dect
/
linux-2.6
Archived
13
0
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

init: make initrd/initramfs decompression failure a KERN_EMERG event 

Impact: More consistent behaviour, avoid policy in the kernel

Upgrade/downgrade initrd/initramfs decompression failure from
inconsistently a panic or a KERN_ALERT message to a KERN_EMERG event.
It is, however, possible do design a system which can recover from
this (using the kernel builtin code and/or the internal initramfs),
which means this is policy, not a technical necessity.

A good way to handle this would be to have a panic-level=X option, to
force a panic on a printk above a certain level.  That is a separate
patch, however.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
H. Peter Anvin 2009-01-14 11:28:35 -08:00
parent 23a22d57a8
commit 73310a169a
2 changed files with 9 additions and 5 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

3
init/do_mounts_rd.c
View File

@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ identify_ramdisk_image(int fd, int start_block, decompress_fn *decompressor)
printk(KERN_NOTICE "RAMDISK: %s image found at block %d\n",
compress_name, start_block);
if (!*decompressor)
printk(KERN_CRIT "RAMDISK: %s decompressor not configured!\n",
printk(KERN_EMERG
"RAMDISK: %s decompressor not configured!\n",
compress_name);
nblocks = 0;
goto done;

11
init/initramfs.c
View File

@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
char *err = unpack_to_rootfs(__initramfs_start,
__initramfs_end - __initramfs_start, 0);
if (err)
panic(err);
panic(err); /* Failed to decompress INTERNAL initramfs */
if (initrd_start) {
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
int fd;
@ -554,9 +554,12 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "Unpacking initramfs...");
err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start,
initrd_end - initrd_start, 0);
if (err)
panic(err);
printk(" done\n");
if (err) {
printk(" failed!\n");
printk(KERN_EMERG "%s\n", err);
} else {
printk(" done\n");
}
free_initrd();
#endif
}