Hi Rob,
I found that next-20170522 fails to boot on arm64 machine with the
following log:
[...]
[4.179509] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1088K
Loading, please wait...
mount: mounting udev on /dev failed: Device or resource busy
W: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running
/scripts/local-top ... done.
chvt: can't open console
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
chvt: can't open console
ALERT! /dev/sda does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
BusyBox v1.21.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
Bisect points to your patch (attached below). If I revert it, everything
becomes fine. If you need to know something more about my environment,
feel free to ask me.
Yury
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:05:03PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> From: Rob Landley <r...@landley.net>
>
> Make initramfs honor CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT, move /dev/console
> open after devtmpfs mount, and update help text.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <r...@landley.net>
> ---
>
> drivers/base/Kconfig | 14 ++++----------
> init/main.c | 15 +++++++++------
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> index d718ae4..74779ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> @@ -48,16 +48,10 @@ config DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
> bool "Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs"
> depends on DEVTMPFS
> help
> - This will instruct the kernel to automatically mount the
> - devtmpfs filesystem at /dev, directly after the kernel has
> - mounted the root filesystem. The behavior can be overridden
> - with the commandline parameter: devtmpfs.mount=0|1.
> - This option does not affect initramfs based booting, here
> - the devtmpfs filesystem always needs to be mounted manually
> - after the rootfs is mounted.
> - With this option enabled, it allows to bring up a system in
> - rescue mode with init=/bin/sh, even when the /dev directory
> - on the rootfs is completely empty.
> + Automatically mount devtmpfs at /dev on the root filesystem, which
> + lets the system come up in rescue mode with [rd]init=/bin/sh.
> + Override with devtmpfs.mount=0 on the commandline. Initramfs can
> + create a /dev dir as needed, other rootfs needs the mount point.
>
> config STANDALONE
> bool "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external
> firmware"
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index f866510..9ec09ff 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -1038,12 +1038,6 @@ static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void)
>
> do_basic_setup();
>
> - /* Open the /dev/console on the rootfs, this should never fail */
> - if (sys_open((const char __user *) "/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0)
> - pr_err("Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");
> -
> - (void) sys_dup(0);
> - (void) sys_dup(0);
> /*
> * check if there is an early userspace init. If yes, let it do all
> * the work
> @@ -1055,8 +1049,17 @@ static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void)
> if (sys_access((const char __user *) ramdisk_execute_command, 0) != 0) {
> ramdisk_execute_command = NULL;
> prepare_namespace();
> + } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT)) {
> + sys_mkdir("/dev", 0755);
> + devtmpfs_mount("/dev");
> }
>
> + /* Open the /dev/console on the rootfs, this should never fail */
> + if (sys_open((const char __user *) "/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0)
> + pr_err("Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");
> + (void) sys_dup(0);
> + (void) sys_dup(0);
> +
> /*
> * Ok, we have completed the initial bootup, and
> * we're essentially up and running. Get rid of the
