[PATCH] menu: fix the logic checking whether ESC key is pressed

Weijie Gao (高惟杰) Weijie.Gao at mediatek.com
Mon Oct 21 11:17:55 CEST 2024


On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 02:07 -0700, E Shattow wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 8:03 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Weijie,
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 02:38, Weijie Gao <weijie.gao at mediatek.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's observed that the bootmenu on a serial console sometimes
> > > incorrectly quitted with superfluous characters filled to command
> > > line input:
> > >
> > > >  *** U-Boot Boot Menu ***
> > > >
> > > >      1. Startup system (Default)
> > > >      2. Upgrade firmware
> > > >      3. Upgrade ATF BL2
> > > >      4. Upgrade ATF FIP
> > > >      5. Load image
> > > >      0. U-Boot console
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  Press UP/DOWN to move, ENTER to select, ESC to quit
> > > >MT7988> [B
> > >
> > > Analysis shows it was caused by the wrong logic of bootmenu_loop:
> > >
> > > At first the bootmenu_loop received the first ESC char correctly.
> > >
> > > However, during the second call to bootmenu_loop, there's no data
> > > in the UART Rx FIFO. Due to the low baudrate, the second char of
> > > the down array key sequence hasn't be fully received.
> > >
> > > But bootmenu_loop just did a mdelay(10), and then treated it as a
> > > single ESC key press event. It didn't even try tstc() again after
> > > the 10ms timeout.
> > >
> > > This patch fixes this issue by letting bootmenu_loop check tstc()
> > > twice.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Weijie Gao <weijie.gao at mediatek.com>
> > > ---
> > >  common/menu.c | 5 +++--
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/common/menu.c b/common/menu.c
> > > index 5fd705039fc..bd2ac3e0ed9 100644
> > > --- a/common/menu.c
> > > +++ b/common/menu.c
> > > @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ enum bootmenu_key bootmenu_loop(struct
> bootmenu_data *menu,
> > >                                 struct cli_ch_state *cch)
> > >  {
> > >         enum bootmenu_key key;
> > > -       int c;
> > > +       int c, errchar = 0;
> > >         int choice;
> > >
> > >         c = cli_ch_process(cch, 0);
> > > @@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ enum bootmenu_key bootmenu_loop(struct
> bootmenu_data *menu,
> > >                 while (!c && !tstc()) {
> > >                         schedule();
> > >                         mdelay(10);
> > > -                       c = cli_ch_process(cch, -ETIMEDOUT);
> > > +                       c = cli_ch_process(cch, errchar);
> > > +                       errchar = -ETIMEDOUT;
> > >                 }
> > >                 if (!c) {
> > >                         c = getchar();
> > > --
> > > 2.34.1
> > >
> >
> > This looks reasonable from a first glance, but please can you
> rebase
> > on -master ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon
> 
> Does this affect eficonfig menu ? I was having some intermittent
> trouble about the eficonfig menu quitting suddenly before this patch.
> With this fix applied it's no worse but maybe better, I tried for
> some
> minutes to reproduce the previous behaviour and was not able to make
> the glitch happen.

I don't have efi environment to test. But I do see this function be
called in eficonfig.c (eficonfig_choice_change_boot_order). So I
believe this will affect eficonfig menu.

> 
> Tested-By: E Shattow <lucent at gmail.com>


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