alistair23-linux/init
Yinghai Lu 3874743991 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@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: "Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@danweeks.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-08 15:57:26 -07:00
..
calibrate.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
do_mounts.c init: make rootdelay=N consistent with rootwait behaviour 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
do_mounts.h md: move lots of #include lines out of .h files and into .c 2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
do_mounts_initrd.c usermodehelper: split remaining calls to call_usermodehelper_fns() 2013-04-30 17:04:06 -07:00
do_mounts_md.c init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c cramfs: take headers to fs/cramfs 2014-01-25 03:13:02 -05:00
init_task.c sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file 2013-02-07 20:51:08 +01:00
initramfs.c initramfs: support initrd that is bigger than 2GiB 2014-08-08 15:57:26 -07:00
Kconfig printk: allow increasing the ring buffer depending on the number of CPUs 2014-08-06 18:01:23 -07:00
main.c Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can 2014-06-11 16:09:14 -07:00
Makefile init_task: Replace CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK 2012-05-05 13:00:46 +02:00
noinitramfs.c init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
version.c proc: Split the namespace stuff out into linux/proc_ns.h 2013-05-01 17:29:39 -04:00