今天发现sqashfs制作的根文件系统不需要像jffs2那样需要增加内核命令行:rootfstype=jffs2。看了一下内核挂载根文件系统个过程,发现是JFFS2注册文件系统时少设置了一个标志:FS_REQUIRES_DEV。
修改点: fs/jffs2/super.c
static struct file_system_type jffs2_fs_type = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.name = "jffs2",
.get_sb = jffs2_get_sb,
.kill_sb = jffs2_kill_sb,
.fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV,
};
有了这个标志表示该文件系统不是虚文件系统,必须要有实际的块设备。(参考: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/lk/lk-8.html)
通过cat /proc/filesystems, 如果没有'nodev'这个字符串,就说明带了这个标志。
$ cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev pipefs
nodev futexfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev eventpollfs
nodev devpts
squashfs
nodev ramfs
jffs2
nodev autofs
nodev mqueue
内核在挂载根文件系统时,如果没有命令行参数指定根文件系统类型,会从注册的所有文件系统中挑选有这个标志的文件系统一一尝试。
prepare_namespace()
if (saved_root_name[0]) {
root_device_name = saved_root_name;
if (!strncmp(root_device_name, "mtd", 3)) {
mount_block_root(root_device_name, root_mountflags);
goto out;
}
ROOT_DEV = name_to_dev_t(root_device_name);
if (strncmp(root_device_name, "/dev/", 5) == 0)
root_device_name += 5;
}
mount_root()
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK //block device
create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV);
mount_block_root("/dev/root", root_mountflags);
#endif
void __init mount_block_root(char *name, int flags)
get_fs_names(fs_names)
retry:
for (p = fs_names; *p; p += strlen(p)+1) { //in this loop,
int err = do_mount_root(name, p, flags, root_mount_data);
switch (err) {
case 0:
goto out;
case -EACCES:
flags |= MS_RDONLY;
goto retry;
case -EINVAL:
continue;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
__bdevname(ROOT_DEV, b); //b is a char array.
scnprintf(b, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "unknown-block(%u,%u)", MAJOR(ROOT_DEV), MINOR(ROOT_DEV))
#endif
printk("VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n",
root_device_name, b); //root_device_name = "mtdblock3", b = "unknown-block(0,0)(commonly)"
printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option; here are the available partitions:\n");
printk_all_partitions();
panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
}
out:
putname(fs_names);