[PATCH v2 13/17] boot: Implement a priority for global bootmeths

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Oct 1 23:26:38 CEST 2025


Allow bootmeths to select when they want to run, using the bootdev
priority. Provide a new bootmeth_glob_allowed() function which checks if
a bootmeth is ready to use.

Fix a comment in bootflow_system() which is a test for global bootmeths.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

(no changes since v1)

 boot/bootflow.c    | 15 +++++++++++----
 include/bootflow.h |  2 +-
 include/bootmeth.h |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/boot/bootflow.c b/boot/bootflow.c
index 5080096cd11..d4c842c00fd 100644
--- a/boot/bootflow.c
+++ b/boot/bootflow.c
@@ -249,17 +249,24 @@ static void scan_next_in_uclass(struct udevice **devp)
  * bootmeth_glob_allowed() - Check if a global bootmeth is usable at this point
  *
  * @iter: Bootflow iterator being used
- * Return: true if the global bootmeth has not already been used
+ * Return: true if the global bootmeth has a suitable priority and has not
+ * already been used
  */
 static bool bootmeth_glob_allowed(struct bootflow_iter *iter, int meth_seq)
 {
 	struct udevice *meth = iter->method_order[meth_seq];
 	bool done = iter->methods_done & BIT(meth_seq);
+	struct bootmeth_uc_plat *ucp;
 
-	log_debug("considering glob '%s': done %d\n", meth->name, done);
+	ucp = dev_get_uclass_plat(meth);
+	log_debug("considering glob '%s': done %d glob_prio %d\n", meth->name,
+		  done, ucp->glob_prio);
 
-	/* if this one has already been used, try the next */
-	if (done)
+	/*
+	 * if this one has already been used, or its priority is too low, try
+	 * the next
+	 */
+	if (done || ucp->glob_prio > iter->cur_prio)
 		return false;
 
 	return true;
diff --git a/include/bootflow.h b/include/bootflow.h
index ec19f8dc436..10c22d15d52 100644
--- a/include/bootflow.h
+++ b/include/bootflow.h
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ enum {
  *	appear first, then the global ones, if any
  * @have_global: true if we have global bootmeths in @method_order[]
  * @doing_global: true if we are iterating through the global bootmeths (which
- *	happens before the normal ones)
+ *	generally happens before the normal ones)
  * @method_flags: flags controlling which methods should be used for this @dev
  * (enum bootflow_meth_flags_t)
  * @methods_done: indicates which methods have been processed, one bit for
diff --git a/include/bootmeth.h b/include/bootmeth.h
index 26de593a9a4..2a492dfd73a 100644
--- a/include/bootmeth.h
+++ b/include/bootmeth.h
@@ -30,10 +30,14 @@ enum bootmeth_flags {
  *
  * @desc: A long description of the bootmeth
  * @flags: Flags for this bootmeth (enum bootmeth_flags)
+ * @glob_prio: Priority for this bootmeth. If unset (0) the bootmeth is started
+ * before all other bootmeths. Otherwise it is started before the iteration
+ * reaches the given priority.
  */
 struct bootmeth_uc_plat {
 	const char *desc;
 	int flags;
+	enum bootdev_prio_t glob_prio;
 };
 
 /** struct bootmeth_ops - Operations for boot methods */
-- 
2.43.0



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