Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 12/31/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:58:34 -0500 To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:45:53AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:25:32PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 07:59:22PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:23:34PM +0100, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> > > > > [1] http://www.xenotime.net/linux/usb/usbboot-2422.patch
...
> > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/patch@1.1527.1.20?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3w|cset@1.1527.1.20
> >
> > Hi Marcelo,
> >
> > 1. Actually, my patch above loops every 5s to reduce screen clutter,
> > whereas the original 2.4 patch (cited by Andreas Unterkircher) loops
> > every 1s. Both loops forever.
> >
> > But, if a limit of 10 tries is what you want, then here is a patch
> > for 2.6.10:
>
> I agree with you that reducing screen clutter is a good thing. How
> about something like this that waits for 10+ seconds so even slow
> devices have a chance to get up but also does some primitive
> ratelimiting on the messages by only printing one every 3 seconds (but
> still attempting to mount every 1 sec) ?
Hi Jesper,
I prefer countdown with short message. The 2.4 messages are too long.
Incorporating your use of ssleep() and printk() loglevel, here is
the latest iteration:
--- ./init/do_mounts.c--orig 2004-12-27 17:36:35.000000000 -0500
+++ ./init/do_mounts.c 2004-12-30 22:43:57.000000000 -0500
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/root_dev.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
#include <linux/nfs_fs_sb.h>
@@ -278,6 +279,7 @@
char *fs_names = __getname();
char *p;
char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+ int tryagain = 20;
get_fs_names(fs_names);
retry:
@@ -297,9 +299,13 @@
* and bad superblock on root device.
*/
__bdevname(ROOT_DEV, b);
- printk("VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n",
- root_device_name, b);
- printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
+ if (--tryagain) {
+ printk (KERN_WARNING "VFS: Waiting %dsec for root device...\n", tryagain);
+ ssleep (1);
+ goto retry;
+ }
+ printk (KERN_CRIT "VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n", root_device_name, b);
+ printk (KERN_CRIT "Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
}
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