[pcbios] Do not switch to real mode to check for timer interrupt
The currticks() function is called at least once per TCP packet, and
so is performance-critical. Switching to real mode just to allow the
timer interrupt to fire is expensive when running inside a virtual
machine, and imposes a significant performance cost.
Fix by enabling interrupts without switching to real mode. This
results in an approximately 100% increase in download speed when
running under KVM.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We now have the ability to handle interrupts while in protected mode,
and so no longer need to set up a dedicated interrupt descriptor table
while running COM32 executables.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When running in a virtual machine, switching to real mode may be
expensive. Allow interrupts to be enabled while in protected mode and
reflected down to the real-mode interrupt handlers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow for an explicit debug level of zero, which will enable
assertions and profiling (i.e. anything controlled by NDEBUG) without
generating any debug messages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[librm] Use genuine real mode to accelerate operation in virtual machines
We currently use flat real mode wherever real mode is required. This
guarantees that we will not surprise some unsuspecting external caller
which has carefully set up flat real mode by suddenly reducing the
segment limits to 64kB.
However, operating in flat real mode imposes a severe performance
penalty in some virtualisation environments, since some CPUs cannot
fully virtualise flat real mode and so the hypervisor must fall back
to emulation. In particular, operating under KVM on a pre-Westmere
Intel CPU will be at least an order of magnitude slower, to the point
that there is a visible teletype effect when printing anything to the
BIOS console. (Older versions of KVM used to cheat and ignore the
"flat" part of flat real mode, which masked the problem.)
Switch (back) to using genuine real mode with 64kB segment limits
instead of flat real mode. Hopefully this won't break anything.
Add an explicit switch to flat real mode before returning to the BIOS
from the ROM prefix, since we know that a PMM BIOS will call the ROM
initialisation point (and potentially the BEV) in flat real mode.
As noted in previous commit messages, it is not possible to restore
the real-mode segment limits after a transition to protected mode,
since there is no way to know which protected-mode segment descriptor
was originally used to initialise the limit portion of the segment
register.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Inside a virtual machine, writing the RX ring tail pointer may incur a
substantial overhead of processing inside the hypervisor. Minimise
this overhead by writing the tail pointer once per batch of
descriptors, rather than once per descriptor.
Profiling under qemu-kvm (version 1.6.2) shows that this reduces the
amount of time taken to refill the RX descriptor ring by around 90%.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Operations which are negligible on physical hardware (such as issuing
a posted write to the transmit ring tail register) may involve
substantial amounts of processing within the hypervisor if running in
a virtual machine.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[test] Check for correct -mrtd assumption on libgcc arithmetic functions
As observed in commit 082cedb ("[build] Fix __libgcc attribute for
recent gcc versions"), recent versions of gcc have changed the
semantics of -mrtd as applied to the implicit arithmetic functions.
It is possible for tests to succeed even if our assumptions about
gcc's interpretation of -mrtd are incorrect. In particular, if gcc
chooses to utilise a frame pointer in the calling function, then it
can tolerate a temporarily incorrect stack pointer (since the stack
pointer will shortly afterwards be restored from the frame pointer
anyway).
Add tests designed specifically to check that our implementations of
the implicit arithmetic functions manipulate the stack pointer as
expected by gcc.
The effect of these tests can be observed by temporarily reverting
commit 082cedb ("[build] Fix __libgcc attribute for recent gcc
versions"): without this fix in place, the tests will fail on gcc 4.7
and later.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Fix __libgcc attribute for recent gcc versions
We observed some time ago (in commit 4ce8d61 "Import various libgcc
functions from syslinux") that gcc seems to treat calls to the
implicit arithmetic functions (e.g. __udivdi3()) as being affected by
-mregparm but unaffected by -mrtd.
This seems to be no longer the case with current gcc versions, which
treat calls to these functions as being affected by both -mregparm and
-mrtd, as expected.
There is nothing obvious in the gcc changelogs to indicate precisely
when this happened. From experimentation with available gcc versions,
the change occurred sometime between v4.6.3 and v4.7.2. We assume
that only versions up to v4.6.x require the special treatment.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
On a 32-bit system, 64-bit division is implemented using the libgcc
functions provided in __udivmoddi4.c etc. Calls to these functions
are generated automatically by gcc, with a calling convention that is
somewhat empirical in nature. Add these self-tests primarily as a
check that we are using the correct calling convention.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Escape sequences received via the serial console can fail since the
cpu_nap() in getchar_timeout() can delay processing for more than the
time it takes for a single character to arrive.
Fix by enabling the UART FIFOs.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[intel] Avoid completely filling the TX descriptor ring
It is unclear from the datasheets whether or not the TX ring can be
completely filled (i.e. whether writing the tail value as equal to the
current head value will cause the ring to be treated as completely
full or completely empty). It is very plausible that this edge case
could differ in behaviour between real hardware and the many
implementations of an emulated Intel NIC found in various virtual
machines. Err on the side of caution and always leave at least one
ring entry empty.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[crypto] Generalise X.509 cache to a full certificate store
Expand the concept of the X.509 cache to provide the functionality of
a certificate store. Certificates in the store will be automatically
used to complete certificate chains where applicable.
