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This is a wrap-up of three patches pending upstream approval.
I'm bundling them because they are interdependent, and it'll be
easier to drop it on rebase later.
1. dm: allow a dm-fs-style device to be shared via dm-ioctl
Integrates feedback from Alisdair, Mike, and Kiyoshi.
Two main changes occur here:
- One function is added which allows for a programmatically created
mapped device to be inserted into the dm-ioctl hash table. This binds
the device to a name and, optional, uuid which is needed by udev and
allows for userspace management of the mapped device.
- dm_table_complete() was extended to handle all of the final
functional changes required for the table to be operational once
called.
2. init: boot to device-mapper targets without an initr*
Add a dm= kernel parameter modeled after the md= parameter from
do_mounts_md. It allows for device-mapper targets to be configured at
boot time for use early in the boot process (as the root device or
otherwise). It also replaces /dev/XXX calls with major:minor opportunistically.
The format is dm="name uuid ro,table line 1,table line 2,...". The
parser expects the comma to be safe to use as a newline substitute but,
otherwise, uses the normal separator of space. Some attempt has been
made to make it forgiving of additional spaces (using skip_spaces()).
A mapped device created during boot will be assigned a minor of 0 and
may be access via /dev/dm-0.
An example dm-linear root with no uuid may look like:
root=/dev/dm-0 dm="lroot none ro, 0 4096 linear /dev/ubdb 0, 4096 4096 linear /dv/ubdc 0"
Once udev is started, /dev/dm-0 will become /dev/mapper/lroot.
Older upstream threads:
http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=127429492521964&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=127429499422096&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=127429493922000&w=2
Latest upstream threads:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104859/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104860/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104861/
Bug: 27175947
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/2020011
Change-Id: I92bd53432a11241228d2e5ac89a3b20d19b05a31
[AmitP: Refactored the original changes based on upstream changes,
commit e52347bd66 ("Documentation/admin-guide: split the kernel parameter list to a separate file")]
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
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Boot time creation of mapped devices
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It is possible to configure a device mapper device to act as the root
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device for your system in two ways.
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The first is to build an initial ramdisk which boots to a minimal
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userspace which configures the device, then pivot_root(8) in to it.
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For simple device mapper configurations, it is possible to boot directly
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using the following kernel command line:
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dm="<name> <uuid> <ro>,table line 1,...,table line n"
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name = the name to associate with the device
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after boot, udev, if used, will use that name to label
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the device node.
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uuid = may be 'none' or the UUID desired for the device.
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ro = may be "ro" or "rw". If "ro", the device and device table will be
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marked read-only.
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Each table line may be as normal when using the dmsetup tool except for
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two variations:
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1. Any use of commas will be interpreted as a newline
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2. Quotation marks cannot be escaped and cannot be used without
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terminating the dm= argument.
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Unless renamed by udev, the device node created will be dm-0 as the
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first minor number for the device-mapper is used during early creation.
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Example
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- Booting to a linear array made up of user-mode linux block devices:
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dm="lroot none 0, 0 4096 linear 98:16 0, 4096 4096 linear 98:32 0" \
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root=/dev/dm-0
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Will boot to a rw dm-linear target of 8192 sectors split across two
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block devices identified by their major:minor numbers. After boot, udev
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will rename this target to /dev/mapper/lroot (depending on the rules).
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No uuid was assigned.
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