This document describes one way to create the initrd directory hierarchy
in order to allow an initrd to be built into your kernel. The trick
here is to steal the initrd file used on your Linux laptop, Ubuntu in
this case. There are probably much better ways of doing this.
That said, here are the commands:
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cd tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture
zcat /initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.img.zcat
mkdir initrd
cd initrd
cpio -id < /tmp/initrd.img.zcat
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Another way to create an initramfs image is using "dracut"[1], which is
available on many distros, however the initramfs dracut generates is a cpio
archive with another cpio archive in it, so an extra step is needed to create
the initrd directory hierarchy.
Here are the commands to create a initrd directory for rcutorture using
dracut:
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dracut --no-hostonly --no-hostonly-cmdline --module "base bash shutdown" /tmp/initramfs.img
cd tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture
mkdir initrd
cd initrd
/usr/lib/dracut/skipcpio /tmp/initramfs.img | zcat | cpio -id < /tmp/initramfs.img
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Interestingly enough, if you are running rcutorture, you don't really
need userspace in many cases. Running without userspace has the
advantage of allowing you to test your kernel independently of the
distro in place, the root-filesystem layout, and so on. To make this
happen, put the following script in the initrd's tree's "/init" file,
with 0755 mode.
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#!/bin/sh
[ -d /dev ] || mkdir -m 0755 /dev
[ -d /root ] || mkdir -m 0700 /root
[ -d /sys ] || mkdir /sys
[ -d /proc ] || mkdir /proc
[ -d /tmp ] || mkdir /tmp
mkdir -p /var/lock
mount -t sysfs -o nodev,noexec,nosuid sysfs /sys
mount -t proc -o nodev,noexec,nosuid proc /proc
# Some things don't work properly without /etc/mtab.
ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
# Note that this only becomes /dev on the real filesystem if udev's scripts
# are used; which they will be, but it's worth pointing out
if ! mount -t devtmpfs -o mode=0755 udev /dev; then
echo "W: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev"
mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755 udev /dev
[ -e /dev/console ] || mknod --mode=600 /dev/console c 5 1
[ -e /dev/kmsg ] || mknod --mode=644 /dev/kmsg c 1 11
[ -e /dev/null ] || mknod --mode=666 /dev/null c 1 3
fi
mkdir /dev/pts
mount -t devpts -o noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 devpts /dev/pts || true
mount -t tmpfs -o "nosuid,size=20%,mode=0755" tmpfs /run
mkdir /run/initramfs
# compatibility symlink for the pre-oneiric locations
ln -s /run/initramfs /dev/.initramfs
# Export relevant variables
export ROOT=
export ROOTDELAY=
export ROOTFLAGS=
export ROOTFSTYPE=
export IP=
export BOOT=
export BOOTIF=
export UBIMTD=
export break=
export init=/sbin/init
export quiet=n
export readonly=y
export rootmnt=/root
export debug=
export panic=
export blacklist=
export resume=
export resume_offset=
export recovery=
for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online
do
case $i in
'/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online')
;;
'/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online')
;;
*)
echo 1 > $i
;;
esac
done
while :
do
sleep 10
done
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References:
[1]: https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
[2]: http://blog.elastocloud.org/2015/06/rapid-linux-kernel-devtest-with-qemu.html
[3]: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51621
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efi/fdt: Avoid FDT manipulation after ExitBootServices()
Some AArch64 UEFI implementations disable the MMU in ExitBootServices(),
after which unaligned accesses to RAM are no longer supported.
Commit:
abfb7b686a3e ("efi/libstub/arm*: Pass latest memory map to the kernel")
fixed an issue in the memory map handling of the stub FDT code, but
inadvertently created an issue with such firmware, by moving some
of the FDT manipulation to after the invocation of ExitBootServices().
Given that the stub's libfdt implementation uses the ordinary, accelerated
string functions, which rely on hardware handling of unaligned accesses,
manipulating the FDT with the MMU off may result in alignment faults.
So fix the situation by moving the update_fdt_memmap() call into the
callback function invoked by efi_exit_boot_services() right before it
calls the ExitBootServices() UEFI service (which is arguably a better
place for it anyway)
Note that disabling the MMU in ExitBootServices() is not compliant with
the UEFI spec, and carries great risk due to the fact that switching from
cached to uncached memory accesses halfway through compiler generated code
(i.e., involving a stack) can never be done in a way that is architecturally
safe.
Fixes: abfb7b686a3e ("efi/libstub/arm*: Pass latest memory map to the kernel")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: leif.lindholm@linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485971102-23330-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>