Re: [PATCH] initrd: support erofs as initrd

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 08:28:23PM +0100, Julian Stecklina via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>
> 
> Add erofs detection to the initrd mount code. This allows systems to
> boot from an erofs-based initrd in the same way as they can boot from
> a squashfs initrd.
> 
> Just as squashfs initrds, erofs images as initrds are a good option
> for systems that are memory-constrained.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>

>  #include "do_mounts.h"
>  #include "../fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs.h"
> +#include "../fs/erofs/erofs_fs.h"

This is getting really unpleasant...

Folks, could we do something similar to initcalls - add a section
(.init.text.rd_detect?) with array of pointers to __init functions
that would be called by that thing in turn?  With filesystems that
want to add that kind of stuff being about to do something like

static int __init detect_minix(struct file *file, void *buf, loff_t *pos, int start_block)
{
	struct minix_super_block *minixsb = buf;
	initrd_fill_buffer(file, buf, pos, (start_block + 1) * BLOCK_SIZE);
	if (minixsb->s_magic == MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC ||
	    minixsb->s_magic == MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC2) {
		printk(KERN_NOTICE
			"RAMDISK: Minix filesystem found at block %d\n",
			start_block);
		return minixsb->s_nzones << minixsb->s_log_zone_size;
	}
	return -1;
}

initrd_detect(detect_minix);

with the latter emitting a pointer to detect_minix into that new
section?

initrd_fill_buffer() would be something along the lines of

	if (*pos != wanted) {
		*pos = wanted;
		kernel_read(file, buf, 512, pos);
	}

I mean, we can keep adding those pieces there, but...