kernel/linux.git/drivers/md/dm-init.c, branch v7.0-rc7

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

dm init: Handle minors larger than 255

2024-07-02T18:53:41+00:00

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

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