Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
  NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
  NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
  pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
  pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
  NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
  NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
  NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
  nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
  NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
  NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
  NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
  NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
  nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
  NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
  NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
  SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index b2eee02..2974c8b3 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -400,15 +400,42 @@ out:
 }
  
 #ifdef CONFIG_ROOT_NFS
+
+#define NFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MIN	5
+#define NFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MAX	30
+#define NFSROOT_RETRY_MAX	5
+
 static int __init mount_nfs_root(void)
 {
 	char *root_dev, *root_data;
+	unsigned int timeout;
+	int try, err;
 
-	if (nfs_root_data(&root_dev, &root_data) != 0)
-		return 0;
-	if (do_mount_root(root_dev, "nfs", root_mountflags, root_data) != 0)
+	err = nfs_root_data(&root_dev, &root_data);
+	if (err != 0)
 		return 0;
-	return 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * The server or network may not be ready, so try several
+	 * times.  Stop after a few tries in case the client wants
+	 * to fall back to other boot methods.
+	 */
+	timeout = NFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MIN;
+	for (try = 1; ; try++) {
+		err = do_mount_root(root_dev, "nfs",
+					root_mountflags, root_data);
+		if (err == 0)
+			return 1;
+		if (try > NFSROOT_RETRY_MAX)
+			break;
+
+		/* Wait, in case the server refused us immediately */
+		ssleep(timeout);
+		timeout <<= 1;
+		if (timeout > NFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MAX)
+			timeout = NFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MAX;
+	}
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif