linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] um: Fix to call read_initrd after init

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Date:   Wed, 3 May 2017 22:53:44 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        "user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
        <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: Fix to call read_initrd after init_bootmem

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> Since read_initrd() invokes alloc_bootmem() for allocating
> memory to load initrd image, it must be called after init_bootmem.
>
> This makes read_initrd() called directly from setup_arch()
> after init_bootmem() and mem_total_pages().
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/um/kernel/initrd.c  |    4 +---
>  arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c |    6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c b/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c
> index 48bae81..6f6e789 100644
> --- a/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c
> +++ b/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  static char *initrd __initdata = NULL;
>  static int load_initrd(char *filename, void *buf, int size);
>
> -static int __init read_initrd(void)
> +int __init read_initrd(void)
>  {
>         void *area;
>         long long size;
> @@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ static int __init read_initrd(void)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> -__uml_postsetup(read_initrd);
> -
>  static int __init uml_initrd_setup(char *line, int *add)
>  {
>         initrd = line;
> diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c b/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c
> index 4b85acd..64a1fd0 100644
> --- a/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c
> +++ b/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c
> @@ -338,11 +338,17 @@ int __init linux_main(int argc, char **argv)
>         return start_uml();
>  }
>
> +int __init __weak read_initrd(void)
> +{
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
>  void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  {
>         stack_protections((unsigned long) &init_thread_info);
>         setup_physmem(uml_physmem, uml_reserved, physmem_size, highmem);
>         mem_total_pages(physmem_size, iomem_size, highmem);
> +       read_initrd();
>
>         paging_init();
>         strlcpy(boot_command_line, command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
>

Applied.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard