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Stefan Berger 27e58d3b52 rootfs: Fix support for rootfstype= when root= is given 
commit 21528c69a0 upstream.

Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst states:

  If CONFIG_TMPFS is enabled, rootfs will use tmpfs instead of ramfs by
  default.  To force ramfs, add "rootfstype=ramfs" to the kernel command
  line.

This currently does not work when root= is provided since then
saved_root_name contains a string and rootfstype= is ignored. Therefore,
ramfs is currently always chosen when root= is provided.

The current behavior for rootfs's filesystem is:

   root=       | rootfstype= | chosen rootfs filesystem
   ------------+-------------+--------------------------
   unspecified | unspecified | tmpfs
   unspecified | tmpfs       | tmpfs
   unspecified | ramfs       | ramfs
    provided   | ignored     | ramfs

rootfstype= should be respected regardless whether root= is given,
as shown below:

   root=       | rootfstype= | chosen rootfs filesystem
   ------------+-------------+--------------------------
   unspecified | unspecified | tmpfs  (as before)
   unspecified | tmpfs       | tmpfs  (as before)
   unspecified | ramfs       | ramfs  (as before)
    provided   | unspecified | ramfs  (compatibility with before)
    provided   | tmpfs       | tmpfs  (new)
    provided   | ramfs       | ramfs  (new)

This table represents the new behavior.

Fixes: 6e19eded36 ("initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8244c75f-445e-b15b-9dbf-266e7ca666e2@landley.net/
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120011248.396012-1-stefanb@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2024-01-25 14:52:48 -08:00
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Kconfig kbuild: Add CONFIG_PAHOLE_VERSION 2023-02-25 12:06:45 +01:00
Makefile init: use $(call cmd,) for generating include/generated/compile.h 2021-05-27 04:01:50 +09:00
calibrate.c
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do_mounts.c rootfs: Fix support for rootfstype= when root= is given 2024-01-25 14:52:48 -08:00
do_mounts.h
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do_mounts_initrd.c
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do_mounts_rd.c
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init_task.c sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested affinity 2021-08-20 12:33:00 +02:00
initramfs.c init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
main.c proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init 2023-12-03 07:31:24 +01:00
noinitramfs.c init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
version.c kbuild: add an elfnote for whether vmlinux is built with lto 2021-04-25 05:25:42 +09:00