[build] Apply the "-fno-PIE -nopie" workaround only to i386 builds
Hardened versions of gcc default to building position-independent
code, which breaks our i386 build. Our build process therefore
detects such platforms and automatically adds "-fno-PIE -nopie" to the
gcc command line.
On x86_64, we choose to build position-independent code (in order to
reduce the final binary size and, in particular, the number of
relocations required for UEFI binaries). The workaround therefore
breaks the build process for x86_64 binaries on such platforms.
Fix by moving the workaround to the i386-specific portion of the
Makefile.
Reported-by: Jan Kundrát <jkt@kde.org>
Debugged-by: Jan Kundrát <jkt@kde.org>
Debugged-by: Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Use PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME for end-user visible strings
Use PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME instead of a hardcoded "iPXE" for strings which
are typically shown in the user interface.
Note that this only allows for customisation of the user interface.
Where the "iPXE" string serves a technical purpose (such as in the
HTTP User-Agent), the string cannot be customised.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pxe] Maintain a queue for received PXE UDP packets
Some devices return multiple packets in a single poll. Handle such
devices gracefully by enqueueing received PXE UDP packets (along with
a pseudo-header to hold the IPv4 addresses and port numbers) and
dequeueing them on subsequent calls to PXENV_UDP_READ.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[tftp] Explicitly abort connection whenever parent interface is closed
Fetching the TFTP file size is currently implemented via a custom
"tftpsize://" protocol hack. Generalise this approach to instead
close the TFTP connection whenever the parent data-transfer interface
is closed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow drivers to specify a supported PCI class code. To save space in
the final binary, make this an attribute of the driver rather than an
attribute of a PCI device ID list entry.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Use -malign-double to build 32-bit UEFI binaries
The EDK2 codebase uses -malign-double for 32-bit builds, which causes
64-bit integers to be naturally aligned. This affects the layout of
some structures (including EFI_BLOCK_IO_MEDIA).
This mirrors wimboot commit 7b8f39d ("[build] Fix building of 32-bit
UEFI version").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[mromprefix] Allow for .mrom images larger than 128kB
The .mrom payload has a code type of 0xff and so the initialisation
length field (single byte at offset 0x02) does not need to be
present. Use only the PCI header's image length field, which allows
the .mrom payload to be up to 32MB in size.
Inspired-by: Swift Geek <swiftgeek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[mromprefix] Use PCI length field to obtain length of individual images
mromprefix.S currently uses the initialisation length field (single
byte at offset 0x02) to determine the length of a ROM image within a
multi-image ROM BAR. For PCI ROM images with a code type other than
0, the initialisation length field may not be present.
Fix by using the PCI header's image length field instead.
Inspired-by: Swift Geek <swiftgeek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The build process has for a long time assumed that every ROM is a PCI
ROM, and will always include the PCI header and PCI-related
functionality (such as checking the PCI BIOS version, including the
PCI bus:dev.fn address within the ROM product name string, etc.).
While real ISA cards are no longer in use, some virtualisation
environments (notably VirtualBox) have support only for ISA ROMs.
This can cause problems: in particular, VirtualBox will call our
initialisation entry point with random garbage in %ax, which we then
treat as the PCI bus:dev.fn address of the autoboot device: this
generally prevents the default boot sequence from using any network
devices.
Create .isarom and .pcirom prefixes which can be used to explicitly
specify the type of ROM to be created. (Note that the .mrom prefix
always implies a PCI ROM, since the .mrom mechanism relies on
reconfiguring PCI BARs.)
Make .rom a magic prefix which will automatically select the
appropriate PCI or ISA ROM prefix for ROMs defined via a PCI_ROM() or
ISA_ROM() macro. To maintain backwards compatibility, we default to
building a PCI ROM for anything which is not directly derived from a
PCI_ROM() or ISA_ROM() macro (e.g. bin/intel.rom).
Add a selection of targets to "make everything" to ensure that the
(relatively obscure) ISA ROM build process is included within the
per-commit QA checks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Since some PnP BIOSes fail to set %es:di to point to the PnP signature
on entry, we identify a PnP BIOS by scanning through the top 64kB of
base memory looking for the PnP structure. We therefore don't
actually use the values of %es:di provided to the initialisation entry
point, and so there is no need to preserve them.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[librm] Allow for the PIC interrupt vector offset to be changed
Some external code (observed with FreeBSD's bootloader) will continue
to make INT 13 calls after reconfiguring the 8259 PIC to change the
vector offsets for IRQs. If an IRQ (e.g. the timer IRQ) subsequently
occurs while iPXE is in protected mode, this will cause a general
protection fault since the corresponding IDT entry is empty.
A general protection fault is INT 0x0d, which happens to overlap with
the original IRQ5. We therefore do have an ISR set up to handle a
general protection fault, but this ISR simply reflects the interrupt
down to the real-mode INT 0x0d and then attempts to return. Since our
ISR is expecting a hardware interrupt rather than a general protection
fault, it doesn't remove the error code from the stack before issuing
the iret instruction; it therefore attempts to return to a garbage
address. Since the segment part of this address is likely to be
invalid, a second general protection fault occurs. This cycle
continues until we run out of stack space and triple fault.
Fix by reflecting all INTs down to real mode. This actually reduces
the code size by four bytes (but increases the bss size by almost
2kB).
Reported-by: Brian Rak <dn@devicenull.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[lkrnprefix] Make real-mode setup code relocatable
The bzImage boot protocol allows the real-mode code to be loaded at
any segment within base memory. (The fact that both iPXE and recent
versions of Syslinux will load the real-mode code at 1000:0000 is a
coincidence; it is not guaranteed by the specification.)
Fix by making the code relocatable.
Reported-by: Andrew Stuart <andrew@shopcusa.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Rework geniso and genliso to provide a single merged utility for
generating ISO images.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The .lkrn prefix currently provides a zImage kernel with unused setup
sectors and the whole iPXE binary placed within the "protected mode
kernel" portion of the zImage.
The work carried out years ago to create the .mrom format provides a
mechanism allowing the iPXE binary to be split into a small real-mode
header and a larger payload. This neatly matches the way that a
bzImage is loaded: the "setup sectors" can contain the header and the
"protected mode kernel" can contain the payload.
This removes the size restrictions on an iPXE .lkrn image (and hence
on derived image formats such as .iso).
Also remove obsolete copyright information, since none of the original
code or functionality now remains.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[profile] Allow interrupts to be excluded from profiling results
Interrupt processing adds noise to profiling results. Allow
interrupts (from within protected mode) to be profiled separately,
with time spent within the interrupt handler being excluded from any
other profiling currently in progress.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[undi] Place an upper limit on the number of PXENV_UNDI_ISR calls per poll
PXENV_UNDI_ISR calls may implicitly refill the underlying receive
ring, and so could continue to retrieve packets indefinitely. Place
an upper limit on the number of calls to PXENV_UNDI_ISR per call to
undinet_poll().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When making a call from real mode to protected mode, we save and
restore the global and interrupt descriptor table registers. The
restore currently takes place after returning to real mode, which
generates two EXCEPTION_NMIs and corresponding VM exits when running
under KVM on an Intel CPU.
Avoid the VM exits by restoring the descriptor table registers inside
prot_to_real, while still running in protected mode.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[librm] Speed up real-to-protected mode transition under KVM
Ensure that all segment registers have zero in the low two bits before
transitioning to protected mode. This allows the CPU state to
immediately be deemed to be "valid", and eliminates the need for any
further emulated instructions.
Load the protected-mode interrupt descriptor table after switching to
protected mode, since this avoids triggering an EXCEPTION_NMI and
corresponding VM exit.
This reduces the time taken by real_to_prot under KVM by around 50%.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[librm] Speed up protected-to-real mode transition under KVM
On an Intel CPU supporting VMX, KVM will emulate instructions while
the CPU state remains "invalid". In real mode, the CPU state is
defined to be "invalid" if any segment register has a base which is
not equal to (sreg<<4) or a limit which is not equal to 64kB.
We don't actually use the base stored in the REAL_DS descriptor for
any significant purpose. Change the base stored in this descriptor to
be equal to (REAL_DS<<4). A segment register loaded with REAL_DS is
then automatically valid in both real and protected modes. This
allows KVM to stop emulating instructions much sooner.
The only use of REAL_DS for memory accesses currently occurs in the
indirect ljmp within prot_to_real. Change this to a direct ljmp,
storing rm_cs in .text16 as part of the ljmp instruction. This
removes the only memory access via REAL_DS (thereby allowing for the
above descriptor base address hack), and also simplifies the ljmp
instruction (which will still have to be emulated).
Load the real-mode interrupt descriptor table register before
switching to real mode, since this avoids triggering an EXCEPTION_NMI
and corresponding VM exit.
This reduces the time taken by prot_to_real under KVM by around 65%.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The mode-transition code involves paths which switch back and forth
between the .text and .text16 sections. At present, only the start of
each function is labelled, which makes it difficult to decode
addresses within the parts of the function existing in a different
section.
Add explicit labels at the start of each section change, so that
addresses can be meaningfully decoded to the nearest label.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pcbios] Do not switch to real mode to sleep the CPU
Now that we can handle interrupts while in protected mode, there is no
need to switch to real mode just to halt the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[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>
[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>
[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>
[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>
Michael Brown