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
an FDT. This is how Linux and OS X boot and can avoid some issues with
using Open Firmware at runtime. The code is highly experimental and disabled
by default; it can be turned on by setting the loader environment variable
"usefdt" to a non-NULL value.
particular, allow loaders to define the name of the RC script the
interpreter needs to use. Use this new-found control to have the
PXE loader (when compiled with TFTP support and not NFS support)
read from ${bootfile}.4th, where ${bootfile} is the name of the
file fetched by the PXE firmware.
The normal startup process involves reading the following files:
1. /boot/boot.4th
2. /boot/loader.rc or alternatively /boot/boot.conf
When these come from a FreeBSD-defined file system, this is all
good. But when we boot over the network, subdirectories and fixed
file names are often painful to administrators and there's really
no way for them to change the behaviour of the loader.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
'path' argument of ofw_parsedev() if devspec refers raw device with no path.
For example, `ls /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0:a/` works fine, while
`ls /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0:a` panicked before this change.
a single device to be opened multiple times concurrently unfortunately
isn't sufficient with ZFS. This is due to the fact, that ZFS may open
different partitions of a single device simultaneously. So the best we
can do in this case is to cache the lastly used device path and close
and open devices in ofwd_strategy() as needed.
PR: 165025
Submitted by: Gavin Mu
MFC after: 1 week
V100, the firmware is known to be broken and not allowing to simultaneously
open disk devices, causing attempts to boot from a mirror or RAIDZ to cause
a crash. This will be worked around later. The firmwares of newer sun4u models
don't seem to exhibit this problem though.
Steps for ZFS booting:
1. create VTOC8 label
# gpart create -s vtoc8 da0
2. add partitions, f.e.:
# gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 60g da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-swap da0
resulting in something like:
# gpart show
=> 0 143331930 da0 VTOC8 (68G)
0 125821080 1 freebsd-zfs (60G)
125821080 17510850 2 freebsd-swap (8.4G)
3. create zpool
# zpool create bunker da0a
or for mirror/RAIDZ (after preparing additional disks as in steps 1. + 2.):
# zpool create bunker mirror da0a da1a
# zpool create bunker raidz da0a da1a da2a ...
4. set bootfs
# zpool set bootfs=bunker bunker
5. install zfsboot
# zpool export bunker
# gpart bootcode -p /boot/zfsboot da0
6. write zfsloader to the ZFS Boot Block (so far, there's no dedicated tool
for this, so dd(1) has to be used for this purpose)
When using mirror/RAIDZ, step 4. and the dd(1) invocation should be repeated
for the additional disks in order to be able to boot from another disk in
case of failure.
# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
# dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/da0a bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc
# zpool import bunker
7. install system on ZFS filesystem
Don't forget to set 'zfs_load="YES"' and vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:bunker" in
loader.conf as well as 'zfs_enable="YES"'in rc.conf.
8. copy zpool.cache to the ZFS filesystem
cp -p /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /bunker/boot/zfs/zpool.cache
9. set mountpoint
# zfs set mountpoint=/ bunker
10. Now, given that aliases for all disks in the zpool exists (check with
the `devalias` command on the boot monitor prompt) and disk0 corresponds
to da0 (likewise for additional disks), the system can be booted from the
ZFS with:
{1} ok boot disk0
PR: 165025
Submitted by: Gavin Mu
The index() and rindex() functions were marked LEGACY in the 2001
revision of POSIX and were subsequently removed from the 2008 revision.
The strchr() and strrchr() functions are part of the C standard.
This makes the source code a lot more consistent, as most of these C
files also call into other str*() routines. In fact, about a dozen
already perform strchr() calls.
much space as needed for the mode buffer. Use strcmp, relying on OF giving
back NULL terminated strings.
Submitted by: marius
Approved by: nwhitehorn (mentor)
virtual mode. In virtual mode we have to do memory mapping. On PowerMacs it is
usually false while on pSeries we have found that it is true. The real-mode?
property is not available on sparc64.
Approved by: nwhitehorn (mentor)
OF loader on systems where address cells and size cells are both 2 (the
Mambo simulator) and fix an error where cons_probe() was called before
init_heap() but used malloc() to set environment variables.
MFC after: 1 month
Fix some wrong usages.
Note: this does not affect generated binaries as this argument is not used.
