hi lynxis,
i just added a slightly tweaked version of the patch to my merge tree
John
On 17/01/2014 03:49, Alexander Couzens wrote:
> We don't need to kill any processes in failsafe, because we are already at
> a low memory footprint. This patch fix also sysupgrade in failsafe. sysupgrade
> in failsafe was broken because it kills all processes. It also kills the lock
> which keeps the device in rescue modus and prevent procd from continuing
> booting. procd continues now the boot process until it get stuck
> in initd/preinit.c:spawn_procd() because it find out that a sysupgrade is
> happening and is going to sleep() inside a while(true) loop.
>
> Now we have:
> sysupgrade flashing the device,
> procd sleep()ing inside a while(true) loop.
>
> Because procd is in the while(true) loop, the hw watchdog doesn't receive
> anymore refreshes and reboot the device after 30 seconds. This is usually
> faster than flashing the device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Couzens <lyn...@fe80.eu>
> ---
> package/base-files/Makefile | 2 +-
> package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade | 10 +++++++---
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/base-files/Makefile b/package/base-files/Makefile
> index 0160e41..d6c5938 100644
> --- a/package/base-files/Makefile
> +++ b/package/base-files/Makefile
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/kernel.mk
> include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/version.mk
>
> PKG_NAME:=base-files
> -PKG_RELEASE:=149
> +PKG_RELEASE:=150
>
> PKG_FILE_DEPENDS:=$(PLATFORM_DIR)/ $(GENERIC_PLATFORM_DIR)/base-files/
> PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=opkg/host
> diff --git a/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade
> b/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade
> index 56e9a92..106b9f1 100755
> --- a/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade
> +++ b/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade
> @@ -210,9 +210,13 @@ run_hooks "" $sysupgrade_pre_upgrade
> ubus call system upgrade
> touch /tmp/sysupgrade
>
> -kill_remaining TERM
> -sleep 3
> -kill_remaining KILL
> +if [ ! -f /tmp/failsafe ] ; then
> + kill_remaining TERM
> + sleep 3
> + kill_remaining KILL
> +else
> + v "In failsafe mode: do not kill anything"
> +fi
>
> if [ -n "$(rootfs_type)" ]; then
> v "Switching to ramdisk..."
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