On 5/11/23 02:00, Andre Przywara wrote:
On Wed, 10 May 2023 23:19:33 +0200
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
On 5/10/23 19:26, Andre Przywara wrote:
On Wed, 10 May 2023 17:58:06 +0200
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
On 5/10/23 16:13, Andre Przywara wrote:
At the moment any naive attempt to boot an EFI payload that has just
been loaded via "hostfs" (sandbox or semihosting) is met by a rather
confusing error message:
===========
VExpress64# load hostfs - $kernel_addr_r Image
52752896 bytes read in 8 ms (6.1 GiB/s)
VExpress64# bootefi $kernel_addr_r
No UEFI binary known at 0x80080000
===========
Actually explicitly providing the filesize:
VExpress64# bootefi $kernel_addr_r:$filesize
works around that problem, but the issue lies deeper: the call to
efi_set_bootdev() (as done by the generic load code) bails out at some
point, leaving the image_addr and image_size variables unset, which
triggers this message. The problem seems to be that "-" is not
understood by the code creating an UEFI device path. We could try to fix
just that, but actually semihosting seems to have some explicit support
in UEFI (at least it does in EDK II): there is a separate GUID for it,
and hostfs is significantly different in some aspects to justify special
handling.
Check for the device name being "hostfs" and create a specific UEFI device
path for semihosting in this case. This uses the GUID used by EDK II for
almost 15 years.
This fixes the above load/bootefi sequence without requiring an explicit
file size argument.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
Could you, please, indicate how to invoke QEMU with semihosting enabled.
This information needs to be added to doc/usage/semihosting.rst.
It's already there:
https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/semihosting.html#qemu
This does not tell me which arguments I should pass to qemu-system-aarch64.
I would say that's out of scope for this document, and is explained in
doc/boards/emulation/qemu-arm.rst. A minimum working example is:
$ qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -bios u-boot.bin
It's mostly just "-semihosting" on the QEMU side, but it's not
enabled by default in the QEMU defconfig, because it *was* needed
to be provided in sync with the QEMU option. It's a debug feature,
so there is no good discovery mechanism, really. I think Sean made
this work, with this autodetect via trap feature, so we might want
to enable this option now, at least for the filesystem part.
If it is missing in Ubuntu's QEMU, please, indicate how I can build a
QEMU that allows testing. This information needs to go into
semihosting.rst.
It's all there and it works on my 20.04 QEMU build out of the box. What
I meant is that -semihosting is a QEMU command line *option*, and a very
optional one, so to speak, as it's more an ARM low level debugger
technology than anything else, and it was just adopted by QEMU. And
until recently you had to make sure that you give that option to QEMU
if you enable semihosting support in U-Boot, otherwise it would crash.
For more details see Sean's FOSDEM talk:
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/semihosting_uboot/
Regardless I was doing those experiments with the FVP fastmodel, which is
It seems FVP's are not open source
(https://developer.arm.com/Tools%20and%20Software/Fixed%20Virtual%20Platforms).
We need some open source solution for testing the suggested changes.
Sure, I just mentioned this because the models are just the reference
implementation and natural habitat for semihosting: because it's
enabled by default there, and it's an ancient ARM technology.
If you want to test it, just use your favourite QEMU command line (or
the one I mention above) and add "-semihosting". Then load your EFI app:
=> load hostfs - $kernel_addr_r app.efi
=> bootefi $kernel_addr_r
Cheers,
Andre
I have compiled qemu_arm64_defconfig with CONFIG_SERIAL_PROBE_ALL=y and
invoked qemu-system-aarch64 (1:7.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2) on Ubuntu 23.10 with
-semihosting.
qemu-system-aarch64 -semihosting \
-machine virt,gic-version=max -accel tcg,thread=multi \
-m 1G -smp cores=2 \
-bios denx/u-boot.bin -cpu cortex-a72 -nographic -gdb tcp::1234 \
-netdev user,id=eth0,tftp=tftp -device e1000,netdev=eth0,romfile= \
-drive if=none,file=arm64.img,format=raw,id=mydisk \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,index=1,file=envstore.img \
-device virtio-rng-pci \
-device ich9-ahci,id=ahci -device ide-hd,drive=mydisk,bus=ahci.0
With and without your patch I get:
=> load hostfs - $kernel_addr_r foo
** No device specified **
Couldn't find partition hostfs -
Can't set block device
Please, describe in sufficient detail how to use semihosting.
Best regards
Heinrich
Best regards
Heinrich
the most original semihosting provider, I think, and always enables
semihosting.
Can there be multiple semihosting block devices?
There is no semihosting *block device*, it's a pure filesystem interface.
And there is conceptually only one instance of that: it's basically a
hook in the debugger (or emulation software) to provide some kind of
syscall interface, triggered by a certain instruction ("brk" on AArch64).
This allows some very limited access to the host filesystem - read files,
write files, but no listing, for instance.
It is super convenient to launch the model and load the kernel (or
whatever) directly from your build machine's filesystem - especially if
you do bisects or trial-and-error experiments.
---
lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c
index e2e98a39be1..b6d2074dd70 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c
@@ -1079,6 +1079,35 @@ struct efi_device_path *efi_dp_from_uart(void)
return buf;
}
+#define SEMIHOSTING_GUID \
+ EFI_GUID(0xc5b9c74a, 0x6d72, 0x4719, \
+ 0x99, 0xab, 0xc5, 0x9f, 0x19, 0x90, 0x91, 0xeb)
Can semihosting be moved to the driver model?
Mmh, I am not sure this is a thing, since there is no block device, it's a
filesystem. Which is part of the problem, I believe, and probably also a
good reason to treat it separately.
Then we could create a generic catch all for device path nodes for all
uclasses.
Need to digest that idea ....
Cheers,
Andre
Best regards
Heinrich
+
+struct efi_device_path *efi_dp_from_semihosting(void)
+{
+ const struct efi_device_path_vendor smh_vendor = {
+ .dp = {
+ .type = DEVICE_PATH_TYPE_HARDWARE_DEVICE,
+ .sub_type = DEVICE_PATH_SUB_TYPE_VENDOR,
+ .length = sizeof(smh_vendor),
+ },
+ .guid = SEMIHOSTING_GUID,
+ };
+ void *buf, *pos;
+ size_t dpsize = sizeof(smh_vendor) + sizeof(END);
+
+ buf = efi_alloc(dpsize);
+ if (!buf)
+ return NULL;
+ pos = buf;
+ memcpy(pos, &smh_vendor, sizeof(smh_vendor));
+ pos += sizeof(smh_vendor);
+
+ memcpy(pos, &END, sizeof(END));
+
+ return buf;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NETDEVICES
struct efi_device_path *efi_dp_from_eth(void)
{
@@ -1210,6 +1239,11 @@ efi_status_t efi_dp_from_name(const char *dev, const
char *devnr,
*device = efi_dp_from_mem(EFI_RESERVED_MEMORY_TYPE,
(uintptr_t)image_addr,
image_size);
+ } else if (!strcmp(dev, "hostfs")) {
+ efi_get_image_parameters(&image_addr, &image_size);
+
+ if (device)
+ *device = efi_dp_from_semihosting();
} else {
part = blk_get_device_part_str(dev, devnr, &desc, &fs_partition,
1);