PR: 137213
Submitted by: Eygene Ryabinkin (initial version)
MFC after: 1 month
of "cd:,\\:tbxi" with properly configured boot.tbxi, instead of booting
\boot\loader directly. Rev 183168 could probably stay, since it can be
viewed as an anti-foot-shooting measure and has no impact on normal
operation. I can revert it as well, if anybody objects.
they point to the very same device. This should make loader usable on
some (all?) PowerMacs, where "/chosen/stdout" is disconneted from the
"screen" by the OF init process by default, except when user actually
has requested interaction with OF by holding ALT-CMD-O-F. Along with
rev 183168 this should provide a way to build bootable FreeBSD/ppc
installation or live CD that works OOB. Also, it should bring PowerMac
experience closer to that on other arches.
MFC after: 1 week
(assiming re@ blessing)
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing, but it may be
turned opt-in for stable branches depending on the consensus. You
can turn it off with WITHOUT_SSP.
- WITHOUT_SSP was previously used to disable the build of GNU libssp.
It is harmless to steal the knob as SSP symbols have been provided
by libc for a long time, GNU libssp should not have been much used.
- SSP is disabled in a few corners such as system bootstrap programs
(sys/boot), process bootstrap code (rtld, csu) and SSP symbols themselves.
- It should be safe to use -fstack-protector-all to build world, however
libc will be automatically downgraded to -fstack-protector because it
breaks rtld otherwise.
- This option is unavailable on ia64.
Enable GCC stack protection (aka Propolice) for kernel:
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing.
- Do not compile your kernel with -fstack-protector-all, it won't work.
Submitted by: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
of obtaining them over and over again and pretending we could do
anything useful without them (for chosen this includes adding a
declaration and initializing it in OF_init()).
- In OF_init() if obtaining the memory or mmu handle fails just call
OF_exit() instead of panic() as the loader hasn't initialized the
console at these early stages yet and trying to print out something
causes a hang. With OF_exit() one at least has a change to get back
to the OFW boot monitor and debug the problem.
- Fix OF_call_method() on 64-bit machines (this is a merge of
sys/dev/ofw/openfirm.c rev 1.6).
- Replace OF_alloc_phys(), OF_claim_virt(), OF_map_phys() and
OF_release_phys() in the MI part of the loader with wrappers around
OF_call_method() in the sparc64. Beside the fact that they duplicate
OF_call_method() the formers should never have been in the MI part
of the loader as contrary to the OFW spec they use two-cell physical
addresses.
- Remove unused functions which are also MD dupes of OF_call_method().
- In sys/boot/sparc64/loader/main.c add __func__ to panic strings as
different functions use otherwise identical panic strings and make
some of the panic strings a tad more user-friendly instead of just
mentioning the name of the function that returned an unexpected
result.
device (kind) specific unit field to the common field. This change
allows a future version of libefi to work without requiring anything
more than what is defined in struct devdesc and as such makes it
possible to compile said version of libefi for different platforms
without requiring that those platforms have identical derivatives
of struct devdesc.
devices can be opened multiple times simultaneously but we're
expected to be able to do so by the rest of the loader.
This fixes booting from disks attached to the on-board SCSI
controller of Sun Ultra 1 (previously this triggered a trap)
and probably also of AX1115 boards.
- While here, remove unused variables and add empty lines where
style(9) requires such.
Tested on: powerpc (grehan), sparc64
MFC after: 1 month
from OpenFirmware be 16 pages to avoid fragmentation in the list
of mappings returned when the kernel requests it in pmap_bootstrap.
This allows a static buffer to be used when obtaining the existing
mappings - very useful on the G5 when random physical pages can't
be grabbed because they can't be BAT-mapped.
MFC after: 3 days
be assumed that modules are contiguous in memory (they're not)
so don't blindly __syncicache start/end. In fact, don't bother
syncing the icache for modules since the kernel will do it after
fixing up relocations.
This fixes the trap when loading modules at boot time.
Reported by: orlando at break dot net
copying, rather than a page at a time. This was creating far
too many single-page mappings, and eventually OFW overflowed
some internal data structure and refused to map any more.
The new algorithm creates far less mappings and fixed a bug
where multiple mappings for the same page would be created.
'Twas known this was a problem, but only became urgent when the
install CD's mfs_root grew large enough to cause the overflow.
jumping to the kernel. Another bug exposed by removing the
1:1 BAT mapping. Sparc64 doesn't do this either.
Compile tested on: panther (sparc64). Code built, but not used, on sparc64.
of the 256Mb 1:1 BAT mapping exposed this as copying into memory that
hadn't been claimed from OpenFirmware.
compiled-tested on: panther (sparc64). Code built, but not used, on sparc64
