Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further
  next->mainline merging, but this batch contains:

   - Lots of random misc patches
   - OCFS2
   - Most of MM
   - backlight updates
   - lib/ updates
   - printk updates
   - checkpatch updates
   - epoll tweaking
   - rtc updates
   - hfs
   - hfsplus
   - documentation
   - procfs
   - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format
   - IPC"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (269 commits)
  ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values
  ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test
  devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb
  ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option
  init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression
  drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption
  drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata()
  drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page()
  drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr
  kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer
  gcov: reuse kbasename helper
  kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn()
  kernel/module.c: use pr_foo()
  gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version
  gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format
  gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file
  kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener()
  kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end()
  kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()
  ...

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 379090f..67ee8ef 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_state);
 extern void time_init(void);
 /* Default late time init is NULL. archs can override this later. */
 void (*__initdata late_time_init)(void);
-extern void softirq_init(void);
 
 /* Untouched command line saved by arch-specific code. */
 char __initdata boot_command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
@@ -811,10 +810,26 @@ static int run_init_process(const char *init_filename)
 		(const char __user *const __user *)envp_init);
 }
 
+static int try_to_run_init_process(const char *init_filename)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = run_init_process(init_filename);
+
+	if (ret && ret != -ENOENT) {
+		pr_err("Starting init: %s exists but couldn't execute it (error %d)\n",
+		       init_filename, ret);
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void);
 
 static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	kernel_init_freeable();
 	/* need to finish all async __init code before freeing the memory */
 	async_synchronize_full();
@@ -826,9 +841,11 @@ static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused)
 	flush_delayed_fput();
 
 	if (ramdisk_execute_command) {
-		if (!run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command))
+		ret = run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command);
+		if (!ret)
 			return 0;
-		pr_err("Failed to execute %s\n", ramdisk_execute_command);
+		pr_err("Failed to execute %s (error %d)\n",
+		       ramdisk_execute_command, ret);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -838,18 +855,19 @@ static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused)
 	 * trying to recover a really broken machine.
 	 */
 	if (execute_command) {
-		if (!run_init_process(execute_command))
+		ret = run_init_process(execute_command);
+		if (!ret)
 			return 0;
-		pr_err("Failed to execute %s.  Attempting defaults...\n",
-			execute_command);
+		pr_err("Failed to execute %s (error %d).  Attempting defaults...\n",
+			execute_command, ret);
 	}
-	if (!run_init_process("/sbin/init") ||
-	    !run_init_process("/etc/init") ||
-	    !run_init_process("/bin/init") ||
-	    !run_init_process("/bin/sh"))
+	if (!try_to_run_init_process("/sbin/init") ||
+	    !try_to_run_init_process("/etc/init") ||
+	    !try_to_run_init_process("/bin/init") ||
+	    !try_to_run_init_process("/bin/sh"))
 		return 0;
 
-	panic("No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel. "
+	panic("No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel. "
 	      "See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.");
 }