The commit message documented it as /etc/src.conf but the comment in the
source mentioned the non-existent /etc/loader.conf.
Fixes: f8a199f28f9d ("stand: Raise limit to 550,000 bytes for loader")
Raise the limit for /boot/loader to be 550k. The IBM PC imposes a limit
of 640k of RAM below 1MB, which is needed for real mode calls. BTX takes
40k of that. The BIOS takes some amount (25k seems a good "99% take less
than or equal to this" estimate for that, though some systems consume
more). Most typical setups need 25k of stack. This leaves 550k for
code. We set the limit to 550,000 which gives about an extra 13,000
bytes of buffer for machines that whose setups use a little more stack
or whose BIOS reserves a bit more...
Add this derivation in the Makefile. Also recommend setting LOADERSIZE
lower in /etc/src.conf when the loader has to run on a system whose BIOS
takes up more space, or for a complex setup. Add a recipe for how to
find how much RAM your BIOS uses as well (thanks to jhb@ for the
trick). Network cards that boot via PXE and HBAs with their BIOS enabled
are known to be large consumers of lomem space.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36152
Turns out there's two hidden a.out dependencies. pxeldr.S assumes it has
access to the a.out header from /boot/loader and cdboot.S assumes that
/boot/loader is also a.out and doesn't use boot2.
So, go back to making a.out files for these and adjust the size checks
to use ls, but we only need to check loader.bin. Trim the size we check
against by 2,000. The difference in size between loader and loader.bin
is about 3000 bytes, but clang15 produces binaries that are a smidge
bigger so we need to relax the check just a little and accept some
additional risk for the moment.
Add some comments to loader's Makefile about this.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36142
It's sometimes desirable to override the size limit: It's a soft limit
and there are times we exceed the limit by just a little bit and don't
want the build to fail (or we are hitting runtime failures below the
510,000 byte limit).
Sponsored by: Netflix
devformat produces the same output as i386_fmtdev, so just use it to
reduce on the dependencies.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35927
All of the archsw fmtdev functions treat DEVT_DISK as a call to
disk_fmtdev. Set all disks' dv_fmtdev to disk_fmtdev so devformat
will return the same thing.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: tsoome (prior version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35917
Rather than have the magic, hand-crafted fields that have to align with
fields in other structures at the end of i386_devdesc, make it into
anonymous union and adjust the code accordingly. This is safer and
similar to what CAM does.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: kevans, tsoome (prior version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35965
The BIOS method of booting imposes an absolute limit of 640k for the
size of the program being run due to btx. In practice, this means that
programs larger than about 500kiB will fail in odd ways as the stack /
heap will overflow.
Pick 510,000 as the cutoff line semi-arbitrarily. loader_lua is now
almost too big and we want to break the build when it crosses this
threshold. In my experience, below 500,000 always works, above 520,000
always seems to fail with things getting bad somewhere between 512,000
to 515,000. 510,000 is as close to the line as I think we can go, though
experience may dictate we need to lower this in the future.
This is at-best a stop-breakage until we have a better way to subset the
boot loader for BIOS booting to allow better, more fined-tuned
/boot/loaders for the many different environments they have to run
in. This likely means we'll have a graphical loader than understands a
few filesystmes for installation, and a non-graphical loader that
understands the most filesystems possible for everything else in the
future. Our build infrastructure needs some work before we can do that,
however.
At this late date, it likely isn't worth the efforts to move parts of
the loader into high memory. There's a number of assumptions about where
the stack is, where buffers reside, etc that are fulfilled when it lives
in the first 640k that would need bounce buffers and/or other counter
measures if we were to split it up. All BIOS calls are done in 16-bit
mode with SEG:OFF addresses, requiring them to be in the first 640k of
RAM. And nearly all machines in the last decade can boot with UEFI
(though there's some exceptions, so it isn't worth killing outright
yet).
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36129
The first level boot blocks have understood how to load ELF code since
1999. Switch /boot/loader and /boot/pxeldr over to being ELF format so
that in-tree tools can examine them more closely. In addition, one
could, in theory, now have a 'lo-mem' and a 'hi-mem' segment (though a
lot of work would need to be done with bounce buffers, btx, code segment
marking, etc for an arrangement like that to work).
As far as I can tell, this is the last a.out binary in the tree. There
are several raw binaries left, but everything else is ELF.
Reviewed by: emaste, kevans
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36130
dv_cleanup is specified almost everywhere. Use nullsys instead of NULL
to indicate 'do nothing'. Also, be consistent in trailing commas that
were missing before.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35913
With clang 15, the following -Werror warning is produced:
stand/i386/boot2/boot2.c:358:6: error: a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Werror,-Wstrict-prototypes]
This is because parse() is declared with a (void) argument list, and
defined with an empty argument list. Make the definition match the
declaration.
