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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2023-05-31 14:55:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2023-06-05 10:55:20 -0600 |
| commit | c0c1a7dcb6f5db4500e6574294674213bc24940c (patch) | |
| tree | 56cb7a924407b6d86afcf1a059ef55b1a1438be5 | |
| parent | 3701c600a3e735b9fbac6f7a73e4c086090c97ca (diff) | |
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init: move the nfs/cifs/ram special cases out of name_to_dev_t
The nfs/cifs/ram special case only needs to be parsed once, and only in
the boot code. Move them out of name_to_dev_t and into
prepare_namespace.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-13-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/do_mounts.c | 14 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 9e5bab29685f..457c342d1597 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -5452,7 +5452,12 @@ port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. root= [KNL] Root filesystem - See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. + Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, + see the name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c for + details. + Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial + ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file + system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to mount the root filesystem diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c index d5c06c1546e8..86599faf2bf8 100644 --- a/init/do_mounts.c +++ b/init/do_mounts.c @@ -248,7 +248,6 @@ static dev_t devt_from_devnum(const char *name) * * 1) <hex_major><hex_minor> device number in hexadecimal represents itself * no leading 0x, for example b302. - * 2) /dev/nfs represents Root_NFS (0xff) * 3) /dev/<disk_name> represents the device number of disk * 4) /dev/<disk_name><decimal> represents the device number * of partition - device number of disk plus the partition number @@ -266,7 +265,6 @@ static dev_t devt_from_devnum(const char *name) * a colon. * 9) PARTLABEL=<name> with name being the GPT partition label. * MSDOS partitions do not support labels! - * 10) /dev/cifs represents Root_CIFS (0xfe) * * If name doesn't have fall into the categories above, we return (0,0). * block_class is used to check if something is a disk name. If the disk @@ -275,12 +273,6 @@ static dev_t devt_from_devnum(const char *name) */ dev_t name_to_dev_t(const char *name) { - if (strcmp(name, "/dev/nfs") == 0) - return Root_NFS; - if (strcmp(name, "/dev/cifs") == 0) - return Root_CIFS; - if (strcmp(name, "/dev/ram") == 0) - return Root_RAM0; #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK if (strncmp(name, "PARTUUID=", 9) == 0) return devt_from_partuuid(name + 9); @@ -631,6 +623,12 @@ static dev_t __init parse_root_device(char *root_device_name) if (!strncmp(root_device_name, "mtd", 3) || !strncmp(root_device_name, "ubi", 3)) return Root_Generic; + if (strcmp(root_device_name, "/dev/nfs") == 0) + return Root_NFS; + if (strcmp(root_device_name, "/dev/cifs") == 0) + return Root_CIFS; + if (strcmp(root_device_name, "/dev/ram") == 0) + return Root_RAM0; return name_to_dev_t(root_device_name); } |