On 02.09.24 03:18, Simon Glass wrote:
While sandbox supports virtio it cannot support actually using the block devices to read files, since there is nothing on the other end of the 'virtqueue'.
A recent change makes EFI probe all block devices, whether used or not. This is apparently required by EFI, although it violates U-Boot's lazy-init principle.
We always did this.
What problem do you want to fix? I have not seen any issues in our CI.
We cannot just drop the virtio devices as they are used in sandbox tests.
So for now just add a special case to work around this.
The eventual fix is likely adding an implementation of virtio_sandbox_notify() to actually do the block read. That is tracked in [1].
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Fixes: d5391bf02b9 ("efi_loader: ensure all block devices are probed") Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org [1] https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/issues/37
(no changes since v3)
Changes in v3:
Add a Fixes tag
Mention the issue created for this problem
lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c index 93a9a5ac025..2e1d37848fc 100644 --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c @@ -838,8 +838,20 @@ efi_status_t efi_disk_get_device_name(const efi_handle_t handle, char *buf, int efi_status_t efi_disks_register(void) { struct udevice *dev;
- struct uclass *uc;
- uclass_foreach_dev_probe(UCLASS_BLK, dev) {
uclass_id_foreach_dev(UCLASS_BLK, dev, uc) {
/** The virtio block-device hangs on sandbox when accessed since* there is nothing listening to the mailbox*/if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SANDBOX)) {struct blk_desc *desc = dev_get_uclass_plat(dev);if (desc->uclass_id == UCLASS_VIRTIO)continue;}device_probe(dev);}
return EFI_SUCCESS;
Please, do not spray sandbox tweaks all over the place.
Can't you just return an error from the sandbox-virtio driver when an attempt to read a queue is made?
We are using virtio on QEMU. Why do we need sandbox virtio devices? Just run the relevant tests on the real thing.
Best regards
Heinrich