block2mtd.c: Make kernel boot command line arguments work (try 4)

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Commit:     c4e7fb313771ac03dfdca26d30e8b721731c562b
Parent:     9a909867d2eca7727d0d5884df96e791e3531f24
commit c4e7fb313771ac03dfdca26d30e8b721731c562b
Author:     Ville Herva <vherva at vianova.fi>
AuthorDate: Fri Jul 14 00:31:16 2006 +0300
Commit:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
CommitDate: Sat Jul 15 13:39:10 2006 +0100

    block2mtd.c: Make kernel boot command line arguments work (try 4)
    
    Trying to pass kernel command line arguments to block2mtd at boot-time does
    not work currently. block2mtd_setup() is called so early that kmalloc()
    fails nevermind being able to do open_bdev_excl() (which requires rootfs to
    be mounted. This patch only saves the option string at the early boot stage,
    and parses them later when block2mtd_init() is called. If open_bdev_excl()
    fails, open_by_devnum(name_to_dev_t()) is tried instead, which makes it
    possible to initialize the driver before rootfs has been mounted. Also gets
    rid of the superfluous parse_name() that only checks if name is longer than
    80 chars and copies it to a string that is not kfreed.
    
    With this patch, I can boot statically compiled block2mtd, and mount jffs2
    as rootfs (without modules or initrd), with lilo config like this:
    
       root=/dev/mtdblock0
       append="rootfstype=jffs2 block2mtd.block2mtd=/dev/hdc2,65536"
    
    (Note that rootfstype=jffs2 is required, since the kernel only tries
    filesystems without "nodev" attribute by default, and jffs is "nodev").
    
    Compared to first version of this patch, this one does not copy the
    parameters to the global buffer if init has already been called, and the
    global array is marked as __initdata.
    
    Compared to the second version of this patch, module build is fixed.
    
    Compared to the third version of this patch, statically compiled block2mtd
    driver with no boot-time parameter no longer gives spurious error 'cannot
    open device ""'
    
    Signed-off-by: Ville Herva <vherva at vianova.fi>
    Acked-by: Jörn Engel <joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
---
 drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c |   93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
index ede3561..401c6a2 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
 
 #define VERSION "$Revision: 1.30 $"
 
@@ -236,6 +237,8 @@ static int _block2mtd_write(struct block
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
+
+
 static int block2mtd_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len,
 		size_t *retlen, const u_char *buf)
 {
@@ -299,6 +302,19 @@ static struct block2mtd_dev *add_device(
 
 	/* Get a handle on the device */
 	bdev = open_bdev_excl(devname, O_RDWR, NULL);
+#ifndef MODULE
+	if (IS_ERR(bdev)) {
+
+		/* We might not have rootfs mounted at this point. Try
+		   to resolve the device name by other means. */
+
+		dev_t dev = name_to_dev_t(devname);
+		if (dev != 0) {
+			bdev = open_by_devnum(dev, FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_READ);
+		}
+	}
+#endif
+
 	if (IS_ERR(bdev)) {
 		ERROR("error: cannot open device %s", devname);
 		goto devinit_err;
@@ -393,26 +409,6 @@ static int parse_num(size_t *num, const 
 }
 
 
-static int parse_name(char **pname, const char *token, size_t limit)
-{
-	size_t len;
-	char *name;
-
-	len = strlen(token) + 1;
-	if (len > limit)
-		return -ENOSPC;
-
-	name = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!name)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	strcpy(name, token);
-
-	*pname = name;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-
 static inline void kill_final_newline(char *str)
 {
 	char *newline = strrchr(str, '\n');
@@ -426,9 +422,15 @@ #define parse_err(fmt, args...) do {		\
 	return 0;				\
 } while (0)
 
-static int block2mtd_setup(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
+#ifndef MODULE
+static int block2mtd_init_called = 0;
+static __initdata char block2mtd_paramline[80 + 12]; /* 80 for device, 12 for erase size */
+#endif
+
+
+static int block2mtd_setup2(const char *val)
 {
-	char buf[80+12]; /* 80 for device, 12 for erase size */
+	char buf[80 + 12]; /* 80 for device, 12 for erase size */
 	char *str = buf;
 	char *token[2];
 	char *name;
@@ -450,13 +452,9 @@ static int block2mtd_setup(const char *v
 	if (!token[0])
 		parse_err("no argument");
 
-	ret = parse_name(&name, token[0], 80);
-	if (ret == -ENOMEM)
-		parse_err("out of memory");
-	if (ret == -ENOSPC)
-		parse_err("name too long");
-	if (ret)
-		return 0;
+	name = token[0];
+	if (strlen(name) + 1 > 80)
+		parse_err("device name too long");
 
 	if (token[1]) {
 		ret = parse_num(&erase_size, token[1]);
@@ -472,13 +470,48 @@ static int block2mtd_setup(const char *v
 }
 
 
+static int block2mtd_setup(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
+{
+#ifdef MODULE
+	return block2mtd_setup2(val);
+#else
+	/* If more parameters are later passed in via
+	   /sys/module/block2mtd/parameters/block2mtd
+	   and block2mtd_init() has already been called,
+	   we can parse the argument now. */
+
+	if (block2mtd_init_called)
+		return block2mtd_setup2(val);
+
+	/* During early boot stage, we only save the parameters
+	   here. We must parse them later: if the param passed
+	   from kernel boot command line, block2mtd_setup() is
+	   called so early that it is not possible to resolve
+	   the device (even kmalloc() fails). Deter that work to
+	   block2mtd_setup2(). */
+
+	strlcpy(block2mtd_paramline, val, sizeof(block2mtd_paramline));
+
+	return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+
 module_param_call(block2mtd, block2mtd_setup, NULL, NULL, 0200);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(block2mtd, "Device to use. \"block2mtd=<dev>[,<erasesize>]\"");
 
 static int __init block2mtd_init(void)
 {
+	int ret = 0;
 	INFO("version " VERSION);
-	return 0;
+
+#ifndef MODULE
+	if (strlen(block2mtd_paramline))
+		ret = block2mtd_setup2(block2mtd_paramline);
+	block2mtd_init_called = 1;
+#endif
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 



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