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
boot1 to pass in files with newlines in them. Now that the EFI loader
groks foo=bar on the command line, this can allow a more general setup
than traditional boot loader args will allow.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5038
Set WARNS if not set for EFI boot code and fix the issues highlighted by
setting it.
Most components are set to WARNS level 6 with few being left at lower
levels due to the amount of changes needed to fix at higher levels.
Error types fixed:
* Missing / invalid casts
* Missing inner structs
* Unused vars
* Missing static for internal only funcs
* Missing prototypes
* Alignment changes
* Use of uninitialised vars
* Unknown pragma (intrinsic)
* Missing types etc due to missing includes
* printf formatting types
Reviewed by: emaste (in part)
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4839
- Add bzipfs to the list of supported filesystems in the EFI loader.
- Increase the heap size allocated for the EFI loader from 2MB to 3MB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2053
Reviewed by: benno, emaste, imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.
The loader previously failed to display on MacBooks and other systems
where the UEFI firmware remained in graphics mode.
Submitted by: Rafael Espíndola
NULL is passed. The address of the HCDP table can be found by
iterating over the configuration tables in the EFI system table.
To avoid more duplication, a function can be called with the GUID
of interest. The function will do the scanning. Use the function
in all places where we iterate over the configuration tables in
an attempt to find a specific one.
Bump the loader version number as the result of this.
Approved by: re (blanket)
accept load options (=command line options).
The call graph changes from *entry*->efi_main->efi_init, where
efi_main is the EFI equivalent of main to *entry*->efi_main->main,
where main is what you'd expect. efi_main now is what efi_init was.
The prototype of main follows that of C. The first argument is argc
and the second is argv. There is no third argument.
Allocation of heap pages is now handled by the EFI library and it
now deallocates the pages when main() returns or when exit() is
called. This allows us to safely return to the boot manager (or
EFI shell) without leaks. EFI applications are responsible to free
all memory themselves.
Handling of the load options is a bit tricky. There are either no
load options, load options in ASCII or load options in Unicode.
The EFI library will translate the ASCII options to Unicode options
as to simplify user code. Since the load options are passed as a
single string (if present) and main() accepts argc and argv, the
startup code also has to split the string into words and build the
argv vector. Here the trickiness starts. When the loader is started
from the EFI shell, argv[0] will automaticly load the program name.
In all other cases (ie through the boot manager), this is not the
case. Unfortunately, there's no trivial way to check. Hence, a
set of conditions is checked to determine if we need to fill in
argv[0] ourselves or not. This checking is not perfect. There are
known cases where it fails to do the right thing. The logic works
for most expected cases, though. This includes the case where no
options are given.
Approved by: re (blanket)