MFC after: 3 days
The console escape code standard (ECMA-48) specifies color #3 (escape
code 33) as yellow. A brown console color is an artifact of the VGA
palette, which replaces dim (but not bright) yellow with brown.
Reviewed by: adrian, imp
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34531
For historical reasons console color number 3 may be either yellow (most
consoles) or brown (VGA palette). The console escape code standard
uses "yellow", but teken color name constants appear to be based on the
VGA scheme and use TC_BROWN for color 3. Even so, the palette table
used 50,50,0 as the RGB percentage tuple, resulting in a dim yellow for
framebuffer consoles at the time teken was introduced.
Amusingly, in 19e2ce2d8367 the comment on the palette entry was changed
from "brown" to "dark yellow" but the colour itself was changed from
a pure yellow to being somewhat brown.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Accept "bright" or "light" prefix for named colors.
For numeric colors, update error message to specify that values 0 to 15
are allowed, and verify that values are in that range.
Reviewed by: imp, tsoome (both earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34512
The text after .error et al is emitted verbatim.
Reviewed by: sjg
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33904
Store whether or not we found a vbefb module (eg, a tg supported kernel)
in the preloaded_file structure. This automatically resets on reload and
eliminates load_elf knowing about any gfx_* interface. Restrict this to
i386, which is the only place it's used. Update libi386 to check in the
preloaded_file struct. Eliminate this from the teken_gfx
structure. Rewrite the parsing code to be more inline. Check this from
the same place we check for a relocatable amd64 kernel.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: manu, tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33427
Reading from Write Combining memory can be very-very slow. Try to use
shadow buffer to avoid such reads.
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33305
We want to keep our root file system open to preserve bcache segment
between file accesses, thus reducing physical disk IO.
Reviewed by: imp, allanjude, kevans (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30848
MFC after: 1 month
Because lld 13 and higher default to garbage collecting start/stop
symbols when using --gc-sections, the linker sets used in the i386 boot
loaders will disappear. This leads to the loaders not recognizing any
commands, and failure to boot.
Until we have a good set of linker scripts for the loaders, work around
it by disabling the start-stop-gc feature.
MFC after: 1 week
This pushes the bulk of the rx servicing into a single loop that's only
slightly convoluted, and it addresses a problem with rx handling in the
process. If we hit a tx interrupt while we're processing, we'd
previously drop the frame on the floor completely and ultimately
timeout, increasing boot time on particularly busy hosts as we keep
having to backoff and resend.
After this patch, we don't seem to hit timeouts at all on zoo anymore
though loading a 27M kernel is still relatively slow (~1m20s).
Reviewed by: tsoome
Triage by: Ash Gokhale <ashfixit gmail com>
Sponsored By: National Bureau of Economic Research
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31512
These issues have low impact because they require precise circumstances
to trigger one of them. The disk must be > 2 TiB in size and either:
- The primary GPT header is dammaged.
- The freebsd-boot partiton is located farther than the first 2 TiB of
the disc and one of its sectors takes place at a lba value that makes
the higher 32 bits of this very value change.
Errors and corrections folow:
- decl and incl don't affect CF, so replace with subl/addl $1
- repe uses %cx, so move size to it with movw
- moving a 64-bit value with %cx of 2 (should be 4) so addresses
> 2TB will work.
PR: 233180
Reviewed by: imp@ (applied patch using description in bug)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31100
In my initial testing, these are the functions which showed up as
being worth instrumenting. More may be added later.
common/console.c: cons_probe
common/gfx_fb.c: read_list, insert_font, autoload_font
common/interp.c: interact
common/interp_lua.c: interp_init, interp_run
efi/libefi/efipart.c: efipart_readwrite
i386/libi386/biosdisk.c: bd_init, bd_open, bd_edd_io, bd_chs_io, bd_io
libsa/open.c: open
libsa/read.c: read
libsa/twiddle.c: twiddle
Note that profiling interp_run may be of questionable utility as it
may depend on user behaviour (e.g. pressing keys).
Reviewed by: kevans (earlier version)
According to comments in the Makefile, to make pxeboot work we need to
have crt0.o first. This is needed because the simplified loader in
pxeboot assumes that the startup code is at offset 0 in this binary. In
normal booting, the start address can be obtained from headers of the
binary, but since pxeboot encodes this as a pure binary, it has no way
of knowing where that is and assumes 0. Added comments to that effect
in the Makefile.
