CHROMIUM: dm: boot time specification of dm=

This is a wrap-up of three patches pending upstream approval.
I'm bundling them because they are interdependent, and it'll be
easier to drop it on rebase later.

1. dm: allow a dm-fs-style device to be shared via dm-ioctl

Integrates feedback from Alisdair, Mike, and Kiyoshi.

Two main changes occur here:

- One function is added which allows for a programmatically created
mapped device to be inserted into the dm-ioctl hash table.  This binds
the device to a name and, optional, uuid which is needed by udev and
allows for userspace management of the mapped device.

- dm_table_complete() was extended to handle all of the final
functional changes required for the table to be operational once
called.

2. init: boot to device-mapper targets without an initr*

Add a dm= kernel parameter modeled after the md= parameter from
do_mounts_md.  It allows for device-mapper targets to be configured at
boot time for use early in the boot process (as the root device or
otherwise).  It also replaces /dev/XXX calls with major:minor opportunistically.

The format is dm="name uuid ro,table line 1,table line 2,...".  The
parser expects the comma to be safe to use as a newline substitute but,
otherwise, uses the normal separator of space.  Some attempt has been
made to make it forgiving of additional spaces (using skip_spaces()).

A mapped device created during boot will be assigned a minor of 0 and
may be access via /dev/dm-0.

An example dm-linear root with no uuid may look like:

root=/dev/dm-0  dm="lroot none ro, 0 4096 linear /dev/ubdb 0, 4096 4096 linear /dv/ubdc 0"

Once udev is started, /dev/dm-0 will become /dev/mapper/lroot.

Older upstream threads:
http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=127429492521964&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=127429499422096&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=127429493922000&w=2

Latest upstream threads:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104859/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104860/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104861/

Bug: 27175947

Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/2020011

Change-Id: I92bd53432a11241228d2e5ac89a3b20d19b05a31
Git-commit: 96b0434c25be8c73822a679be35b29ca5263baea
Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common
Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 024bdaf9af46..276d3f68e08d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
 	BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
 	CLK	Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
 	CMA	Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
+	DM	Device mapper support is enabled.
 	DRM	Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
 	DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
 	EDD	BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
@@ -919,6 +920,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
 
+	dm=		[DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
+			See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
+
 	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
 			this option disables the debugging code at boot.