From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Force a 2s delay on startup to allow bypassing /dev/env0.
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 19:16:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120506171638.GT4141@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31umynwu9.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:26:22PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Just requesting comments. I'm using this on my hw.
>
> The idea is that /env/bin/init may be uninterruptible and the user
> may be unable to recover control over the barebox. Perhaps there is
> a better way?
Being able to interrupt before environment processing is a good thing to
have, the delay though is not acceptable because it would increase the
boot time on some systems by 400%. It should work without the delay
aswell.
Sascha
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
>
> diff --git a/common/startup.c b/common/startup.c
> index abd1b77..fde99d5 100644
> --- a/common/startup.c
> +++ b/common/startup.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
> * @brief Main entry into the C part of barebox
> */
> #include <common.h>
> +#include <clock.h>
> #include <init.h>
> #include <command.h>
> #include <malloc.h>
> @@ -117,6 +118,8 @@ void start_barebox (void)
> int result;
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMMAND_SUPPORT
> struct stat s;
> + uint64_t start;
> + int stop = 0;
> #endif
>
> for (initcall = __barebox_initcalls_start;
> @@ -130,6 +133,17 @@ void start_barebox (void)
>
> display_meminfo();
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMMAND_SUPPORT
> + start = get_time_ns();
> + printf("\nPress Control-C to stop.");
> + while (!is_timeout(start, 2 * SECOND))
> + if (ctrlc()) {
> + stop = 1;
> + break;
> + }
> + putchar('\n');
> +#endif
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_ENV_HANDLING
> if (envfs_load(default_environment_path, "/env")) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT
> @@ -141,14 +155,16 @@ void start_barebox (void)
> }
> #endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMMAND_SUPPORT
> - printf("running /env/bin/init...\n");
> -
> - if (!stat("/env/bin/init", &s)) {
> + if (stop)
> + printf("skipping /env/bin/init\n");
> + else if (!stat("/env/bin/init", &s)) {
> + printf("running /env/bin/init...\n");
> run_command("source /env/bin/init", 0);
> - } else {
> - printf("not found\n");
> - }
> + } else
> + printf("/env/bin/init not found\n");
> +
> #endif
> +
> /* main_loop() can return to retry autoboot, if so just run it again. */
> for (;;)
> run_shell();
>
> --
> Krzysztof Halasa
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-06 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-05 21:26 Krzysztof Halasa
2012-05-06 17:16 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-05-06 17:50 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-05-06 18:08 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-05-07 0:14 ` Marc Reilly
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