", Root_RAM0);
/*
- * Load the initrd data into /dev/ram0. Execute it as initrd
- * unless /dev/ram0 is supposed to be our actual root device,
- * in that case the ram disk is just set up here, and gets
- * mounted in the normal path.
+ * Load the initrd data into /dev/ram0.
*/
- if (rd_load_image("/initrd.image") && ROOT_DEV != Root_RAM0) {
- init_unlink("/initrd.image");
- handle_initrd(root_device_name);
- return true;
+ if (rd_load_image()) {
+ pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed in January 2027; "
+ "use initramfs instead or (as a last resort) /sys/firmware/initrd; "
+ "see section \"Workaround\" in "
+ "https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251010094047.3111495-1-safinaskar@gmail.com\n");
}
}
init_unlink("/initrd.image");
- return false;
}
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
index eddbe5cb0413..48bfab2fc62f 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
@@ -18,17 +18,11 @@
static struct file *in_file, *out_file;
static loff_t in_pos, out_pos;
-static int __init prompt_ramdisk(char *str)
-{
- pr_warn("ignoring the deprecated prompt_ramdisk= option\n");
- return 1;
-}
-__setup("prompt_ramdisk=", prompt_ramdisk);
-
int __initdata rd_image_start; /* starting block # of image */
static int __init ramdisk_start_setup(char *str)
{
+ pr_warn("ramdisk_start= option is deprecated and will be removed soon\n");
return kstrtoint(str, 0, &rd_image_start) == 0;
}
__setup("ramdisk_start=", ramdisk_start_setup);
@@ -183,7 +177,7 @@ static unsigned long nr_blocks(struct file *file)
return i_size_read(inode) >> 10;
}
-int __init rd_load_image(char *from)
+int __init rd_load_image(void)
{
int res = 0;
unsigned long rd_blocks, devblocks, nr_disks;
@@ -197,7 +191,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from)
if (IS_ERR(out_file))
goto out;
- in_file = filp_open(from, O_RDONLY, 0);
+ in_file = filp_open("/initrd.image", O_RDONLY, 0);
if (IS_ERR(in_file))
goto noclose_input;
@@ -226,10 +220,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from)
/*
* OK, time to copy in the data
*/
- if (strcmp(from, "/initrd.image") == 0)
- devblocks = nblocks;
- else
- devblocks = nr_blocks(in_file);
+ devblocks = nblocks;
if (devblocks == 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR "RAMDISK: could not determine device size\n");
@@ -273,13 +264,6 @@ out:
return res;
}
-int __init rd_load_disk(int n)
-{
- create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV);
- create_dev("/dev/ram", MKDEV(RAMDISK_MAJOR, n));
- return rd_load_image("/dev/root");
-}
-
static int exit_code;
static int decompress_error;