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Revision tags: v6.6.25, v6.6.24, v6.6.23
# 32e47502 17-Mar-2024 John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>

init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE

commit 4624b346cf67400ef46a31771011fb798dd2f999 upstream.

If initrd data is larger than 2Gb, we'll eventually fail to write to the
/initrd.image file when

init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE

commit 4624b346cf67400ef46a31771011fb798dd2f999 upstream.

If initrd data is larger than 2Gb, we'll eventually fail to write to the
/initrd.image file when we hit that limit, unless O_LARGEFILE is set.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240317221522.896040-1-jsperbeck@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.6.25, v6.6.24, v6.6.23
# 32e47502 17-Mar-2024 John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>

init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE

commit 4624b346cf67400ef46a31771011fb798dd2f999 upstream.

If initrd data is larger than 2Gb, we'll eventually fail to write to the
/initrd.image file when

init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE

commit 4624b346cf67400ef46a31771011fb798dd2f999 upstream.

If initrd data is larger than 2Gb, we'll eventually fail to write to the
/initrd.image file when we hit that limit, unless O_LARGEFILE is set.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240317221522.896040-1-jsperbeck@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.6.16, v6.6.15, v6.6.14, v6.6.13, v6.6.12, v6.6.11, v6.6.10, v6.6.9, v6.6.8, v6.6.7, v6.6.6, v6.6.5, v6.6.4, v6.6.3, v6.6.2, v6.5.11, v6.6.1, v6.5.10, v6.6, v6.5.9, v6.5.8, v6.5.7, v6.5.6, v6.5.5, v6.5.4, v6.5.3, v6.5.2, v6.1.51, v6.5.1, v6.1.50, v6.5, v6.1.49, v6.1.48, v6.1.46, v6.1.45, v6.1.44, v6.1.43, v6.1.42, v6.1.41, v6.1.40, v6.1.39, v6.1.38, v6.1.37
# 527ed4f7 30-Jun-2023 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>

mm: remove arguments of show_mem()

All callers of show_mem() pass 0 and NULL, so we can remove the two
arguments by directly calling __show_mem(0, NULL, MAX_NR_ZONES - 1) in
show_mem().

Link: https

mm: remove arguments of show_mem()

All callers of show_mem() pass 0 and NULL, so we can remove the two
arguments by directly calling __show_mem(0, NULL, MAX_NR_ZONES - 1) in
show_mem().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230630062253.189440-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.1.36, v6.4, v6.1.35, v6.1.34, v6.1.33, v6.1.32, v6.1.31, v6.1.30, v6.1.29, v6.1.28, v6.1.27, v6.1.26, v6.3, v6.1.25, v6.1.24, v6.1.23, v6.1.22, v6.1.21
# 735faf92 20-Mar-2023 Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>

init/initramfs: Fix argument forwarding to panic() in panic_show_mem()

Forwarding variadic argument lists can't be done by passing a va_list
to a function with signature foo(...) (as panic() has). I

init/initramfs: Fix argument forwarding to panic() in panic_show_mem()

Forwarding variadic argument lists can't be done by passing a va_list
to a function with signature foo(...) (as panic() has). It ends up
interpreting the va_list itself as a single argument instead of
iterating it. printf() happily accepts it of course, leading to corrupt
output.

Convert panic_show_mem() to a macro to allow forwarding the arguments.
The function is trivial enough that it's easier than trying to introduce
a vpanic() variant.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v6.1.20, v6.1.19, v6.1.18, v6.1.17, v6.1.16, v6.1.15, v6.1.14, v6.1.13, v6.2, v6.1.12, v6.1.11, v6.1.10, v6.1.9, v6.1.8, v6.1.7
# f3296f80 14-Jan-2023 Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

initramfs: use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()

strtobool() is the same as kstrtobool(). However, the latter is more used
within the kernel.

In order to remove strtobool() and slightly simplify

initramfs: use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()

strtobool() is the same as kstrtobool(). However, the latter is more used
within the kernel.

In order to remove strtobool() and slightly simplify kstrtox.h, switch to
the other function name.

