Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751373AbdIJJJZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2017 05:09:25 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:50070 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751196AbdIJJJX (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2017 05:09:23 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mtx Subject: problem w/ kernel init (rootfs vs initial console / init process) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:09:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:Y4IZI6gGE5m2lKAxjPdDG1qgG/VFn+bVZWPYznr2/m0gC96JbXv 4GO8YOYstRwR3o9KRNH8zJL87B1SsoyOb8RCx3hQCfszDQmTYfJkr6Ro9XLgWdLBH7TsLtX X8i8pkmFOR8Cj+DcAlyaaKt93SsK+eYtWxn243p3wANNYf1goFPnocDqTjOM2UPY8/pb52C wWCwROX9boiLrnQ0N2Wog== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:E+5nICuBOVQ=:8K8nwB6CRnajuGtzmVBZSe DlSk6zTKqy8nATzrMQjL3/wwvvtvtUhIA5hA9iXekPEk/3acwL8aBJOCqFBG18c8Bf9H5Iea7 JfhqNn+iO3nWDkSV3bj67OAXKea0gpbIe/etb+MD+70chjoXrme4AA3b1sd/VwpKEQPrqI5fy ZM2HFfAOYekbx/26ZhE+lD5nUCtx6LY81Z/s+Qtx/01jquZkcQtJXETrqJh3PCP0ZyMNQaJPx Kg6pEUdJtVvJHyXq4Y25XqDqnX3rmFL2WznAybuKwAZnpJvOLXJdj1eDsv4w6SgjwfzT4k8Fm jdUeUXgHXhVicyuu1hARjJU0BNLhxYhbOR8ghJKQMOMRRdZDbW8TfO/q4Ql59TjNdGH0+szqK X+n7uJ09y9z5wbfXH0muSGnFMOR82XnE7ZX8UruHQbJlGZZi98auki0s6TKkJvj4j8rlPUNDA hYookmZ2av1h8B3l+5r1jQU7PFHJ8MFcjID1MhUMBJt/Ju5RKzbb04GaJNFnPhbV7Jeu+f4kr lUhnXqHzRIi6acwrfN/CCLRbKCHphOHjXgZO1lqbymYufXw4ApTJ+ZrrYGhCcalpVXRBCzEBt UX3Tl2mhNsK5l0rtfw0ISMiQMdaw+gYZ47R7XwtGsTL95NvOkEGRcB09a3ZbAxDdjUCQ/IaxX wBhZgGIXhZ//fp7N9xbLIXRUp6534LAlKylZyULlTAS8amlz6dpsIS9IPf4MdS1rxDDwvW+tP YteIpHI4nIf+sKxgVP9iC/1Jtyyus0+WghpGHIJzTMTMgf+f2gly5xKpnx9QzeatDlCiw5+bc YJOu72poHop6xgvVZZwX3RJ6ZsUfjDzvDuuXFQEwVZq36kI+Rs= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 455 Lines: 18 Hi folks, I've got a very strange problem w/ v4.13 (on imx6): it tries to open the initial console, before even attempt to mount the root fs, which obviously is doomed to fail. (directly passing root= via cmdline - no initrd etc) What puzzles me most: prepare_namespace() is only called from kernel_init_freeable() - after it tried to open console (only when no ramdisk_execute_command found). Anyone have an idea what could be wrong here ? --mtx