Has there been any progress on getting rid of initrd or adding stats in the past 2 years?
Ubuntu 20.04 still uses initrd and a huge one at that, so the plan to get rid of it seemed to have failed, but without systemd so there are still no timings like with other dists. Having separate stats breakdown for firmware, loader, kernel, and initrd would be useful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1615685 Title: systemd-analyze stats for kernel startup time looks suspect Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I've instrumented a kernel so I can clearly see when processes start and exit, this allows me to see when exactly the kernel has handed off control to userspace. The time the kernel actually takes to initialize compared to the time systemd-analyze reports are different. $ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 16.878s (kernel) + 43.152s (userspace) = 1min 30ms For example: [ 2.286330] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1532K (ffffffffb1755000 - ffffffffb18d4000) [ 2.296300] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 12288k [ 2.304356] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1872K (ffff9d9c6e42c000 - ffff9d9c6e600000) [ 2.317659] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1208K (ffff9d9c6e8d2000 - ffff9d9c6ea00000) [ 2.344896] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found. [ 2.368095] exec: 1 (swapper/0) -> /init [ 2.377284] _do_fork: 1 init [ 2.381933] exit 53 init [ 2.386444] _do_fork: 1 init [ 2.390741] exit 54 init [ 2.394899] _do_fork: 1 init and we have the initramfs initialization occurring, and then finally systemd starts: [ 16.571630] exec: 1 (run-init) -> /sbin/init [ 17.287342] systemd[1]: systemd 229 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN) [ 17.307892] systemd[1]: Detected virtualization microsoft. [ 17.314765] systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64. [ 17.421589] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <boottest>. So it seems that systemd is accounting initramfs time in the kernel time stats. It would be preferable to be able to report the kernel init time, the initramfs time and the userspace time rather just kernel + userspace. As it stands, the kernel passed off control to systemd at 16.571630 seconds, so I have no no idea why systemd is reporting 16.878 seconds. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1615685/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
