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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2013-09-11 14:26:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:59:38 -0700
commit6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53 (patch)
treef88bf08f0897703bb0d07020e4f921494bd7a434 /init
parent16203a7a9422315bc929461503e3a046459ea5ff (diff)
downloadlinux-6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53.tar.gz
initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and
use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic
reasons).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index e27908b949d4..a51cddc2ff8c 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -591,16 +591,20 @@ out:
 	sys_chroot(".");
 }
 
+static bool is_tmpfs;
 static struct dentry *rootfs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)
 {
 	static unsigned long once;
+	void *fill = ramfs_fill_super;
 
 	if (test_and_set_bit(0, &once))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 
-	return mount_nodev(fs_type, flags, data,
-		IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS) ? shmem_fill_super : ramfs_fill_super);
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS) && is_tmpfs)
+		fill = shmem_fill_super;
+
+	return mount_nodev(fs_type, flags, data, fill);
 }
 
 static struct file_system_type rootfs_fs_type = {
@@ -616,10 +620,13 @@ int __init init_rootfs(void)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS))
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS) && !saved_root_name[0] &&
+		(!root_fs_names || strstr(root_fs_names, "tmpfs"))) {
 		err = shmem_init();
-	else
+		is_tmpfs = true;
+	} else {
 		err = init_ramfs_fs();
+	}
 
 	if (err)
 		unregister_filesystem(&rootfs_fs_type);