- 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.
redzone below the stack pointer for scratch space and requires
interrupt and signal frames to avoid overwriting it. However, EFI uses
the Windows ABI which does not support this. As a result, interrupt
handlers in EFI push their interrupt frames directly on top of the
stack pointer. If the compiler used the red zone in a function in the
EFI loader, then a device interrupt that occurred while that function
was running could trash its local variables. In practice this happens
fairly reliable when using gzipfs as an interrupt during decompression
can trash the local variables in the inflate_table() function
resulting in corrupted output or hangs.
Fix this by disabling the redzone for amd64 EFI binaries. This
requires building not only the loader but any libraries used by the
loader without redzone support.
Thanks to Jilles for pointing me at the redzone once I found the stack
corruption.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2054
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.
In UEFI it appears all available NICS are present to pass network traffic.
This gives the capability to load the loader.efi from disk then set
currdev="net3:" and then all I/O will over over the 2nd NIC. On this
machine is appears the first handle is the first NIC in IPv4 mode and
then the 2nd handle is the first NIC in IPv6 mode. The 3rd handle is
the 2nd NIC in IPv4 mode. The fix is to index into the handle based
on the unit cached from boot device passed into the loader.
Some testing info from a test boot via kenv:
currdev="net3:"
loaddev="net3:"
boot.netif.name="igb1"
__attribute__((format(...))), and the -fformat-extensions flag was
removed, introduce a new macro in bsd.sys.mk to choose the right variant
of compile flag for the used compiler, and use it.
Also add something similar to kern.mk, since including bsd.sys.mk from
that file will anger Warner. :-)
Note that bsd.sys.mk does not support the MK_FORMAT_EXTENSIONS knob used
in kern.mk, since that knob is only available in kern.opts.mk, not in
src.opts.mk. We might want to add it later, to more easily support
external compilers for building world (in particular, sys/boot).
The loader previously failed to display on MacBooks and other systems
where the UEFI firmware remained in graphics mode.
Submitted by: Rafael Espíndola
r247216:
Add the ability for a device to have an "alias" handle.
r247379:
Fix network device registration.
r247380:
Adjust our load device when we boot from CD under UEFI.
The process for booting from a CD under UEFI involves adding a FAT
filesystem containing your loader code as an El Torito boot image.
When UEFI detects this, it provides a block IO instance that points
at the FAT filesystem as a child of the device that represents the CD
itself. The problem being that the CD device is flagged as a "raw
device" while the boot image is flagged as a "logical partition".
The existing EFI partition code only looks for logical partitions and
so the CD filesystem was rendered invisible.
To fix this, check the type of each block IO device. If it's found to
be a CD, and thus an El Torito boot image, look up its parent device
and add that instead so that the loader will then load the kernel from
the CD filesystem. This is done by using the handle for the boot
filesystem as an alias.
Something similar to this will be required for booting from other media
as well as the loader will live in the EFI system partition, not on the
partition containing the kernel.
r247381:
Remove a scatalogical debug printf that crept in.
Add support for Pre-Boot Virtual Memory (PBVM) to the loader.
PBVM allows us to link the kernel at a fixed virtual address without
having to make any assumptions about the physical memory layout. On
the SGI Altix 350 for example, there's no usuable physical memory
below 192GB. Also, the PBVM allows us to control better where we're
going to physically load the kernel and its modules so that we can
make sure we load the kernel in memory that's close to the BSP.
The PBVM is managed by a simple page table. The minimum size of the
page table is 4KB (EFI page size) and the maximum is currently set
to 1MB. A page in the PBVM is 64KB, as that's the maximum alignment
one can specify in a linker script. The bottom line is that PBVM is
between 64KB and 8GB in size.
The loader maps the PBVM page table at a fixed virtual address and
using a single translations. The PBVM itself is also mapped using a
single translation for a maximum of 32MB.
While here, increase the heap in the EFI loader from 512KB to 2MB
and set the stage for supporting relocatable modules.
as this only allows us to access file systems that EFI knows about.
With a loader that can only use EFI-supported file systems, we're
forced to put /boot on the EFI system partition. This is suboptimal
in the following ways:
1. With /boot a symlink to /efi/boot, mergemaster complains about
the mismatch and there's no quick solution.
2. The EFI loader can only boot a single version of FreeBSD. There's
no way to install multiple versions of FreeBSD and select one
at the loader prompt.
3. ZFS maintains /boot/zfs/zpool.cache and with /boot a symlink we
end up with the file on a MSDOS file system. ZFS does not have
proper handling of file systems that are under Giant.
Implement a disk device based on the block I/O protocol instead and
pull in file system code from libstand. The disk devices are really
the partitions that EFI knows about.
This change is backward compatible.
MFC after: 1 week
1. Make libefi portable by removing ia64 specific code and build
it on i386 and amd64 by default to prevent regressions. These
changes include fixes and improvements over previous code to
establish or improve APIs where none existed or when the amount
of kluging was unacceptably high.
2. Increase the amount of sharing between the efi and ski loaders
to improve maintainability of the loaders and simplify making
changes to the loader-kernel handshaking in the future.
The version of the efi and ski loaders are now both changed to 1.2
as user visible improvements and changes have been made.
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.
we construct the EFI image. It doesn't seem to actually end up
in the EFI image, AFAICT.
o Replace .quad, .long and .short with data8, data4 and data2 resp.
The former are gnuisms.
o Redefine _start_plabel as a data16 with @iplt(_start) as its
value. This is the preferred way to create user PLT entries.
binutils 2.15. The linker now creates a .rela.dyn section for
dynamic relocations, while our script created a .rela section.
Likewise, we copied the .rela section to the EFI image, but not
the .rela.dyn section. The fix is to rename .rela to .rela.dyn
in the linker script so that all relocations end up in the same
section again. This we copy into the EFI image.
EFI file system. When booting from a CD and there's already an EFI
system partition on the disk, setting the current device to unit 0
will select the harddisk. This invariably breaks installing FreeBSD
when other operating systems have been installed before.
We obviously want to do the same when we're booting over the network.
Maybe later.
Based on a patch (from memory) from: arun
things over floppy size limits, I can exclude it for release builds or
something like that. Most of the changes are to get the load_elf.c file
into a seperate elf32_ or elf64_ namespace so that you can have two
ELF loaders present at once. Note that for 64 bit kernels, it actually
starts up the kernel already in 64 bit mode with paging enabled. This
is really easy because we have a known minimum feature set.
Of note is that for amd64, we have to pass in the bios int 15 0xe821
memory map because once in long mode, you absolutely cannot make VM86
calls. amd64 does not use 'struct bootinfo' at all. It is a pure loader
metadata startup, just like sparc64 and powerpc. Much of the
infrastructure to support this was adapted from sparc64.
introduce a preprocessor define for it. The larger block size
significantly speeds up the loading of the kernel.
Submitted by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