While at it, include the corresponding header file (<linux/kstrtox.h>)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2597e80cb7059ec6ad63a01b77d7c944dcc99195.1673716768.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: wuchi <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>
Cc: XU pengfei <xupengfei@nfschina.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.1.6, v6.1.5, v6.0.19, v6.0.18, v6.1.4, v6.1.3, v6.0.17, v6.1.2, v6.0.16, v6.1.1, v6.0.15, v6.0.14, v6.0.13, v6.1, v6.0.12, v6.0.11, v6.0.10, v5.15.80, v6.0.9, v5.15.79, v6.0.8, v5.15.78, v6.0.7, v5.15.77, v5.15.76, v6.0.6, v6.0.5, v5.15.75, v6.0.4
# 4197530b 26-Oct-2022 XU pengfei <xupengfei@nfschina.com>

initramfs: remove unnecessary (void*) conversion

Remove unnecessary void* type casting.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026080517.3221-1-xupengfei@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: XU pengfei <xupen

initramfs: remove unnecessary (void*) conversion

Remove unnecessary void* type casting.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026080517.3221-1-xupengfei@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: XU pengfei <xupengfei@nfschina.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: wuchi <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.0.3, v6.0.2, v5.15.74, v5.15.73, v6.0.1, v5.15.72, v6.0, v5.15.71, v5.15.70, v5.15.69, v5.15.68, v5.15.67, v5.15.66, v5.15.65, v5.15.64
# 199cda13 27-Aug-2022 wuchi <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>

initramfs: mark my_inptr as __initdata

As my_inptr is only used in __init function unpack_to_rootfs(), mark it as
__initdata to allow it be freed after boot.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2022082

initramfs: mark my_inptr as __initdata

As my_inptr is only used in __init function unpack_to_rootfs(), mark it as
__initdata to allow it be freed after boot.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220827071116.83078-1-wuchi.zero@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: wuchi <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15.63, v5.15.62, v5.15.61, v5.15.60, v5.15.59, v5.19, v5.15.58, v5.15.57, v5.15.56, v5.15.55, v5.15.54, v5.15.53, v5.15.52, v5.15.51, v5.15.50, v5.15.49, v5.15.48, v5.15.47, v5.15.46, v5.15.45, v5.15.44, v5.15.43, v5.15.42, v5.18, v5.15.41, v5.15.40, v5.15.39
# 800c24dc 09-May-2022 David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>

initramfs: support cpio extraction with file checksums

Add support for extraction of checksum-enabled "070702" cpio archives,
specified in Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst.

initramfs: support cpio extraction with file checksums

Add support for extraction of checksum-enabled "070702" cpio archives,
specified in Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst.
Fail extraction if the calculated file data checksum doesn't match the
value carried in the header.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-7-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 1274aea1 09-May-2022 David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>

initramfs: add INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option

initramfs cpio mtime preservation, as implemented in commit 889d51a10712
("initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images")

initramfs: add INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option

initramfs cpio mtime preservation, as implemented in commit 889d51a10712
("initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images"),
uses a linked list to defer directory mtime processing until after all
other items in the cpio archive have been processed. This is done to
ensure that parent directory mtimes aren't overwritten via subsequent
child creation.

The lkml link below indicates that the mtime retention use case was for
embedded devices with applications running exclusively out of initramfs,
where the 32-bit mtime value provided a rough file version identifier.
Linux distributions which discard an extracted initramfs immediately after
the root filesystem has been mounted may want to avoid the unnecessary
overhead.

This change adds a new INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option, which can
be used to disable on-by-default mtime retention and in turn speed up
initramfs extraction, particularly for cpio archives with large directory
counts.

Benchmarks with a one million directory cpio archive extracted 20 times
demonstrated:
mean extraction time (s) std dev
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME=y 3.808 0.006
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME unset 3.056 0.004

The above extraction times were measured using ftrace (initcall_finish -
initcall_start) values for populate_rootfs() with initramfs_async
disabled.

[ddiss@suse.de: rebase atop dir_entry.name flexible array member and drop separate initramfs_mtime.h header]
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/424
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-4-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# fcb7aedd 09-May-2022 David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>

initramfs: make dir_entry.name a flexible array member

dir_entry.name is currently allocated via a separate kstrdup(). Change it
to a flexible array member and allocate it along with struct dir_ent

initramfs: make dir_entry.name a flexible array member

dir_entry.name is currently allocated via a separate kstrdup(). Change it
to a flexible array member and allocate it along with struct dir_entry.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-3-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# da028e4c 09-May-2022 David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>

initramfs: refactor do_header() cpio magic checks

Patch series "initramfs: "crc" cpio format and INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME", v7.

