fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
fs/nfs/nfsroot.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 9949 bytes
- Lines
- 317
- Domain
- Core OS
- Bucket
- VFS And Filesystem Core
- Inferred role
- Core OS: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.
- Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.
- Allocates kernel memory; connect allocation flags and lifetime to context constraints.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/types.hlinux/string.hlinux/init.hlinux/nfs.hlinux/nfs_fs.hlinux/utsname.hlinux/root_dev.hnet/ipconfig.hinternal.h
Detected Declarations
function nfs_root_debugfunction nfs_root_setupfunction root_nfs_copyfunction root_nfs_catfunction root_nfs_parse_optionsfunction root_nfs_datafunction nfs_root_data
Annotated Snippet
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>
*
* Allow an NFS filesystem to be mounted as root. The way this works is:
* (1) Use the IP autoconfig mechanism to set local IP addresses and routes.
* (2) Construct the device string and the options string using DHCP
* option 17 and/or kernel command line options.
* (3) When mount_root() sets up the root file system, pass these strings
* to the NFS client's regular mount interface via sys_mount().
*
*
* Changes:
*
* Alan Cox : Removed get_address name clash with FPU.
* Alan Cox : Reformatted a bit.
* Gero Kuhlmann : Code cleanup
* Michael Rausch : Fixed recognition of an incoming RARP answer.
* Martin Mares : (2.0) Auto-configuration via BOOTP supported.
* Martin Mares : Manual selection of interface & BOOTP/RARP.
* Martin Mares : Using network routes instead of host routes,
* allowing the default configuration to be used
* for normal operation of the host.
* Martin Mares : Randomized timer with exponential backoff
* installed to minimize network congestion.
* Martin Mares : Code cleanup.
* Martin Mares : (2.1) BOOTP and RARP made configuration options.
* Martin Mares : Server hostname generation fixed.
* Gerd Knorr : Fixed wired inode handling
* Martin Mares : (2.2) "0.0.0.0" addresses from command line ignored.
* Martin Mares : RARP replies not tested for server address.
* Gero Kuhlmann : (2.3) Some bug fixes and code cleanup again (please
* send me your new patches _before_ bothering
* Linus so that I don' always have to cleanup
* _afterwards_ - thanks)
* Gero Kuhlmann : Last changes of Martin Mares undone.
* Gero Kuhlmann : RARP replies are tested for specified server
* again. However, it's now possible to have
* different RARP and NFS servers.
* Gero Kuhlmann : "0.0.0.0" addresses from command line are
* now mapped to INADDR_NONE.
* Gero Kuhlmann : Fixed a bug which prevented BOOTP path name
* from being used (thanks to Leo Spiekman)
* Andy Walker : Allow to specify the NFS server in nfs_root
* without giving a path name
* Swen Thümmler : Allow to specify the NFS options in nfs_root
* without giving a path name. Fix BOOTP request
* for domainname (domainname is NIS domain, not
* DNS domain!). Skip dummy devices for BOOTP.
* Jacek Zapala : Fixed a bug which prevented server-ip address
* from nfsroot parameter from being used.
* Olaf Kirch : Adapted to new NFS code.
* Jakub Jelinek : Free used code segment.
* Marko Kohtala : Fixed some bugs.
* Martin Mares : Debug message cleanup
* Martin Mares : Changed to use the new generic IP layer autoconfig
* code. BOOTP and RARP moved there.
* Martin Mares : Default path now contains host name instead of
* host IP address (but host name defaults to IP
* address anyway).
* Martin Mares : Use root_server_addr appropriately during setup.
* Martin Mares : Rewrote parameter parsing, now hopefully giving
* correct overriding.
* Trond Myklebust : Add in preliminary support for NFSv3 and TCP.
* Fix bug in root_nfs_addr(). nfs_data.namlen
* is NOT for the length of the hostname.
* Hua Qin : Support for mounting root file system via
* NFS over TCP.
* Fabian Frederick: Option parser rebuilt (using parser lib)
* Chuck Lever : Use super.c's text-based mount option parsing
* Chuck Lever : Add "nfsrootdebug".
*/
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/nfs.h>
#include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/root_dev.h>
#include <net/ipconfig.h>
#include "internal.h"
#define NFSDBG_FACILITY NFSDBG_ROOT
/* Default path we try to mount. "%s" gets replaced by our IP address */
#define NFS_ROOT "/tftpboot/%s"
/* Default NFSROOT mount options. */
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/types.h`, `linux/string.h`, `linux/init.h`, `linux/nfs.h`, `linux/nfs_fs.h`, `linux/utsname.h`, `linux/root_dev.h`, `net/ipconfig.h`.
- Detected declarations: `function nfs_root_debug`, `function nfs_root_setup`, `function root_nfs_copy`, `function root_nfs_cat`, `function root_nfs_parse_options`, `function root_nfs_data`, `function nfs_root_data`.
- Atlas domain: Core OS / VFS And Filesystem Core.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.