The certificate store may be prepopulated at build time using the
CERT=... build command line option. For example:
make bin/ipxe.usb CERT=mycert1.crt,mycert2.crt
Certificates within the certificate store are not implicitly trusted;
the trust list is specified using TRUST=... as before. For example:
make bin/ipxe.usb CERT=root.crt TRUST=root.crt
This can be used to embed the full trusted root certificate within the
iPXE binary, which is potentially useful in an HTTPS-only environment
in which there is no HTTP server from which to automatically download
cross-signed certificates or other certificate chain fragments.
This usage of CERT= extends the existing use of CERT= to specify the
client certificate. The client certificate is now identified
automatically by checking for a match against the private key. For
example:
make bin/ipxe.usb CERT=root.crt,client.crt TRUST=root.crt KEY=client.key
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Add dependency of generated files upon Makefile
Ensure that any generated files (such as DER forms of X.509
certificates) are rebuilt if the Makefile changes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Disable ccache for all relevant build targets
The build process currently attempts to disable ccache for files using
the .incbin directive, but the rule fails to apply to anything beyond
the simple object target. Fix by applying to all relevant build
targets (including debug objects, assembly listings, and so on).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[crypto] Remove dynamically-allocated storage for certificate name
iPXE currently allocates a copy the certificate's common name as a
string. This string is used by the TLS and CMS code to check
certificate names against an expected name, and also appears in
debugging messages.
Provide a function x509_check_name() to centralise certificate name
checking (in preparation for adding subjectAlternativeName support),
and a function x509_name() to provide a name to be used in debugging
messages, and remove the dynamically allocated string.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ocsp] Handle OCSP responses that don't provide certificates
Certificate authorities are not required to send the certificate used
to sign the OCSP response if the response is signed by the original
issuer.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[http] Accept Content-Length header with trailing whitespace
At least one HTTP server (Google's OCSP responder) has been observed
to generate a Content-Length header with trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[bios] Fix screen clearing on even more buggy BIOSes
Some BIOSes (observed with a ProLiant DL360p Gen8 SE) perform no range
checking whatsoever on the parameters passed to INT10,06 and will
therefore happily write to an area beyond the end of video RAM. The
area immediately following the video RAM tends to be the VGA BIOS ROM
image. Overwriting the VGA BIOS leads to an interesting variety of
crashes and reboots.
Fix by specifying an exact width and height to be cleared, rather than
passing in large values and relying upon the BIOS to truncate them to
the appropriate range.
Reported-by: Alex Davies <adavies@jumptrading.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
On an Asus Z87-K motherboard with an onboard 8168 NIC, booting into
Windows 7 and then warm rebooting into iPXE results in a broken RX
datapath: packets can be transmitted successfully but garbage is
received. A cold reboot clears the problem.
A dump of the PHY registers reveals only one difference: in the
failure case the bits ADVERTISE_PAUSE_CAP and ADVERTISE_PAUSE_ASYM are
cleared. Explicitly setting these bits does not fix the problem.
A dump of the MAC registers reveals a few differences, of which the
most obvious culprit is the undocumented bit 24 of the Receive
Configuration Register (RCR), which is set in the failure case.
Explicitly clearing this bit does fix the problem.
Reported-by: Sebastian Nielsen <ipxe@sebbe.eu>
Reported-by: Oliver Rath <rath@mglug.de>
Debugged-by: Sebastian Nielsen <ipxe@sebbe.eu>
Tested-by: Sebastian Nielsen <ipxe@sebbe.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[efi] Disable SNP devices when running iPXE as the application
Some UEFI builds will set up a timer to continuously poll any SNP
devices. This can drain packets from the network device's receive
queue before iPXE gets a chance to process them.
Use netdev_rx_[un]freeze() to explicitly indicate when we expect our
network devices to be driven via the external SNP API (as we do with
the UNDI API on the standard BIOS build), and disable the SNP API
except when receive queue processing is frozen.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
EFIRC() uses PLATFORM_TO_ERRNO(), which evaluates its argument twice
(and can't trivially use a braced-group expression or an inline
function to avoid this, since it gets used outside of function
context).
The expression "EFIRC(main())" will therefore end up calling main()
twice, which is not the intended behaviour. Every other instance of
EFIRC() is of the simple form "EFIRC(rc)", so fix by converting this
instance to match.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[lotest] Allow loopback testing on shared networks
Allow for extraneous packets to be received during loopback testing,
and so permit loopback tests to be performed when ports are connected
to a switch (rather than requiring ports to be directly connected with
a loopback cable).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Fix display of characters with top bit set
Inhibit implicit sign-padding of characters with the top bit set
(e.g. accented characters), which confuses the mucurses library by
colliding with the bits used to store character attributes and
colours.
Reported-by: Marc Delisle <Marc.Delisle@cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown