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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:36:19 -0600
From:      Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS boot problems with memory > 1MB
Message-ID:  <179b97fb1002231236l3924a264u87380c83c1484e50@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201002231401.22852.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:01 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 February 2010 12:36:31 pm Brandon Gooch wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:24 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 10:28:49 am Brandon Gooch wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote=
:
>> >> > on 23/02/2010 13:18 Renato Botelho said the following:
>> >> >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Chris Hedley
>> >> >> <freebsd-current@chrishedley.com> wrote:
>> >> > [snip]
>> >> >>> Do you have USB legacy support enabled in your BIOS? =A0I'm not s=
ure if
>> >> >>> there's an option for the loader to use USB devices natively, but=
 the BIOS's
>> >> >>> legacy option where it provides AT/PS2 emulation is probably the =
easiest way
>> >> >>> to get the keyboard working.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yes, I do, but it seems to be a regression on FreeBSD itself, I ha=
d this problem
>> >> >> in the past and I checked the same things i need to check in the p=
ast again and
>> >> >> everything is fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > A more precise way to state that would be "a regression in FreeBSD =
boot/loader".
>> >> > I think that you are referring to the issue that was fixed by r1890=
17.
>> >> > It might be worthwhile investigating what was done in that revision=
 and what
>> >> > happened in sys/boot code since then.
>> >> >
>> >> > One possibility is that your BIOS uses memory above 1MB for USB emu=
lation, but
>> >> > doesn't mark that memory as used in system memory map. =A0In that c=
ase that memory
>> >> > could be overwritten by the loader. =A0If that's true then the blam=
e is on the BIOS.
>> >> > =A0Alternatively, our code might be parsing the system memory map i=
ncorrectly.
>> >> > But I am just making wild guesses here.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I don't know if it is at all related, but this commit has caused
>> >> problems for me booting at least one of my machines:
>> >>
>> >> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot=
.c?r1=3D199714&r2=3D200309
>> >>
>> >> Commit message:
>> >>
>> >> Revision 200309 - (view) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
>> >> Modified Wed Dec 9 20:36:56 2009 UTC (2 months, 2 weeks ago) by jhb
>> >> File length: 24893 byte(s)
>> >> Diff to previous 199714
>> >> - Port bios_getmem() from libi386 to {gpt,}zfsboot() and use it to
>> >> =A0 safely allocate a heap region above 1MB. =A0This enables {gpt,}zf=
sboot()
>> >> =A0 to allocate much larger buffers than before.
>> >> - Use a larger buffer (1MB instead of 128K) for temporary ZFS buffers=
. =A0This
>> >> =A0 allows more reliable reading of compressed files in a raidz/raidz=
2 pool.
>> >>
>> >> Submitted by: Matt Reimer =A0mattjreimer of gmail
>> >> MFC after: =A0 =A01 week
>> >
>> > Starting a new thread, which problems are you seeing with this change?=
 =A0ZFS is
>> > a good bit more memory hungry than UFS, so it really needs to use high=
 memory
>> > for its heap. =A0Also, I wonder if you still have problems if you use =
the older
>> > zfsboot with the newer zfsloader? =A0Finally, you need to use disklabe=
l -B or
>> > some such to update the zfsboot bits for this change to take effect.
>> >
>> > --
>> > John Baldwin
>> >
>>
>> I filed a PR so it wouldn't fall through the cracks:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D144234
>>
>> I guess I tried a combination of various revisions of bootstrap code
>> and loaders when I first encountered the issue. It was when I wrote a
>> recent gptzfsboot to the geom that I saw the symptoms:
>>
>> error 1 lba 48
>> error 1 lba 1
>> No ZFS pools located, can't boot
>>
>> I just wound up using sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.c revision 199714
>> to build a working gptzfsboot on another system and wrote that to the
>> disk to get the machine operational.
>
> Try this:
>
> Index: zfsboot.c
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> --- zfsboot.c =A0 (revision 204207)
> +++ zfsboot.c =A0 (working copy)
> @@ -467,6 +467,7 @@
> =A0static inline void
> =A0putc(int c)
> =A0{
> + =A0 =A0v86.ctl =3D 0;
> =A0 =A0 v86.addr =3D 0x10;
> =A0 =A0 v86.eax =3D 0xe00 | (c & 0xff);
> =A0 =A0 v86.ebx =3D 0x7;
> @@ -617,6 +618,8 @@
> =A0 =A0 off_t off;
> =A0 =A0 struct dsk *dsk;
>
> + =A0 =A0dmadat =3D (void *)(roundup2(__base + (int32_t)&_end, 0x10000) -=
 __base);
> +
> =A0 =A0 bios_getmem();
>
> =A0 =A0 if (high_heap_size > 0) {
> @@ -627,9 +630,6 @@
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0heap_end =3D (char *) PTOV(bios_basemem);
> =A0 =A0 }
>
> - =A0 =A0dmadat =3D (void *)(roundup2(__base + (int32_t)&_end, 0x10000) -=
 __base);
> - =A0 =A0v86.ctl =3D V86_FLAGS;
> -
> =A0 =A0 dsk =3D malloc(sizeof(struct dsk));
> =A0 =A0 dsk->drive =3D *(uint8_t *)PTOV(ARGS);
> =A0 =A0 dsk->type =3D dsk->drive & DRV_HARD ? TYPE_AD : TYPE_FD;
> @@ -1157,6 +1157,7 @@
> =A0 =A0 =A0* when no such key is pressed in reality. As far as I can tell=
,
> =A0 =A0 =A0* this only happens shortly after a reboot.
> =A0 =A0 =A0*/
> + =A0 =A0v86.ctl =3D V86_FLAGS;
> =A0 =A0 v86.addr =3D 0x16;
> =A0 =A0 v86.eax =3D fn << 8;
> =A0 =A0 v86int();
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>

It still breaks:

error 1 lba 48
error 1 lba 1
No ZFS pools located, can't boot

-Brandon



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