This patchset does some minor initramfs refactoring and allows cpio e

initramfs: refactor do_header() cpio magic checks

Patch series "initramfs: "crc" cpio format and INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME", v7.

This patchset does some minor initramfs refactoring and allows cpio entry
mtime preservation to be disabled via a new Kconfig
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME option.

Patches 4/6 to 6/6 implement support for creation and extraction of "crc"
cpio archives, which carry file data checksums. Basic tests for this
functionality can be found at https://github.com/rapido-linux/rapido/pull/163


This patch (of 6):

do_header() is called for each cpio entry and fails if the first six bytes
don't match "newc" magic. The magic check includes a special case error
message if POSIX.1 ASCII (cpio -H odc) magic is detected. This special
case POSIX.1 check can be nested under the "newc" mismatch code path to
avoid calling memcmp() twice in a non-error case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-1-ddiss@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-2-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15.38, v5.15.37, v5.15.36, v5.15.35, v5.15.34
# 68d85f0a 11-Apr-2022 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process

It is silly for user_mode_thread to leave PF_KTHREAD set
on the resulting task. Update the init process so that
it does not care if PF_KTH

init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process

It is silly for user_mode_thread to leave PF_KTHREAD set
on the resulting task. Update the init process so that
it does not care if PF_KTHREAD is set or not.

Ensure do_populate_rootfs flushes all delayed fput work by calling
task_work_run. In the rare instance that async_schedule_domain calls
do_populate_rootfs synchronously it is possible do_populate_rootfs
will be called directly from the init process. At which point fput
will call "task_work_add(current, ..., TWA_RESUME)". The files on the
initramfs need to be completely put before we attempt to exec them
(which is before the code enters userspace). So call task_work_run
just in case there are any pending fput operations.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-5-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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Revision tags: v5.15.33, v5.15.32, v5.15.31, v5.17, v5.15.30, v5.15.29, v5.15.28, v5.15.27, v5.15.26, v5.15.25, v5.15.24, v5.15.23, v5.15.22, v5.15.21, v5.15.20, v5.15.19, v5.15.18, v5.15.17, v5.4.173, v5.15.16, v5.15.15, v5.16, v5.15.10, v5.15.9, v5.15.8, v5.15.7, v5.15.6, v5.15.5, v5.15.4, v5.15.3, v5.15.2, v5.15.1
# 4421cca0 05-Nov-2021 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

memblock: use memblock_free for freeing virtual pointers

Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counte

memblock: use memblock_free for freeing virtual pointers

Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.

@@
identifier vaddr;
expression size;
@@
(
- memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
+ memblock_free(vaddr, size);
|
- memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
+ memblock_free(vaddr, size);
)

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Shahab Vahedi <Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 3ecc6834 05-Nov-2021 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

memblock: rename memblock_free to memblock_phys_free

Since memblock_free() operates on a physical range, make its name
reflect it and rename it to memblock_phys_free(), so it will be a
logical count

memblock: rename memblock_free to memblock_phys_free

Since memblock_free() operates on a physical range, make its name
reflect it and rename it to memblock_phys_free(), so it will be a
logical counterpart to memblock_phys_alloc().

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch:

@@
expression addr;
expression size;
@@
- memblock_free(addr, size);
+ memblock_phys_free(addr, size);

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-6-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Shahab Vahedi <Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15, v5.14.14, v5.14.13, v5.14.12, v5.14.11, v5.14.10, v5.14.9, v5.14.8, v5.14.7, v5.14.6, v5.10.67, v5.10.66, v5.14.5, v5.14.4, v5.10.65, v5.14.3, v5.10.64, v5.14.2, v5.10.63
# b234ed6d 07-Sep-2021 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()

Currently, usermodehelper is enabled right before PID1 starts going
through the initcalls. However, any call of a usermodehelper from a
pure_,

init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()

Currently, usermodehelper is enabled right before PID1 starts going
through the initcalls. However, any call of a usermodehelper from a
pure_, core_, postcore_, arch_, subsys_ or fs_ initcall is futile, as
there is no filesystem contents yet.

