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* pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4
@ 2003-07-21 20:53 Rene Mayrhofer
  2003-07-22  6:24 ` Denis Vlasenko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Rene Mayrhofer @ 2003-07-21 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi all,

[Please CC me in replies, I am currently not subsribed to this list.]

I am currently using 2.4.21-ac4 (with a few other patches, but none of 
them seems to touch pivot_root in any way) on a VIA EPIA M6000 board, 
with works pretty fine and seems more stable than the previsouly used 
2.4.21-rc2. However, there is one problem that I am unable to solve:

When switching the root filesystem on the fly basically with:

<prepare the new root fs, which is in fact a cramfs>
mount -t cramfs /dev/rd/0 $mntpoint
cd $mntpoint
mount -nt proc none proc/
mount -nt devfs none dev/
/sbin/pivot_root . mnt <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1
<snip, some further preparations on the new root fs>
/usr/sbin/chroot . /sbin/telinit u <dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1
<snip>
exit 0

it no longer works as expected. I should probably note that the 
redirections to /dev/console were not necessary for 2.4.21-rc2, I tried 
them with 2.4.21-ac4. While the above commands did the trick for 
2.4.21-rc2, with 2.4.21-ac4 the kernel processes leave the console on 
the old root fs open:

lsof -n | grep mnt
keventd     2   root    0u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
keventd     2   root    1u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
keventd     2   root    2u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
ksoftirqd   3   root    0u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
ksoftirqd   3   root    1u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
ksoftirqd   3   root    2u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kswapd      4   root    0u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kswapd      4   root    1u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kswapd      4   root    2u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
bdflush     5   root    0u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
bdflush     5   root    1u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
bdflush     5   root    2u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kupdated    6   root    0u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kupdated    6   root    1u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kupdated    6   root    2u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kjournald   7   root    0u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kjournald   7   root    1u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
kjournald   7   root    2u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
scsi_eh_0  81   root    0u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
scsi_eh_0  81   root    1u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console
scsi_eh_0  81   root    2u   CHR        5,1               16 
/mnt/dev/console

Does anybody have an idea what might be wrong here ?

best regards,
Rene


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2003-07-21 20:53 pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 Rene Mayrhofer
2003-07-22  6:24 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-07-22  6:50   ` Rene Mayrhofer
2003-07-22 17:37     ` Jason Baron
2003-07-22 17:40       ` Alan Cox
2003-07-22 18:03         ` Rene Mayrhofer
2003-07-22 20:00           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-22 20:37             ` Rene Mayrhofer
2003-07-22 21:54               ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23  6:23                 ` pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 and 2.4.22-pre7 Rene Mayrhofer
2003-07-22 22:14             ` pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 Mika Penttilä
2003-07-22 23:38               ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23  6:30                 ` pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 and 2.4.22-pre7 Rene Mayrhofer
2003-07-24  2:24                   ` Jason Baron
2003-07-24  7:11                     ` Rene Mayrhofer
2003-07-22 18:25         ` pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 Mika Penttilä

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