We've done this by adding it to OBJS before all the other .o's are
added. However, there's a problem. This also adds it to the CLEANFILES
variable, which causes it to be removed from multiple places. The
dependencies may also cause it to be re-built at a time that's after
boot2 is built. This causes installs to fail because at install time
boot2 is considered to be out of date and the programs to rebuild it are
no longer in the path.
Cope with this problem by just adding it to LDFLAGS instead.
Glanced at by: kevans ("I thought that went in ages ago")
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28876
When VECTX is enabled as a kernel option and non-EFI loaders are
built, many reads will fail due to the mis-match of whether
LOADER_VERIEXEC_VECTX or not in readin.h. Source that includes
bootstrap.h must ensure the kernel option agrees with the compile
time CFLAGS in the various make related files.
Submitted by: bret_ketchum@dell.com (original revision)
Reviewed by: sjg, bdrewery, dab, bret_ketchum@dell.com
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29993
Add a man page for gptboot.efi. Describe when and how to use this as it differs
from the BIOS cases. Include cross reference for the preferred method described
in efibootmgr(8) as well as cross links in both gptboot(8) and gptboot.efi(8) to
the other.
This man page was heavily copied from the gptboot.8 man page by Warren Block.
They are different enough to need separate man pages for clarity, but there's
enough similarity that I worry about the duplication. In the really long term,
gptboot(8) will disappear, so having the same info here will help when that
day comes. In the short to medium term, the information is likely to not
change in gptboot(8) and any changes to gptboot.efi(8) will be easier to
make in a separate copy.
loader.efi(8) needs a complete rewrite from scratch, otherwise I'd have
referenced gptboot.efi(8) from there.
Suggetions from: cress@, mhorne@
Reviewed by: rpokala@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29591
This warning is very rarely useful (inline is a hint and not mandatory).
This flag results in many warnings being printed when compiling C++
code that uses the standard library with GCC.
This flag was originally added in back in r94332 but the flag is a no-op
in Clang ("This diagnostic flag exists for GCC compatibility, and has no
effect in Clang"). Removing it should make the GCC build output slightly
more readable.
Reviewed By: jrtc27, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29235
Calculate font size from 16 density independent pixels (dp) by using:
size = 16 * ppi/160 * display_factor
We are specifying font size 16dp, and assuming 1dp = 160ppi.
Also apply scaling factor 2 (display_factor).
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28849
If we start with console set to comconsole, the local
console (vidconsole, efi) is never initialized and attempt to
use the data can render the loader hung.
Reported by: Kamigishi Rei
MFC after: 3 days
While I was there:
- Fix some typos
- Fix an excessive argument "indent" reported by mandoc -Tlint
- Replace a dead link with the one suggested by
https://www.uefi.org/uefi
Submitted by: linimon (in part)
Reviewed by: bcr
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27774
BORDER_PIXELS is left over from picking up the source from illumos
port. Since FreeBSD VT does not use border in terminal size
calculation, there is no reason why should loader use it.
MFC after: 1 week
All callers of bi_load64 pass 0 as the addr parameter, so just remove
it and always calculate the last load address from the module chain.
No functional change.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: tsoome, imp
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28412
There's a currently ad-hoc protocol to hand off the FreeBSD kernel
payload between the loader and the kernel itself when Xen is in the
middle of the picture. Such protocol wasn't very resilient to changes
to the loader itself, because it relied on moving metadata around to
package it using a certain layout. This has proven to be fragile, so
replace it with a more robust version.
The new protocol requires using a xen_header structure that will be
used to pass data between the FreeBSD loader and the FreeBSD kernel
when booting in dom0 mode. At the moment the only data conveyed is the
offset of the start of the module metadata relative to the start of the
module itself.
This is a slightly disruptive change since it also requires a change
to the kernel which is contained in this patch. In order to update
with this change the kernel must be updated before updating the
loader, as described in the handbook. Note this is only required when
booting a FreeBSD/Xen dom0. This change doesn't affect the normal
FreeBSD boot protocol.
This fixes booting FreeBSD/Xen in dom0 mode after
3630506b9daec9167a89bc4525638ea45a00769e.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28411
Handle malloc failures in vbe_init().
If it should so happen and we do get malloc failure in vbe_init(),
use original mode list.
Replace nitems with nentries to have naming consistency and avoid
confusion with nitems() macro.
Reported by: yuripv, rpokala
hw.vga.textmode is directing VT VGA backend to use text mode.
The default screen mode for BIOS loader is text, and default
screen mode for VT VGA backend is graphics (unless we are running on
hypervisor or hw.vga.textmode is set to 1). Using hw.vga.textmode
for loader does remove possibility to have graphical mode VT VGA with
text mode loader.
screen.textmode can have possible values "0" to disable text mode,
and "1" to set text mode.