Up until commit e7cb072eb988 ("init/initramfs.c: do unpacking
asynchronously"), such calls, whether via some request_module(), a
legacy uevent "/sbin/hotplug" notification or something else, would
just fail silently with (presumably) -ENOENT from
kernel_execve(). However, that commit introduced the
wait_for_initramfs() synchronization hook which must be called from
the usermodehelper exec path right before the kernel_execve, in order
that request_module() et al done from *after* rootfs_initcall()
time (i.e. device_ and late_ initcalls) would continue to find a
populated initramfs as they used to.

Any call of wait_for_initramfs() done before the unpacking has been
scheduled (i.e. before rootfs_initcall time) must just return
immediately [and let the caller find an empty file system] in order
not to deadlock the machine. I mistakenly thought, and my limited
testing confirmed, that there were no such calls, so I added a
pr_warn_once() in wait_for_initramfs(). It turns out that one can
indeed hit request_module() as well as kobject_uevent_env() during
those early init calls, leading to a user-visible warning in the
kernel log emitted consistently for certain configurations.

We could just remove the pr_warn_once(), but I think it's better to
postpone enabling the usermodehelper framework until there is at least
some chance of finding the executable. That is also a little more
efficient in that a lot of work done in umh.c will be elided. However,
it does change the error seen by those early callers from -ENOENT to
-EBUSY, so there is a risk of a regression if any caller care about
the exact error value.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210728134638.329060-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Fixes: e7cb072eb988 ("init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Goncalves <bgoncalv@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.14.1, v5.10.62, v5.14, v5.10.61, v5.10.60, v5.10.53, v5.10.52, v5.10.51, v5.10.50, v5.10.49, v5.13, v5.10.46, v5.10.43, v5.10.42, v5.10.41, v5.10.40, v5.10.39, v5.4.119, v5.10.36, v5.10.35
# e7cb072e 06-May-2021 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously

Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3.

These two patches are independent, but better-together.

The second is a r

init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously

Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3.

These two patches are independent, but better-together.

The second is a rather trivial patch that simply allows the developer to
change "/sbin/modprobe" to something else - e.g. the empty string, so
that all request_module() during early boot return -ENOENT early, without
even spawning a usermode helper, needlessly synchronizing with the
initramfs unpacking.

The first patch delegates decompressing the initramfs to a worker thread,
allowing do_initcalls() in main.c to proceed to the device_ and late_
initcalls without waiting for that decompression (and populating of
rootfs) to finish. Obviously, some of those later calls may rely on the
initramfs being available, so I've added synchronization points in the
firmware loader and usermodehelper paths - there might be other places
that would need this, but so far no one has been able to think of any
places I have missed.

There's not much to win if most of the functionality needed during boot is
only available as modules. But systems with a custom-made .config and
initramfs can boot faster, partly due to utilizing more than one cpu
earlier, partly by avoiding known-futile modprobe calls (which would still
trigger synchronization with the initramfs unpacking, thus eliminating
most of the first benefit).

This patch (of 2):

Most of the boot process doesn't actually need anything from the
initramfs, until of course PID1 is to be executed. So instead of doing
the decompressing and populating of the initramfs synchronously in
populate_rootfs() itself, push that off to a worker thread.

This is primarily motivated by an embedded ppc target, where unpacking
even the rather modest sized initramfs takes 0.6 seconds, which is long
enough that the external watchdog becomes unhappy that it doesn't get
attention soon enough. By doing the initramfs decompression in a worker
thread, we get to do the device_initcalls and hence start petting the
watchdog much sooner.

Normal desktops might benefit as well. On my mostly stock Ubuntu kernel,
my initramfs is a 26M xz-compressed blob, decompressing to around 126M.
That takes almost two seconds:

[ 0.201454] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 1.976633] Freeing initrd memory: 29416K

Before this patch, these lines occur consecutively in dmesg. With this
patch, the timestamps on these two lines is roughly the same as above, but
with 172 lines inbetween - so more than one cpu has been kept busy doing
work that would otherwise only happen after the populate_rootfs()
finished.

Should one of the initcalls done after rootfs_initcall time (i.e., device_
and late_ initcalls) need something from the initramfs (say, a kernel
module or a firmware blob), it will simply wait for the initramfs
unpacking to be done before proceeding, which should in theory make this
completely safe.

