svn commit: r326857 - in head: . share/mk stand/i386/zfsboot

Warner Losh imp at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 14 17:00:25 UTC 2017


Author: imp
Date: Thu Dec 14 17:00:24 2017
New Revision: 326857
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/326857

Log:
  Turn loader GELI support in the boot loaders off by default as a
  temporary workaround. This fixes zfs booting generally, but breaks all
  GELI booting by default. Add note to UPDATING to this effect. When the
  GELI issues are resolved, this will be reverted.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING
  head/share/mk/src.opts.mk
  head/stand/i386/zfsboot/zfsldr.S

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Thu Dec 14 16:51:43 2017	(r326856)
+++ head/UPDATING	Thu Dec 14 17:00:24 2017	(r326857)
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
 
 ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
 
+20171214:
+	r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However,
+	it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off
+	by default as the lessor evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or
+	GELI, it might not be a good time to update.
+
 20171125:
 	PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before
 	installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has

Modified: head/share/mk/src.opts.mk
==============================================================================
--- head/share/mk/src.opts.mk	Thu Dec 14 16:51:43 2017	(r326856)
+++ head/share/mk/src.opts.mk	Thu Dec 14 17:00:24 2017	(r326857)
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ __DEFAULT_YES_OPTIONS = \
     LIB32 \
     LIBPTHREAD \
     LIBTHR \
-    LOADER_GELI \
     LOCALES \
     LOCATE \
     LPR \
@@ -183,6 +182,7 @@ __DEFAULT_NO_OPTIONS = \
     LIBSOFT \
     LOADER_FIREWIRE \
     LOADER_FORCE_LE \
+    LOADER_GELI \
     NAND \
     OFED \
     OPENLDAP \

Modified: head/stand/i386/zfsboot/zfsldr.S
==============================================================================
--- head/stand/i386/zfsboot/zfsldr.S	Thu Dec 14 16:51:43 2017	(r326856)
+++ head/stand/i386/zfsboot/zfsldr.S	Thu Dec 14 17:00:24 2017	(r326857)
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 		.set SIZ_PAG,0x1000		# Page size
 		.set SIZ_SEC,0x200		# Sector size
 		.set COPY_BLKS,0x8		# Number of blocks
-						# to copy for boot2
+						# to copy for boot2 (<= 15)
 		.set COPY_BLK_SZ,0x8000		# Copy in 32k blocks; must be
 						# a multiple of 16 bytes
 		.set NSECT,(COPY_BLK_SZ / SIZ_SEC * COPY_BLKS)


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