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intrigeri authored
Return to the initramfs (unpacked in /run/initramfs) on shutdown (refs: #12428, #12354, Debian#778849). … otherwise the aufs read-write (tmpfs) branch, among possibly other things, can't be properly unmounted and its content remains in memory. Notes: * We have to handle some unmounting ourselves in initramfs-pre-shutdown-hook: systemd-shutdown doesn't manage to unmount the aufs read-write branch (/oldroot/lib/live/mount/overlay) as it is needed by the aufs (/oldroot) filesystem, and reciprocally it cannot unmount /oldroot as it is kept busy by /oldroot/lib/live/mount/*. So we disentangle this mess ourselves. And we have to manually empty the aufs read-write (tmpfs) branch, otherwise for some reason its content remains in memory. This code will of course need to be adapted for overlayfs some day. * We lock /bin/kill in memory: apparently systemd-exit.service needs it. * We remount /run on shutdown *before* dropping caches, just in case dropping caches removes what we've locked into memory. * We unpack the initramfs to /run/initramfs at *boot* time: sadly, I was not able to have it unpacked reliably in udev-watchdog-wrapper when the boot medium is ejected, so we'll use a little bit more RAM (instead of locking the compressed initramfs into memory, we're storing the uncompressed one there) and probably slow down the boot a bit, in order to make emergency shutdown robust. Note, however, that we save some of the RAM used by the uncompressed initramfs by deleting the worst offenders (kernel modules). * For now the whole procedure is quite noisy on the screen: the pre-shutdown hook runs under "set -x", doesn't run "clear", and spits out lots of debugging information. The goal is to enable users to provide useful debugging data if they have problems with emergency shutdown. Once we have shipped this code in a few releases and trust it's robust enough, we can surely reconsider and polish the UX by making the output less noisy. * We use absolute paths in many places to avoid $PATH lookup which might fail if the root filesystem is not there anymore.
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