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Subject: Re: [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:38:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6332a54e-74c6-eafd-368e-71e87a3fa34e@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160903002014.GP3296@wotan.suse.de>

On 09/02/2016 07:20 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> kernel_read_file_from_path() can try to read a file from
> the system's filesystem. This is typically done for firmware
> for instance, which lives in /lib/firmware. One issue with
> this is that the kernel cannot know for sure when the real
> final /lib/firmare/ is ready, and even if you use initramfs
> drivers are currently initialized *first* prior to the initramfs
> kicking off.

Why?

> During init we run through all init calls first
> (do_initcalls()) and finally the initramfs is processed via
> prepare_namespace():

What's the downside of moving initramfs cpio extraction earlier in the boot?

I did some shuffling around of those code to make initmpfs work, does
anybody know why initramfs extraction _before_ we initialize drivers
would be a bad thing? (The cpio is in memory, either linked into the
kernel or from the bootloader. No drivers are needed to extract it,
that's sort of the point.)

The only things I can think of are memory churn (large contiguous
physical page allocations), or if a driver somehow got us access to more
physical memory?

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16 22:54 [PATCH v2 0/5] firmware: add SmPL grammar to avoid issues Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] MAINTAINERS: extend firmware_class maintainer list Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-24  6:55   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-24 20:39     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-25 11:05       ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-25 19:41         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-25 20:10           ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-25 20:25             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-25 20:30           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-02 23:59           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-03  0:20             ` [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-03  4:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-03  4:20                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
     [not found]                   ` <CA+55aFz4q5peXAeY9h8o3he7R=wXrBSYkOjMM9TehOw=pPoS+Q@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-03 17:49                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-03 18:01                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-03 18:10                         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-06 21:52                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-06 22:28                             ` Bjorn Andersson
2016-09-06 23:14                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-24  1:37                           ` Herbert, Marc
2016-09-24 17:41                             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-10-05  0:00                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05  0:12                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05  0:24                                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05  0:32                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 17:38                                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05  1:48                                   ` Josh Triplett
2016-10-05  1:58                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-06 17:46                 ` Bjorn Andersson
2016-09-06 18:32                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-06 21:11                     ` Bjorn Andersson
2016-09-06 21:50                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-06 23:04                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-24  2:51                           ` Herbert, Marc
2016-10-04 23:28                             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-06 22:32                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-14  2:38               ` Rob Landley [this message]
2016-10-05 18:00                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05 18:08                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 19:46                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-11-08 22:47                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-11-09  9:13                         ` Daniel Wagner
2016-11-09 23:40                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-11-15  9:28                         ` Johannes Berg
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] firmware: update usermode helper docs and add SmPL report Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] firmware: add usermode helper DECLARE_FW_LOADER_USER() annotation Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] firmware: fix fw cache to avoid usermode helper on suspend Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-07  0:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] firmware: add SmPL grammar to avoid issues Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-13 21:47   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-28  0:41     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-03 14:50       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-03 15:04         ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 17:06           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-03 19:32             ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 19:46               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-13 23:52   ` Fengguang Wu
2016-07-14  2:15     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-14  2:23       ` Fengguang Wu
2016-07-14  3:08         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-14  3:35           ` Fengguang Wu
2016-08-24  0:45 ` [PATCH v3 " mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] MAINTAINERS: extend firmware_class maintainer list mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe mcgrof
2016-08-24  8:17     ` Gabriel Paubert
2016-09-02 18:26       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] firmware: update usermode helper docs and add SmPL report mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] firmware: add usermode helper DECLARE_FW_LOADER_USER() annotation mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] firmware: fix fw cache to avoid usermode helper on suspend mcgrof
2016-08-31  7:03     ` Daniel Wagner
2016-09-02 18:13       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] firmware: add SmPL grammar to avoid issues Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 1/5] MAINTAINERS: extend firmware_class maintainer list Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  6:43       ` Greg KH
2016-09-08 14:58         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-08 15:25         ` Ming Lei
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 2/5] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 3/5] firmware: update usermode helper docs and add SmPL report Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 4/5] firmware: add usermode helper DECLARE_FW_LOADER_USER() annotation Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 5/5] firmware: fix fw cache to avoid usermode helper on suspend Luis R. Rodriguez

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