[forcedeth] Increase TX ring size to prevent dropped packets
Commit 947976d ("[netdevice] Do not force a poll on net_tx()")
requires network devices to have TX rings that are sufficiently large
to allow a transmitted response to all packets received during a
single poll.
Reported-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Tested-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[intel] Poll RX queue if hardware reports RX overflow
The Intel NIC emulation in some versions of VMware seems to suffer
from a flaw whereby the Interrupt Cause Register (ICR) fails to assert
the usual "packet received" bit (ICR.RXT0) if a receive overflow
(ICR.RXO) has also occurred.
Work around this flaw by polling for completed descriptors whenever
either ICR.RXT0 or ICR.RXO is asserted.
Reported-by: Miroslav Halas <miroslav.halas@bankofamerica.com>
Debugged-by: Miroslav Halas <miroslav.halas@bankofamerica.com>
Tested-by: Miroslav Halas <miroslav.halas@bankofamerica.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Clear network device setting before unregistering
Avoid memory leaks by clearing any (non-child) settings immediately
before unregistering the network device settings block.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Prefill existing setting value in "read" command
When prompting the user to enter a setting value via the "read"
command, prefill the input buffer with the setting's current value.
Requested-by: Ján Ondrej (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.ks>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Including a netdev_poll() within net_tx() can cause the net_step()
loop to end up processing hundreds or thousands of packets within a
single step, since each received packet being processed may trigger a
response which, in turn causes a poll for further received packets.
Network devices must now ensure that the TX ring is at least as large
as the RX ring, in order to avoid running out of TX descriptors. This
should not cause any problems; unlike the RX ring, there is no
substantial memory cost incurred by increasing the TX ring size.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[autoboot] Avoid excess backspacing after displaying Ctrl-B prompt
Remove the newline from the "Press Ctrl-B..." prompt string, so that
prompt() does not attempt to backspace beyond the start of the line.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[test] Remove self-test for empty formatted setting value
Commit 5ad445f ("[settings] Treat an empty formatted value as meaning
"delete setting"") (re)defined the semantics of storing an empty
formatted setting as meaning "delete setting".
Remove the existing self-test using an empty formatted hex setting
value, since it no longer conforms to the defined semantics.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Take ownership from the ARP cache at the start of arp_destroy(), to
ensure that no code path can lead to arp_destroy() being re-entered.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[serial] Don't enable serial console without serial support
serial_console_init() would enable serial console support without
knowing if the serial driver succeeded or not. As a result, the
serial console would interfere with a normal keyboard on a system
lacking serial support.
Reported-by: Jan ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj(at)salstar.sk>
Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[int13] Do not zero %edx when jumping to a boot sector
Commit 73eb3f1 ("[int13] Zero all possible registers when jumping to a
boot sector") introduced a regression preventing the SAN-booting of
boot sectors which rely upon %dl containing the correct drive number
(such as most CD-ROM boot sectors).
Fix by not zeroing %edx.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[tls] Split received records over multiple I/O buffers
TLS servers are not obliged to implement the RFC3546 maximum fragment
length extension, and many common servers (including OpenSSL, as used
in Apache's mod_ssl) do not do so. iPXE may therefore have to cope
with TLS records of up to 16kB. Allocations for 16kB have a
non-negligible chance of failing, causing the TLS connection to abort.
Fix by maintaining the received record as a linked list of I/O
buffers, rather than a single contiguous buffer. To reduce memory
pressure, we also decrypt in situ, and deliver the decrypted data via
xfer_deliver_iob() rather than xfer_deliver_raw().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[efi] Provide guaranteed space in transmitted packets
eIPoIB requires space to expand a transmitted ARP packet. This
guarantee is met by ensuring that a transmitted packet consists of at
least MAX_LL_HEADER_LEN bytes from the start of the I/O buffer up to
the end of the link-layer header, and at least IOB_ZLEN bytes
thereafter.
Adjust the I/O buffer allocation for SNP transmitted packets to ensure
that this guarantee is met.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[int13] Zero all possible registers when jumping to a boot sector
At least one boot sector (the DUET boot sector used for bootstrapping
EFI from a non-EFI system) fails to initialise the high words of
registers before using them in calculations, leading to undefined
behaviour.
Work around such broken boot sectors by explicitly zeroing the
contents of all registers apart from %cs:%ip and %ss:%sp.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Use a generic setting's own type as its default type
When fetching a named setting using a name that does not explicitly
specify a type, default to using the type stored when the setting was
created, rather than always defaulting to "string". This allows the
behaviour of user-defined settings to match the behaviour of
predefined settings (which have a sensible default type).
For example:
set server:ipv4 192.168.0.1
echo ${server}
will now print "192.168.0.1", rather than trying to print out the raw
IPv4 address bytes as a string.
The downside of this change is that existing tricks for printing
special characters within scripts may require (backwards-compatible)
modification. For example, the "clear screen" sequence:
set esc:hex 1b
set cls ${esc}[2J
echo ${cls}
will now have to become
set esc:hex 1b
set cls ${esc:string}[2J # Must now explicitly specify ":string"
echo ${cls}
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipoib] Expose Ethernet-compatible eIPoIB link-layer addresses and headers
Almost all clients of the raw-packet interfaces (UNDI and SNP) can
handle only Ethernet link layers. Expose an Ethernet-compatible link
layer to local clients, while remaining compatible with IPoIB on the
wire. This requires manipulation of ARP (but not DHCP) packets within
the IPoIB driver.
This is ugly, but it's the only viable way to allow IPoIB devices to
be driven via the raw-packet interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[malloc] Allow allocation of memory with a specified alignment offset
Allow for allocation of memory blocks having a specified offset from a
specified physical alignment, such as being 12 bytes before a 2kB
boundary.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown