With r342151 I did fix the BIOS version of zfs_probe_dev() from accessing
the whole disk, but the fix was not complete - we actually did not check
if the device name was really for whole disk. Since UEFI version
is only calling the zfs_probe_dev() with partitions and not with whole
disk, the UEFI loader was not able to find the zfs pools.
This update does correct the issue by calling archsw.arch_getdev() to
translate the device name back to dev_desc, and we have whole disk when both
partition and slice values are -1.
Reported by: alvisen_gmail.com
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18558
First of all, normal setups can not boot such pools as the tools
do not support installing boot programs.
Secondly, for proper pool configuration detection, we need to checks all
four label copies on disk, 2 from front and 2 from the end of the disk,
but zfs label does not contain the size of the disk - so we depend on
firmware to report the correct disk size or use information from the
partition table.
Without partition table, we only can rely on firmware to report and support
disk IO properly.
There is a specific case: 8TB disks are reported by BIOS to have 4294967295
sectors (0x00000000ffffffff), the sectors reported by OS is 15628053168
(0x00000003a3812ab0), so the reported size is less than actual but is hitting
32-bit max. Unfortuantely the real limit must be even lower because probing
this disk in this system will wnd up with hung system.
UEFI boot of this system seems not to be affected.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18558
of args data between gptboot/zfsboot and loader(8).
Despite what seems like a lot of changes here, there are no actual
changes in behavior, or in the data layout in the structures involved.
This is just eliminating identical code pasted into multiple locations.
In detail, the changes are...
- Move struct zfs_boot_args definition from libsa/zfs/libzfs.h to
i386/common/bootargs.h because it is specific to x86 booting and the
handoff between zfsboot and loader, and has no relation to the zfs
library code in general.
- The geli_boot_args and zfs_boot_args structs both contain an identical
set of member variables containing geli information. Extract this out
to a new geli_boot_data struct, and embed it in the arg-passing structs.
- Provide new routines geli_import_boot_data() and geli_export_boot_data()
that can be shared between gptboot, zfsboot, and loader instead of
pasting identical code into several different .c files.
- Remove some checks for a NULL pointer that can never be true because the
pointer being tested was set using pointer math (kargs + 1) and that can
never result in NULL in this code.
Move the libzfs stuff into libsa. There's no need for it to be a
separate library. The separate library adds to the issues of build
ordering that we see from time to time. Move the filesystem support
into libsa, like all the other filesystem support rather than making
zfs the odd-duck out.
Discussed with: allanjude@
