[U-Boot] [PATCH] efi_loader: Fix disk dp's for pre-DM/legacy devices

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 18:20:36 UTC 2017


On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 01:06:26PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 12:06:24PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:17:18AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>> >> >> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>> >> >> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 06:52:18AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>> >> >> >> > On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 11:33:08AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> This fixes an issue with OpenBSD's bootloader, and I think should also
>> >> >> >> >> fix a similar issue with grub2 on legacy devices.  In the legacy case
>> >> >> >> >> we were creating disk objects for the partitions, but not also the
>> >> >> >> >> parent device.
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Reported-by: Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au>
>> >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Thanks for looking into this.  While this lets armv7/bootarm.efi
>> >> >> >> > boot again on cubox-i and bbb it doesn't help rpi3.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > What is the easiest way to get U-Boot to display these paths
>> >> >> >> > to be able to compare the current behaviour to 2017.09?
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> in grub, there is the lsefi command, not sure if the OpenBSD
>> >> >> >> bootloader has something similar?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> u-boot implements that device-path to text protocol, so it should be
>> >> >> >> pretty easy to implement something like this if not.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> BR,
>> >> >> >> -R
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > With git + your patch a node with type 4 (DEVICE_PATH_TYPE_MEDIA_DEVICE)
>> >> >> > is no longer seen.  Is it possible having U-Boot on mmc but directing
>> >> >> > it to load off usb is somehow involved here?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> There is no requirement that efi payload and u-boot are on the same
>> >> >> device.  The distro bootcmd stuff will just look for
>> >> >> /efi/boot/bootxyz.efi on all the devices/partitions until it finds
>> >> >> one.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The dp for the partition device should end in MEDIA_DEVICE:HARD_DRIVE
>> >> >> or MEDIA_DEVICE:CDROM.  What comes before that differs depending on DM
>> >> >> or legacy boards, in the former case we can construct something more
>> >> >> realistic.  Although the bootloader shouldn't really care.
>> >> >
>> >> > I only see MEDIA_DEVICE with U-Boot 2017.09.  The latest code
>> >> > in master only gives types of 1 (Hardware Device Path) and
>> >> > 3 (Messaging Device Path).
>> >> >
>> >> > It is DM in this case:
>> >>
>> >> Possibly something weird with your partition table?  In
>> >> efi_disk_register() it should create objects for the disk itself
>> >> (part==0, no MEDIA_DEVICE nodes in the dp), as well as for each
>> >> partition (part>=1, which would have same dp as the disk but
>> >> additional MEDIA_DEVICE:HARD_DRIVE or MEDIA_DEVICE:CDROM node).
>> >>
>> >> If part_get_info() fails for part==1 then you won't get any of the
>> >> partition devices.  I suppose this could happen if you an unknown
>> >> partition table type, or u-boot is not built w/ the correct partition
>> >> driver.
>> >>
>> >> BR,
>> >> -R
>> >
>> > It is partitioned mbr style.
>> >
>> > U-Boot> part list mmc 0
>> >
>> > Partition Map for MMC device 0  --   Partition Type: DOS
>> >
>> > Part    Start Sector    Num Sectors     UUID            Type
>> >   1     8192            8192            00000000-01     0c Boot
>> >   4     16384           26624           00000000-04     a6
>> > U-Boot> part list usb 0
>>
>> perhaps jumping from partition #1 to #4 is what is confusing things
>> here?  It's possible you end up with a partition "diskobj" for
>> partition #1 but not #4?
>>
>> Try adding a print in efi_disk_register() and see how many times we go
>> thru the while(!part_get_info()) loop.
>
> Indeed, it seems to only end up calling efi_disk_add_dev() for
> part 1 in that loop:
>
> ## Starting EFI application at 01000000 ...
> Scanning disk sdhci at 7e300000.blk...
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> efi_disk_register calling efi_disk_add_dev for part 1
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> Scanning disk usb_mass_storage.lun0...
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> efi_disk_register calling efi_disk_add_dev for part 1
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> Found 2 disks
>
> If I change the code there to match other callers of part_get_info()
> I get a MEDIA_DEVICE type and can boot.

Ok, this makes sense now.  There is one more loop to fix in the
non-DM/BLK case (well, the one added by this patch, which I think
agraf has already applied).

Care to send a patch?

BR,
-R

> ## Starting EFI application at 01000000 ...
> Scanning disk sdhci at 7e300000.blk...
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> efi_disk_register calling efi_disk_add_dev for part 1
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> efi_disk_register calling efi_disk_add_dev for part 4
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> Scanning disk usb_mass_storage.lun0...
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> efi_disk_register calling efi_disk_add_dev for part 1
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> efi_disk_register calling efi_disk_add_dev for part 4
> ## Valid DOS partition found ##
> Found 2 disks
> efi_diskprobe
> efi_device_path_depth looking for type 4 i=0 type 1
> efi_device_path_depth looking for type 4 i=1 type 3
> efi_device_path_depth looking for type 4 i=2 type 3
> efi_device_path_depth looking for type 4 i=3 type 3
> efi_device_path_depth looking for type 4 i=4 type 4
> depth=4
> i=0
>
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c
> index eb9ce772d1..d34a5b3e5e 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c
> @@ -254,18 +254,20 @@ static int efi_disk_create_eltorito(struct blk_desc *desc,
>  #if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(ISO_PARTITION)
>         char devname[32] = { 0 }; /* dp->str is u16[32] long */
>         disk_partition_t info;
> -       int part = 1;
> +       int part, ret;
>
>         if (desc->part_type != PART_TYPE_ISO)
>                 return 0;
>
>         /* and devices for each partition: */
> -       while (!part_get_info(desc, part, &info)) {
> +       for (part = 1; part <= MAX_SEARCH_PARTITIONS; part++) {
> +               ret = part_get_info(desc, part, &info);
> +               if (ret)
> +                       continue;
>                 snprintf(devname, sizeof(devname), "%s:%d", pdevname,
>                          part);
>                 efi_disk_add_dev(devname, if_typename, desc, diskid,
>                                  info.start, part);
> -               part++;
>                 disks++;
>         }
>
> @@ -299,15 +301,18 @@ int efi_disk_register(void)
>                 struct blk_desc *desc = dev_get_uclass_platdata(dev);
>                 const char *if_typename = dev->driver->name;
>                 disk_partition_t info;
> -               int part = 1;
> +               int part, ret;
>
>                 printf("Scanning disk %s...\n", dev->name);
>
>                 /* add devices for each partition: */
> -               while (!part_get_info(desc, part, &info)) {
> +               for (part = 1; part <= MAX_SEARCH_PARTITIONS; part++) {
> +                       ret = part_get_info(desc, part, &info);
> +                       if (ret)
> +                               continue;
> +printf("%s calling efi_disk_add_dev for part %d\n", __func__, part);
>                         efi_disk_add_dev(dev->name, if_typename, desc,
>                                          desc->devnum, 0, part);
> -                       part++;
>                 }
>
>                 /* ... and add block device: */


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