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| author | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2022-11-16 07:16:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> | 2022-12-02 23:37:45 +0100 |
| commit | 035641b01e72af4f6c6cf22a4bdb5d7dfc4e8e8e (patch) | |
| tree | acec93f293c9bb699d628583c13051f439effd12 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | dm ioctl: fix a couple ioctl codes (diff) | |
| download | linux-035641b01e72af4f6c6cf22a4bdb5d7dfc4e8e8e.tar.xz linux-035641b01e72af4f6c6cf22a4bdb5d7dfc4e8e8e.zip | |
dm init: add dm-mod.waitfor to wait for asynchronously probed block devices
Just calling wait_for_device_probe() is not enough to ensure that
asynchronously probed block devices are available (E.G. mmc, usb), so
add a "dm-mod.waitfor=<device1>[,..,<deviceN>]" parameter to get
dm-init to explicitly wait for specific block devices before
initializing the tables with logic similar to the rootwait logic that
was introduced with commit cc1ed7542c8c ("init: wait for
asynchronously scanned block devices").
E.G. with dm-verity on mmc using:
dm-mod.waitfor="PARTLABEL=hash-a,PARTLABEL=root-a"
[ 0.671671] device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before creating mapped devices
[ 0.671679] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=hash-a ...
[ 0.710695] mmc0: new HS200 MMC card at address 0001
[ 0.711158] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 3.69 GiB
[ 0.715954] mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 1 2.00 MiB
[ 0.722085] mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 2 2.00 MiB
[ 0.728093] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 3 512 KiB, chardev (249:0)
[ 0.738274] mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7
[ 0.751282] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=root-a ...
[ 0.751306] device-mapper: init: all devices available
[ 0.751683] device-mapper: verity: sha256 using implementation "sha256-generic"
[ 0.759344] device-mapper: ioctl: dm-0 (vroot) is ready
[ 0.766540] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 254:0.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst index e5242ff17e9b..981d6a907699 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst @@ -123,3 +123,11 @@ Other examples (per target): 0 1638400 verity 1 8:1 8:2 4096 4096 204800 1 sha256 fb1a5a0f00deb908d8b53cb270858975e76cf64105d412ce764225d53b8f3cfd 51934789604d1b92399c52e7cb149d1b3a1b74bbbcb103b2a0aaacbed5c08584 + +For setups using device-mapper on top of asynchronously probed block +devices (MMC, USB, ..), it may be necessary to tell dm-init to +explicitly wait for them to become available before setting up the +device-mapper tables. This can be done with the "dm-mod.waitfor=" +module parameter, which takes a list of devices to wait for:: + + dm-mod.waitfor=<device1>[,..,<deviceN>] |