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
system. This uses the hints mechnanism. This mostly works today
because when there's no static hints (the default), this value can be
fetched from the hint. When there is a static hints file, the hint
passed from the boot loader to the kernel is ignored, but for the BIOS
case we're able to find it anyway. However, with UEFI, the fallback
doesn't work, so we get a panic instead.
Switch to acpi.rsdp and use TUNABLE_ULONG_FETCH instead. Continue to
generate the old values to allow for transitions. In addition, fall
back to the old method if the new method isn't present.
Add comments about all this.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5866
In case the firmware falls through to executing startup.sh, populate it
with the name of our boot loader. In normal operation this should not be
necessary but may allow the system to boot if it would otherwise just
remain at a shell prompt.
Reviewed by: andrew, imp, smh
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5878
Both objdump and nm are equally capable of reporting undefined symbols.
This gets us a step closer to building without binutils as we have an nm
implementation from ELF Tool Chain.
Reviewed by: bdrewery
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5613
These are no longer needed after the recent 'beforebuild: depend' changes
and hooking DIRDEPS_BUILD into a subset of FAST_DEPEND which supports
skipping 'make depend'.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
stores to clear it.
While here reduce the alignment of the data from 4k to 16 byte aligned.
This should be more than enough, without wasting too much space.
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
in boot1, like is normally done. When a keyboard appears in the UEFI
device tree, assume -D -h, just like on a BIOS boot.
# It is unclear if an ACPI keyboard appearing in the tree means there's
# a real keyboard or not. A USB keyboard doesn't seem to appear unless
# it is really there.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5223
With warnings now enabled some plaforms where failing due to warnings.
* Fix st_size printed as a size_t when its actually an off_t.
* Fix pointer conversion in load_elf for some 32bit platforms due to 64bit
off in ef.
MFC after: 2 days
X-MFC-With:
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Fix EFI boot support when presented with multiple valid boot partitions
across multiple devices.
It now prefers to boot from partitions that are present on the underlying
device that the boot1 image was loaded from. This means that it will boot
from the partitions on device the user chose from EFI boot menu in
preference to those on other devices.
Also fixed is the recovery from a failed attempt to boot, from a seemingly
valid partition, by continuing to trying all other available partitions
no matter what the error.
boot1 now use * to signify a partition what was accepted from the preferred
device and + otherwise.
Finally some error messages where improved and DPRINTF's with slowed boot
to aid debugging.
ZFS will still be preferred over UFS when both are available on the boot
device.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5108
to open the device in exclusive mode as, without this, the firmware may
also be reading packets off the interface leading to a race.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4132
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
EFI was mixing caching in two separate places causing issues when multiple
partitions where tested.
Eliminate this by removing fsstat and re-factoring fsread into fsread_size,
adding basic parameter validation.
Also:
* Enhance some error print outs.
* Fix compilation under UFS1_ONLY and UFS2_ONLY
* Use sizeof on vars instead of structs.
* Add basic parameter validation to fsread_size.
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4989
This builds on the modular EFI loader support added r294060 adding a
module to provide ZFS boot support on EFI systems.
It should be noted that EFI uses a fixed size memory block for all
allocations performed by the loader so it may be necessary to tune this
size.
For example when building an image which uses mfs_root e.g. mfsbsd, adding
the following to /etc/make.conf would be needed to prevent EFI from running
out of memory when loading the mfs_root image.
EFI_STAGING_SIZE=128
Submitted by: Eric McCorkle
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Make EFI boot loader modular in preparation for adding ZFS support.
This is a partial commit of the D4515.
Submitted by: Eric McCorkle
Reviewed by: emaste (in part)
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4515
As the in-tree GCC does not support __attribute__((ms_abi)) EFI can only
be built with Clang.
The EFI loader and boot1 validated this, but unused libefi was still built
causing issues under GCC after warnings where enabled by r293724.
Disable building all of EFI when the selected compiler is GCC.
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Disable some compiler warnings for GCC (non-standard compiler) fixing
build failures introduced by r293724, which enabled WARNS in the EFI boot
code, when compiling with none standard compiler (GCC).
Raised by: ian
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
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
Remove the printf("Not ufs\n") from the boot code which was hidden by the
local printf implementations, allowing these to have that code removed too.
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
ARM and i386 already required libstand so switch to using it for all
patforms, allowing the removal of custom print and memory methods.
This is also a pre-cursor to enabling WARNS which highlighted a number
of issues with the removed methods.
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
r279533 increased the boot1 size from 64k to 128k but didn't regenerate the
fat templates, hence the change was never activated.
With recent and upcoming changes the efi boot1 binary is now > 64k.
To avoid fat corruption in the created boot images regenerate the
templates to activate the boot1 size increase.
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
This is based on the vidconsole implementation.
Submitted by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: adrian
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4797
i386 is the only current FreeBSD architecture that ever used a.out
format.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4687
