[tcp] Allow out-of-order receive queue to be discarded
Allow packets in the receive queue to be discarded in order to free up
memory. This avoids a potential deadlock condition in which the
missing packet can never be received because the receive queue is
occupying all of the memory available for further RX buffers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add a facility allowing cached data to be discarded in order to
satisfy memory allocations that would otherwise fail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Maintain a queue of received packets, so that lost packets need not
result in retransmission of the entire TCP window.
Increase the TCP window to 8kB, in order that we can potentially
transmit enough duplicate ACKs to trigger Fast Retransmission at the
sender.
Using a 10MB HTTP download in qemu-kvm with an artificial drop rate of
1 in 64 packets, this reduces the download time from around 26s to
around 4s.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[virtio] Replace virtio-net with native iPXE driver
This patch adds a native iPXE virtio-net driver and removes the legacy
Etherboot virtio-net driver. The main reasons for doing this are:
1. Multiple virtio-net NICs are now supported by iPXE. The legacy
driver kept global state and caused issues in virtual machines with
more than one virtio-net device.
2. Faster downloads. The native iPXE driver downloads 100 MB over
HTTP in 12s, the legacy Etherboot driver in 37s. This simple
benchmark uses KVM with tap networking and the Python
SimpleHTTPServer both running on the same host.
Changes to core virtio code reduce vring descriptors to 256 (QEMU uses
128 for virtio-blk and 256 for virtio-net) and change the opaque token
from u16 to void*. Lowering the descriptor count reduces memory
consumption. The void* opaque token change makes driver code simpler.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Weak functions whose visibility is hidden may be inlined due to a bug
in GCC. Explicitly mark weak functions noinline to work around the
problem.
This makes the PXE_MENU config option work again, the PXE boot menu
was never being called because the compiler inlined a weak stub
function.
The GCC bug was identified and fixed by Richard Sandiford
<rdsandiford@googlemail.com> but in the meantime iPXE needs to
implement a workaround.
Reported-by: Steve Jones <steve@squaregoldfish.co.uk>
Reported-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
Suggested-by: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@rwcr.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[hci] Continue processing while prompting for shell banner
Continue calling step() while displaying the shell banner. This
potentially allows TCP connections to close gracefully after a failed
boot attempt.
Inspired-by: Guo-Fu Tseng <cooldavid@cooldavid.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[debug] Expose pause() and more() debugging functions
Include the pause() and more() debugging functions within the general
iPXE debugging framework, by introducing DBGxxx_PAUSE() and
DBGxxx_MORE() macros.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
putline() was introduced back in 2007 for a feature that was never
committed. No console driver implements it and no code calls it, so
remove it from struct console_driver.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add a PCI_CAP_ID_VNDR definition for the PCI standard "Vendor
Specific" capability ID.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Since more reference-counted structures than embedded images might
want to mark themselves unfreeable, expose a dummy ref_no_free().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[interface] Allow for non-pass-through interface methods
xfer_vredirect() should not be allowed to propagate to a pass-through
interface. For example, when an HTTPS connection is opened, the
redirect message should cause the TLS layer to reopen the TCP socket,
rather than causing the HTTP layer to disconnect from the TLS layer.
Fix by allowing for non-pass-through interface methods, and setting
xfer_vredirect() to be one such method.
This is slightly ugly, in that it complicates the notion of an
interface method call by adding a "pass-through" / "non-pass-through"
piece of metadata. However, the only current user of xfer_vredirect()
is iscsi.c, which uses it only because we don't yet have an
ioctl()-style call for retrieving the underlying socket address.
The new interface infrastructure allows for such a call to be created,
at which time this sole user of xfer_vredirect() can be removed,
xfer_vredirect() can cease to be an interface method and become simply
a wrapper around xfer_vreopen(), and the concept of a non-pass-through
interface method can be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[interface] Convert all data-xfer interfaces to generic interfaces
Remove data-xfer as an interface type, and replace data-xfer
interfaces with generic interfaces supporting the data-xfer methods.
Filter interfaces (as used by the TLS layer) are handled using the
generic pass-through interface capability. A side-effect of this is
that deliver_raw() no longer exists as a data-xfer method. (In
practice this doesn't lose any efficiency, since there are no
instances within the current codebase where xfer_deliver_raw() is used
to pass data to an interface supporting the deliver_raw() method.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[interface] Convert all name-resolution interfaces to generic interfaces
Remove name-resolution as an interface type, and replace
name-resolution interfaces with generic interfaces supporting the
resolv_done() method.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[interface] Convert all job-control interfaces to generic interfaces
Remove job-control as an interface type, and replace job-control
interfaces with generic interfaces supporting the close() method.
(Both done() and kill() are absorbed into the function of close();
kill() is merely close(-ECANCELED).)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[interface] Expand object interface to allow for polymorphic interfaces
We have several types of object interface at present (data-xfer, job
control, name resolution), and there is some duplication of
functionality between them. For example, job_done(), job_kill() and
xfer_close() are almost isomorphic to each other.
This updated version of the object interface mechanism allows for each
interface to export an arbitrary list of supported operations.
Advantages include:
Operations methods now receive a pointer to the object, rather than
a pointer to the interface. This allows an object to, for example,
implement a single close() method that can handle close() operations
from any of its exposed interfaces.
The close() operation is implemented as a generic operation (rather
than having specific variants for data-xfer, job control, etc.).
