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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:54:28 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Randy Westlund <rwestlun@gmail.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS Root with Raspberry Pi (nfs_diskless: no interface)
Message-ID:  <1443142468.1224.322.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <560438C5.3090404@selasky.org>
References:  <20150922052522.GA62140@gmail.com> <00C49FEB-E8EF-4469-85E2-0F901215CD11@cs.huji.ac.il> <20150923050414.GB43653@gmail.com> <91AAC64E-4C38-47AA-8910-48F7654A7524@cs.huji.ac.il> <20150923174445.GE43653@gmail.com> <CFAAFAE2-F0B2-431B-93C6-61D66464B7FD@cs.huji.ac.il> <1443105426.1224.272.camel@freebsd.org> <20150924163658.GC32257@gmail.com> <560438C5.3090404@selasky.org>

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On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 19:54 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 09/24/15 18:36, Randy Westlund wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 08:37:06AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> >>>[orig problem description: basically nfsroot without BOOTP fails]
> 
> >> Try setting boot.netif.name="ue0" in loader.conf.  I've never tried
> >> that, but in looking at the code, there's some chance it could work.  :)
> >>
> >> What I do is put these options into my RPi kernel config:
> >>
> >> options 	BOOTP
> >> options 	BOOTP_NFSROOT
> >> options 	BOOTP_NFSV3
> >> options 	BOOTP_WIRED_TO=ue0
> >>
> >> But this requires configuring a bootp or dhcp server to provide the
> >> info.  It should be possible to netboot without using BOOTP.
> >>
> >> -- Ian
> >
> > No luck with boot.netif.name.
> >
> > I'm using the kernel that comes in the FreeBSD RPI-B disk image.  Is
> > there a way to see what it was built with?  I tried running strings on
> > the kernel, but I'm not sure what to look for.  Otherwise I guess I'll
> > build one myself.
> >
> > Randy
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The problem is that the code in:
> 
> sys/nfs/bootp_subr.c: SYSINIT(bootp_rootconf, SI_SUB_ROOT_CONF, 
> SI_ORDER_FIRST, bootpc_init, NULL);
> 
> doesn't wait for the USB ethernet device to be enumerated. Only the 
> vfs_mountroot() code which is running from the init-process does so.
> 
> Not sure what the best way to solve this is. Try putting:
> 
> pause("W", hz * 4);
> 
> Into the beginning of the "bootpc_init()" function.
> 
> --HPS

I had time to look into this today.  The bootpc_init() routine *does*
wait for an interface to appear.  The problem in this case is that BOOTP
isn't involved, and the nfs_setup_diskless() routine doesn't have a
similar wait loop for slow interfaces.  The attached patch adds it, and
with it I can nfsmount root on my RPi without using the BOOTP_foo
options I listed above.

Rick, does this patch look okay to you?  If no objections, I'll commit
this asap.

-- Ian


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Index: sys/nfs/nfs_diskless.c
===================================================================
--- sys/nfs/nfs_diskless.c	(revision 288203)
+++ sys/nfs/nfs_diskless.c	(working copy)
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
 #include <nfsclient/nfs.h>
 #include <nfs/nfsdiskless.h>
 
+#define	IFACE_TIMEOUT_SECS	10 /* Timeout for interface to appear. */
+
 static int inaddr_to_sockaddr(char *ev, struct sockaddr_in *sa);
 static int hwaddr_to_sockaddr(char *ev, struct sockaddr_dl *sa);
 static int decode_nfshandle(char *ev, u_char *fh, int maxfh);
@@ -170,6 +172,7 @@ nfs_setup_diskless(void)
 	char *cp;
 	int cnt, fhlen, is_nfsv3;
 	uint32_t len;
+	time_t timeout_at;
 
 	if (nfs_diskless_valid != 0)
 		return;
@@ -214,6 +217,8 @@ nfs_setup_diskless(void)
 		return;
 	}
 	ifa = NULL;
+	timeout_at = time_uptime + IFACE_TIMEOUT_SECS;
+retry:
 	CURVNET_SET(TD_TO_VNET(curthread));
 	IFNET_RLOCK();
 	TAILQ_FOREACH(ifp, &V_ifnet, if_link) {
@@ -234,6 +239,10 @@ nfs_setup_diskless(void)
 	}
 	IFNET_RUNLOCK();
 	CURVNET_RESTORE();
+	if (time_uptime < timeout_at) {
+		pause("nfssdl", hz / 5);
+		goto retry;
+	}
 	printf("nfs_diskless: no interface\n");
 	return;	/* no matching interface */
 match_done:

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