kernel/linux.git/drivers/md/dm-init.c, branch v6.6.141

dm init: ensure device probing has finished in dm-mod.waitfor=

2026-05-23T11:03:11+00:00

[ Upstream commit 99a2312f69805f4ba92d98a757625e0300a747ab ] The early_lookup_bdev() function returns successfully when the disk device is present but not necessarily its partitions. In this situation, dm_early_create() fails as the partition block device does not exist yet. In my case, this phenomenon occurs quite often because the device is an SD card with slow reading times, on which kernel takes time to enumerate available partitions. Fortunately, the underlying device is back to "probing" state while enumerating partitions. Waiting for all probing to end is enough to fix this issue. That's also the reason why this problem never occurs with rootwait= parameter: the while loop inside wait_for_root() explicitly waits for probing to be done and then the function calls async_synchronize_full(). These lines were omitted in 035641b, even though the commit says it's based on the rootwait logic... Anyway, calling wait_for_device_probe() after our while loop does the job (it both waits for probing and calls async_synchronize_full). Fixes: 035641b01e72 ("dm init: add dm-mod.waitfor to wait for asynchronously probed block devices") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Gonnet Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

dm init: Handle minors larger than 255

2024-09-12T09:11:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 140ce37fd78a629105377e17842465258a5459ef ] dm_parse_device_entry() simply copies the minor number into dmi.dev, but the dev_t format splits the minor number between the lowest 8 bytes and highest 12 bytes. If the minor number is larger than 255, part of it will end up getting treated as the major number Fix this by checking that the minor number is valid and then encoding it as a dev_t. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

dm: open code dm_get_dev_t in dm_init_init

2023-06-05T16:57:40+00:00

dm_init_init is called from early boot code, and thus lookup_bdev will never succeed. Just open code that call to early_lookup_bdev instead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-19-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm: avoid inline filenames

2023-02-14T19:23:07+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: use fsleep() instead of msleep() for deterministic sleep duration

2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add missing SPDX-License-Indentifiers

2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00

'GPL-2.0-only' is used instead of 'GPL-2.0' because SPDX has deprecated its use. Suggested-by: John Wiele Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm init: add dm-mod.waitfor to wait for asynchronously probed block devices

2022-12-02T22:37:45+00:00

Just calling wait_for_device_probe() is not enough to ensure that asynchronously probed block devices are available (E.G. mmc, usb), so add a "dm-mod.waitfor=[,..,]" parameter to get dm-init to explicitly wait for specific block devices before initializing the tables with logic similar to the rootwait logic that was introduced with commit cc1ed7542c8c ("init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devices"). E.G. with dm-verity on mmc using: dm-mod.waitfor="PARTLABEL=hash-a,PARTLABEL=root-a" [ 0.671671] device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before creating mapped devices [ 0.671679] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=hash-a ... [ 0.710695] mmc0: new HS200 MMC card at address 0001 [ 0.711158] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 3.69 GiB [ 0.715954] mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 1 2.00 MiB [ 0.722085] mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 2 2.00 MiB [ 0.728093] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 3 512 KiB, chardev (249:0) [ 0.738274] mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 [ 0.751282] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=root-a ... [ 0.751306] device-mapper: init: all devices available [ 0.751683] device-mapper: verity: sha256 using implementation "sha256-generic" [ 0.759344] device-mapper: ioctl: dm-0 (vroot) is ready [ 0.766540] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 254:0. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm init: Set file local variable static

2020-08-04T19:51:28+00:00

Declare dm_allowed_targets as static to avoid the warning: drivers/md/dm-init.c:39:12: warning: symbol 'dm_allowed_targets' was not declared. Should it be static? when compiling with C=1. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

docs: device-mapper: move it to the admin-guide

2019-07-15T14:03:01+00:00

The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped disk partitions from the userspace PoV. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-07-09T19:34:26+00:00

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on. - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one on Spectre vulnerabilities. - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I will never understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type. - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4. - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits) docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/ Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used ...