This will allow functions such as monojob_wait() to be used to wait
for e.g. a name resolution to complete.
The amount of boilerplate code required in objects is reduced, not
least because it is no longer necessary to include per-interface
methods that simply use container_of() to derive a pointer to the
object and then tail-call to a common per-object method.
The cost of adding new operations is reduced; adding a new data-xfer
operation such as stat() no longer incurs the penalty of adding a
.stat member to the operations table of all existing data-xfer
interfaces.
The data-xfer, job control and name resolution interfaces have not yet
been updated to use the new interface mechanism, but the code will
still compile and run.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Standardise on using timer_init() to initialise an embedded retry
timer, to match the coding style used by other embedded objects.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Standardise on using ref_init() to initialise an embedded reference
count, to match the coding style used by other embedded objects.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add a new network driver that consumes the EFI Simple Network
Protocol. Also add a bus driver that can find the Simple Network
Protocol that iPXE was loaded from; the resulting behavior is similar
to the "undionly" driver for BIOS systems.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[legal] Add FILE_LICENCE declarations to EFI header files
Autodetect the BSD licence statement in EFI header files, and add a
suitable FILE_LICENCE macro to the version imported into the iPXE
tree.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Now that the PACKED macro conflict is resolved, we can use an
unmodified import of the EFI header files (using
include/ipxe/efi/import.pl).
Synchronised to EDK2 SVN revision 10556.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Most of iPXE uses __attribute__((packed)) anyway, and PACKED conflicts
with an identically-named macro in the upstream EFI header files.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Use weak definitions instead of weak declarations
This removes the need for inline safety wrappers, marginally reducing
the size penalty of weak functions, and works around an apparent
binutils bug that causes undefined weak symbols to not actually be
NULL when compiling with -fPIE (as EFI builds do).
A bug in versions of binutils prior to 2.16 (released in 2005) will
cause same-file weak definitions to not work with those
toolchains. Update the README to reflect our new dependency on
binutils >= 2.16.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@rwcr.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some switch configurations will refuse to enable our port unless we
can speak LACP to inform the switch that we are alive. Add a very
simple passive LACP implementation that is sufficient to convince at
least Linux's bonding driver (when tested using qemu attached to a tap
device enslaved to a bond device configured as "mode=802.3ad").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
This commit adds an igb (Intel GigaBit) driver based on Intel source
code available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/
which is upstream source for the Linux kernel e1000 drivers, and
should support some PCIe e1000 variants.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
This commit adds an e1000e driver based on Intel source code
available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/
which is upstream source for the Linux kernel e1000 drivers, and
should support many PCIe e1000 variants.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
This commit replaces the current gPXE e1000 driver with one ported
from Intel source code available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/
which is upstream source for the Linux kernel e1000 drivers, and
should support most if not all PCI e1000 variants.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The NMB protocol code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated
to work as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol,
so this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The IGMP code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated to work
as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol, so this
patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The NFS protocol code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated
to work as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol,
so this patch removes it.
I have an unfinished NFSv3 over TCP implementation for gPXE that can be
used as the base for new work, should we want to resurrect this
protocol.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
Currently, handling of URI escapes is ad-hoc; escaped strings are
stored as-is in the URI structure, and it is up to the individual
protocol to unescape as necessary. This is error-prone and expensive
in terms of code size. Modify this behavior by unescaping in
parse_uri() and escaping in unparse_uri() those fields that typically
handle URI escapes (hostname, user, password, path, query, fragment),
and allowing unparse_uri() to accept a subset of fields to print so
it can be easily used to generate e.g. the escaped HTTP path?query
request.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@rwcr.net>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
For extremely tight space requirements and specific applications, it is
sometimes desirable to create gPXE images that cannot provide the PXE API
functionality to client programs. Add a configuration header option,
PXE_STACK, that can be removed to remove this stack. Also add PXE_MENU
to control the PXE boot menu, which most uses of gPXE do not need.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
[dhcp] Add generic facility for using cached network settings
When a DHCP session is started (using autoboot or a command-line `dhcp
net0'), check whether the new setting use-cached (DHCP option 175.178)
is TRUE; if so, skip DHCP and rely on currently registered
settings. This lets one combine a static IP with autoboot.
Before checking the use-cached setting, call a weak
get_cached_dhcpack() hook that can be implemented by particular builds
of gPXE supporting some fashion of retrieving a cached DHCPACK packet.
If one is available, it is registered as an options source, and then
either that packet's option 175.178 or the user's prior manual
use-cached setting can allow skipping duplicate DHCP.
Using cached packets is not the default because DHCP servers are often
configured to give gPXE different options than they give a vendor PXE
client; in order to break the infinite loop of PXE chaining, one would
need to load a gPXE with an embedded image that does something more
than autoboot.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
Weak symbols are a useful tool in eliminating unnecessary dependencies
between object files, but they are somewhat dangerous because one must
remember to test the weak symbol against NULL before using it. To
rectify that, add macros for declaring weak functions that will return
a default value inline if the file defining them is not available at
link time.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
This code is based on the linux skge driver. It supports Marvell Yukon
and SysKonnect Gigabit chipsets.
The code is based on code Michael Decker <mrd999@gmail.com> wrote for
Google Summer of Code 2008.
Support for dual-port cards is untested. The code, however, was left
in. In my opinion it's easier to fix the code if we need to, instead
of having to add support for it from scratch.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
Michael Brown