As the uboot disk interface is using common/disk.c API, we also
should use disk_ioctl() call, this will give us chance to read partition
sizes and have feature parity with UEFI and BIOS implementations.
This does also fix arm boot issue on some systems, reported/tested by Ian,
thanks.
Reported by: ian
Reviewed by: ian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10421
The work to make it possible to avoid bcache via using F_NORA modifier did
miss the fact that not all loader platforms are using the bcache, and so
it is possible the modifier is not cleared, as bcache strategy function is
not used.
For fix, we make sure the checks are dont with masked flag.
This patch does fix boot for platforms which do not use bcache.
Reported by: emaste
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10422
As we provide the disk size verification and correction via disk_ioctl
and disk state provided by disk_open(), we can not share the partition
state in disk_devdesc structure. Also the sharing does make a lot of sense
with ufs, as only one partition is open at any given time, but zfs pools
do keep the disk devices open.
To make sure we do get the correct information about the open device,
just remove the cache.
Reviewed by: allanjude, smh
Approved by: allanjude (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9757
The disk_* and part_* api is using 64bit values for media size and
offsets. However, the current api is using off_t type, which is signed
64-bit int.
In this context the signed media size does not make any sense, and
the offsets are used to mark absolute, not relative locations.
Also, the data from GPT partition table and some other sources is
already using uint64_t data type, so using signed off_t can cause sign
issues.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: imp (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8710
Apparently the libstand dosfs optimization is a bit too optimistic
and did introduce possible memory corruption.
This patch is backing out the bad part and since this results in
dosfs reading full blocks now, we can also remove extra offset argument
from dv_strategy callback.
The analysis of the issue and the backout patch is provided by Mikhail Kupchik.
PR: 214423
Submitted by: Mikhail Kupchik
Reported by: Mikhail Kupchik
Reviewed by: bapt, allanjude
Approved by: allanjude (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8644
lsdev command does walk over devsw list, prints list element name and
will use dv_print() callback to print the device list.
Unfortunately this approach will add unneeded noise when there are no
particular devices detected.
To remove "empty" device section headers, the dv_print() callback
should print the header instead.
In addition, fixed dv_print callback for md module.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: imp (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8551
This change does modify devsw dv_print() to return the int value,
enabling walkers to interrupt the walk on non zero value from dv_print().
This will allow the pager_print actually to stop displaying data on
user input, and additionally pager is used in various *dev_print callbacks,
where it was missing.
For test, lsdev [-v] command should display data by screenfuls and should
stop when the key 'q' is pressed on pager prompt.
Reviewed by: allanjude
Approved by: allanjude (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5461
return value when it could return 1 (indicating we should stop).
Fix a few instances of pager_open() / pager_close() not being called.
Actually use these routines for the environment variable printing code
I just committed.
The block cache implementation in loader has proven to be almost useless, and in worst case even slowing down the disk reads due to insufficient cache size and extra memory copy.
Also the current cache implementation does not cache reads from CDs, or work with zfs built on top of multiple disks.
Instead of an LRU, this code uses a simple hash (O(1) read from cache), and instead of a single global cache, a separate cache per block device.
The cache also implements limited read-ahead to increase performance.
To simplify read ahead management, the read ahead will not wrap over bcache end, so in worst case, single block physical read will be performed to fill the last block in bcache.
Booting from a virtual CD over IPMI:
0ms latency, before: 27 second, after: 7 seconds
60ms latency, before: over 12 minutes, after: under 5 minutes.
Submitted by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: delphij (previous version), emaste (previous version)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4713
ubldr.
The changes are mostly dealing with removing unnecessary casts from the U-Boot
API (we're passing only pointers, no obvious reason to cast them to uint32_t),
cleaning up some compiler warnings and using the proper printf format
specifiers in order to be able to compile cleanly for both 32-bit and 64-bit
MIPS targets.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Sponsored by: Smartcom - Bulgaria AD
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5312
setting the u-boot environment variable loaderdev=. It used to accept only
'disk' or 'net'. Now it allows specification of unit, slice, and partition
as well. In addition to the generic 'disk' it also accepts specific
storage device types such as 'mmc' or 'sata'.
If there isn't a loaderdev env var, the historical behavior is maintained.
It will use the first storage device it finds, or a network device if
no working storage device exists.
99% of the work on this was done by Patrick Kelsey, but I made some
changes, so if anything goes wrong, blame me.
Submitted by: Patrick Kelsey <kelsey@ieee.org>
disk_open(). Very often this is called several times for one file.
This leads to reading partition table metadata for each call. To
reduce the number of disk I/O we have a simple block cache, but it
is very dumb and more than half of I/O operations related to reading
metadata, misses this cache.
Introduce new cache layer to resolve this problem. It is independent
and doesn't need initialization like bcache, and will work by default
for all loaders which use the new DISK API. A successful disk_open()
call to each new disk or partition produces new entry in the cache.
Even more, when disk was already open, now opening of any nested
partitions does not require reading top level partition table.
So, if without this cache, partition table metadata was read around
20-50 times during boot, now it reads only once. This affects the booting
from GPT and MBR from the UFS.
- Only non-sliced bsdlabel style partitioning is currently supported (but provisions
are made towards GPT support, which should follow soon)
- Enable storage support in loader on ARM
Obtained from: Semihalf
