Re: [PATCH] init/mount: print pretty name of root device when panics

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:10:25 +0000, Jianyong Wu wrote:
> Given a wrong root device, current log may not give the pretty name
> which is useful to locate root cause.
> 
> For example, there are 2 blk devs in a VM, /dev/vda which has 2 partitials
> /dev/vda1 and /dev/vda2 and /dev/vdb which is blank. /dev/vda2 is the
> right root dev. When set "root=/dev/vdb", we get error log:
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.misc

[1/1] init/mount: print pretty name of root device when panics
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/fae8adf5208d