But if some driver pokes around in the filesystem directly and not via one
of the official kernel interfaces (i.e. request_firmware*(),
call_usermodehelper*) that theory may not hold - also, I certainly might
have missed a spot when sprinkling wait_for_initramfs(). So there is an
escape hatch in the form of an initramfs_async= command line parameter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.10.34, v5.4.116, v5.10.33, v5.12, v5.10.32, v5.10.31, v5.10.30, v5.10.27, v5.10.26, v5.10.25, v5.10.24, v5.10.23, v5.10.22, v5.10.21, v5.10.20, v5.10.19, v5.4.101
# dd23e809 25-Feb-2021 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

initramfs: panic with memory information

On systems with large amounts of reserved memory we may fail to
successfully complete unpack_to_rootfs() and be left with:

Kernel panic - not syncing: writ

initramfs: panic with memory information

On systems with large amounts of reserved memory we may fail to
successfully complete unpack_to_rootfs() and be left with:

Kernel panic - not syncing: write error

this is not too helpful to understand what happened, so let's wrap the
panic() calls with a surrounding show_mem() such that we have a chance of
understanding the memory conditions leading to these allocation failures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace macro with C function]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210114231517.1854379-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.10.18, v5.10.17, v5.11, v5.10.16, v5.10.15, v5.10.14
# c72160fe 14-Jan-2021 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>

initramfs: Provide a common initrd reserve function

Some architectures(eg, ARM and riscv) have similar logic to
check and reserve the memory of initrd, let's provide a common
function reserve_initrd

initramfs: Provide a common initrd reserve function

Some architectures(eg, ARM and riscv) have similar logic to
check and reserve the memory of initrd, let's provide a common
function reserve_initrd_mem() to reduce duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>

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Revision tags: v5.10
# 55d5b7dd 11-Dec-2020 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

initramfs: fix clang build failure

There is only one function in init/initramfs.c that is in the .text
section, and it is marked __weak. When building with clang-12 and the
integrated assembler, th

initramfs: fix clang build failure

There is only one function in init/initramfs.c that is in the .text
section, and it is marked __weak. When building with clang-12 and the
integrated assembler, this leads to a bug with recordmcount:

./scripts/recordmcount "init/initramfs.o"
Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
init/initramfs.o: failed

I'm not quite sure what exactly goes wrong, but I notice that this
function is only ever called from an __init function, and normally
inlined. Marking it __init as well is clearly correct and it leads to
recordmcount no longer complaining.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201204165742.3815221-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.8.17, v5.8.16, v5.8.15, v5.9, v5.8.14, v5.8.13, v5.8.12, v5.8.11, v5.8.10, v5.8.9, v5.8.8, v5.8.7
# 7b81ce7c 04-Sep-2020 Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

init: fix error check in clean_path()

init_stat() returns 0 on success, same as vfs_lstat(). When it replaced
vfs_lstat(), the '!' was dropped.

Fixes: 716308a5331b ("init: add an init_stat helper"

init: fix error check in clean_path()

init_stat() returns 0 on success, same as vfs_lstat(). When it replaced
vfs_lstat(), the '!' was dropped.

Fixes: 716308a5331b ("init: add an init_stat helper")
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.8.6, v5.4.62, v5.8.5, v5.8.4, v5.4.61, v5.8.3, v5.4.60, v5.8.2, v5.4.59, v5.8.1, v5.4.58, v5.4.57, v5.4.56, v5.8, v5.7.12, v5.4.55, v5.7.11, v5.4.54, v5.7.10, v5.4.53
# 235e5793 21-Jul-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

init: add an init_utimes helper

Add a simple helper to set timestamps with a kernel space file name and
switch the early init code over to it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 716308a5 22-Jul-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

init: add an init_stat helper

Add a simple helper to stat with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 5fee64fc 22-Jul-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

init: add an init_mknod helper

Add a simple helper to mknod with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mknod.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hell

init: add an init_mknod helper

Add a simple helper to mknod with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mknod.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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# 83ff98c3 22-Jul-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

init: add an init_mkdir helper

Add a simple helper to mkdir with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mkdir.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hell

init: add an init_mkdir helper

Add a simple helper to mkdir with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mkdir.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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# cd3acb6a 22-Jul-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

init: add an init_symlink helper

Add a simple helper to symlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_symlink.

Signed-off-by: Christop

init: add an init_symlink helper

Add a simple helper to symlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_symlink.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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