The patch titled Subject: initramfs: support initrd that is bigger than 2GiB has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was initramfs-support-initrd-that-is-bigger-than-2gib.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: initramfs: support initrd that is bigger than 2GiB When initrd (compressed or not) is used, kernel report data corrupted with /dev/ram0. The root cause: During initramfs checking, if it is initrd, it will be transferred to /initrd.image with sys_write. sys_write only support 2G-4K write, so if the initrd ram is more than that, /initrd.image will not complete at all. Add local xwrite to loop calling sys_write to workaround the problem. Also need to use xwrite in write_buffer() to handle: image is uncompressed cpio and there is one big file (>2G) in it. unpack_to_rootfs ===> write_buffer ===> actions[]/do_copy At the same time, we don't need to worry about sys_read/sys_write in do_mounts_rd.c::crd_load. As decompressor will have fill/flush and local buffer that is smaller than 2G. Test with uncompressed initrd, and compressed ones with gz, bz2, lzma,xz, lzop. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- init/initramfs.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN init/initramfs.c~initramfs-support-initrd-that-is-bigger-than-2gib init/initramfs.c --- a/init/initramfs.c~initramfs-support-initrd-that-is-bigger-than-2gib +++ a/init/initramfs.c @@ -19,6 +19,29 @@ #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/utime.h> +static ssize_t __init xwrite(int fd, const char *p, size_t count) +{ + ssize_t out = 0; + + /* sys_write only can write MAX_RW_COUNT aka 2G-4K bytes at most */ + while (count) { + ssize_t rv = sys_write(fd, p, count); + + if (rv < 0) { + if (rv == -EINTR || rv == -EAGAIN) + continue; + return out ? out : rv; + } else if (rv == 0) + break; + + p += rv; + out += rv; + count -= rv; + } + + return out; +} + static __initdata char *message; static void __init error(char *x) { @@ -346,7 +369,7 @@ static int __init do_name(void) static int __init do_copy(void) { if (count >= body_len) { - sys_write(wfd, victim, body_len); + xwrite(wfd, victim, body_len); sys_close(wfd); do_utime(vcollected, mtime); kfree(vcollected); @@ -354,7 +377,7 @@ static int __init do_copy(void) state = SkipIt; return 0; } else { - sys_write(wfd, victim, count); + xwrite(wfd, victim, count); body_len -= count; eat(count); return 1; @@ -603,8 +626,13 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void) fd = sys_open("/initrd.image", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0700); if (fd >= 0) { - sys_write(fd, (char *)initrd_start, - initrd_end - initrd_start); + ssize_t written = xwrite(fd, (char *)initrd_start, + initrd_end - initrd_start); + + if (written != initrd_end - initrd_start) + pr_err("/initrd.image: incomplete write (%zd != %ld)\n", + written, initrd_end - initrd_start); + sys_close(fd); free_initrd(); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch x86-numa-setup_node_data-drop-dead-code-and-rename-function.patch x86-numa-setup_node_data-drop-dead-code-and-rename-function-v2.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html