[PATCH v7 0/2] dm: boot a mapped device without an initramfs

From: Enric Balletbo i Serra
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 12:29:33 EST


Dear all,

So here is a new version of the patches to be reviewed, this time as
suggested by Alasdair the patches are reworked to match with the new
dmsetup bootformat feature [1]. These patches are not reviewed yet but
the format was discussed in the IRC and was suggested to send the
kernel patches in parallel.

Changes since v6:
- Add a new function to issue the equivalent of a DM ioctl programatically.
- Use the new ioctl interface to create the devices.
- Use a comma-delimited and semi-colon delimited dmsetup-like commands.

Changes since v5:
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-February/msg00112.html

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2017-May/msg00047.html

Wating for your feedback,

Enric Balletbo i Serra (1):
dm ioctl: add a device mapper ioctl function.

Will Drewry (1):
init: add support to directly boot to a mapped device

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 1 +
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +
Documentation/device-mapper/dm-boot.txt | 65 ++++
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 45 +++
include/linux/device-mapper.h | 6 +
init/Makefile | 1 +
init/do_mounts.c | 1 +
init/do_mounts.h | 10 +
init/do_mounts_dm.c | 459 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 591 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/device-mapper/dm-boot.txt
create mode 100644 init/do_mounts_dm.c

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