Hi all,
I've just written a patch for the rd code to allow the user to specify
more than one ramdisk size. I altered the rd_size parameter for the rd
module to be of charp type instead of int.
This will still work identically with modprobe/modutils, but you can
specify multiple sizes by supplying a comma-separated list. The last
value is used for the remainder of the ram disks you didn't specify, so
it's backwards-compatible.
This is very useful when you have an initrd of about 4MB, but want to
use larger ramdisk, for example a 2GB hdd-backed ramdisk.
Regards,
Wilco Baan Hofman
diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc6.orig/drivers/block/rd.c
linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/block/rd.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6.orig/drivers/block/rd.c 2005-09-05 12:07:59.000000000
+0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/block/rd.c 2005-09-05 21:16:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@
* architecture-specific setup routine (from the stored boot sector
* information).
*/
-int rd_size = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE; /* Size of the RAM disks */
+static char *rd_size = NULL; /* [SYN] The string with sizes */
+int rd_sizes[CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT]; /* [SYN] Sizes of the RAM disks
*/
/*
* It would be very desirable to have a soft-blocksize (that in the case
* of the ramdisk driver is also the hardblocksize ;) of PAGE_SIZE because
@@ -420,8 +421,9 @@
*/
static int __init rd_init(void)
{
- int i;
+ int i, cnt;
int err = -ENOMEM;
+ char *size_ptr;
if (rd_blocksize > PAGE_SIZE || rd_blocksize < 512 ||
(rd_blocksize & (rd_blocksize-1))) {
@@ -430,6 +432,47 @@
rd_blocksize = BLOCK_SIZE;
}
+
+ /* [SYN] Extract the ram disk sizes from rd_size if applicable. */
+ if (rd_size != NULL) {
+ size_ptr = rd_size;
+ for (i = 0, cnt = 0; ; i++) {
+ if (rd_size[i] == ',') {
+ rd_size[i] = '\0';
+ printk("rd: ramdisk %d: %sK size\n", cnt,
+ size_ptr);
+ rd_sizes[cnt] = simple_strtol(size_ptr, NULL,
+ 0);
+
+ cnt++;
+ size_ptr = rd_size + (i+1);
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (rd_size[i] == '\0') {
+ printk("rd: ramdisk %d-%d: %sK size\n", cnt,
+ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT,
+ size_ptr);
+ rd_sizes[cnt] = simple_strtol(size_ptr, NULL,
+ 0);
+
+ /* [SYN] The last value changes the size for the
+ * rest. Backwards compatibility measure. */
+ for (i = cnt + 1;
+ i < CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT;
+ i++) {
+
+ rd_sizes[i] = rd_sizes[cnt];
+ }
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ } else {
+ /* [SYN] Fill the block sizes array with default values. */
+ for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT; i++) {
+ rd_sizes[i] = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE;
+ }
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT; i++) {
rd_disks[i] = alloc_disk(1);
if (!rd_disks[i])
@@ -461,14 +504,14 @@
disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO;
sprintf(disk->disk_name, "ram%d", i);
sprintf(disk->devfs_name, "rd/%d", i);
- set_capacity(disk, rd_size * 2);
+ set_capacity(disk, rd_sizes[i] * 2);
add_disk(rd_disks[i]);
}
/* rd_size is given in kB */
printk("RAMDISK driver initialized: "
- "%d RAM disks of %dK size %d blocksize\n",
- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT, rd_size, rd_blocksize);
+ "%d RAM disks with %d blocksize\n",
+ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT, rd_blocksize);
return 0;
out_queue:
@@ -488,7 +531,7 @@
#ifndef MODULE
static int __init ramdisk_size(char *str)
{
- rd_size = simple_strtol(str,NULL,0);
+ rd_size = str;
return 1;
}
static int __init ramdisk_size2(char *str) /* kludge */
@@ -506,8 +549,8 @@
#endif
/* options - modular */
-module_param(rd_size, int, 0);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_size, "Size of each RAM disk in kbytes.");
+module_param(rd_size, charp, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_size, "Sizes of the RAM disks.");
module_param(rd_blocksize, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_blocksize, "Blocksize of each RAM disk in bytes.");
MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(RAMDISK_MAJOR);
