From 73310a169aebe257efdd35a763cce1c7658f40c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:28:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] init: make initrd/initramfs decompression failure a KERN_EMERG event Impact: More consistent behaviour, avoid policy in the kernel Upgrade/downgrade initrd/initramfs decompression failure from inconsistently a panic or a KERN_ALERT message to a KERN_EMERG event. It is, however, possible do design a system which can recover from this (using the kernel builtin code and/or the internal initramfs), which means this is policy, not a technical necessity. A good way to handle this would be to have a panic-level=X option, to force a panic on a printk above a certain level. That is a separate patch, however. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- init/do_mounts_rd.c | 3 ++- init/initramfs.c | 11 +++++++---- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c index 91d0cfca5071..027a402708de 100644 --- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c +++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ identify_ramdisk_image(int fd, int start_block, decompress_fn *decompressor) printk(KERN_NOTICE "RAMDISK: %s image found at block %d\n", compress_name, start_block); if (!*decompressor) - printk(KERN_CRIT "RAMDISK: %s decompressor not configured!\n", + printk(KERN_EMERG + "RAMDISK: %s decompressor not configured!\n", compress_name); nblocks = 0; goto done; diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index 9a7290ec8187..7dcde7ea6603 100644 --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void) char *err = unpack_to_rootfs(__initramfs_start, __initramfs_end - __initramfs_start, 0); if (err) - panic(err); + panic(err); /* Failed to decompress INTERNAL initramfs */ if (initrd_start) { #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM int fd; @@ -554,9 +554,12 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void) printk(KERN_INFO "Unpacking initramfs..."); err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start, initrd_end - initrd_start, 0); - if (err) - panic(err); - printk(" done\n"); + if (err) { + printk(" failed!\n"); + printk(KERN_EMERG "%s\n", err); + } else { + printk(" done\n"); + } free_initrd(); #endif }