[PATCH] kexec: determine size of block device

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:32:58AM +0200, Andreas Fenkart wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> 2015-10-16 3:30 GMT+02:00 Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>:
> > On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 03:27:18PM +0200, Andreas Fenkart wrote:
> >> starting 'kexec -l /dev/mmcblk0p1' fails since the size of
> >> a block device can not be determined with stat
> >
> > Could you provide some motivation for kexec reading a kernel image
> > from a block device as per the example above?
> 
> We plan to use it for our embedded system
> 
> We have an interim initramfs, that selects the kernel we want to boot
> our real system. Something like a n+1 stage boot loader,
> where n is the last stage of u-boot. The motivation is to do a safe
> kernel upgrade on the production rootfs through package management.
> The new kernel is dropped into a folder where the interim system will
> selects the kernel with the highest priority. No reconfiguration of
> u-boot/rescue system needed. In case no kernel has yet been installed,
> we fall back to the factory default, which is installed in a raw flash
> partition on eMMC without filesystem.
> 
> https://git.digitalstrom.org/bsp/dss-rescue-tools/blob/master/src/kernel-fallback-dss11-1gb-t1.config

Nice :)

> >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Fenkart <andreas.fenkart at dev.digitalstrom.org>
> >> ---
> >>  kexec/kexec.c | 10 ++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
> >> index ff024f3..8b8846e 100644
> >> --- a/kexec/kexec.c
> >> +++ b/kexec/kexec.c
> >> @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@
> >>  #include <stdlib.h>
> >>  #include <errno.h>
> >>  #include <limits.h>
> >> +#include <sys/ioctl.h>
> >>  #include <sys/mman.h>
> >> +#include <sys/mount.h>
> >>  #include <sys/types.h>
> >>  #include <sys/stat.h>
> >>  #include <sys/reboot.h>
> >> @@ -554,6 +556,14 @@ char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size)
> >>                       die("Can not seek to the begin of file %s: %s\n",
> >>                                       filename, strerror(errno));
> >>               buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread);
> >> +    } else if (S_ISBLK(stats.st_mode)) {
> >> +             /* taken from blockdev */
> >
> > Is "blockdev" Linux kernel code?
> 
> It is a util-linux tool, which is GPL of course. I added the comment
> as a reference, since I couldn't find a man page for BLKGETSIZE64.
> Since it's a straight forward ioctl call, there is probably no
> copyright violation at all, and I could well remove it.

Understood. Could you repost with the blockdev comment removed?

> >> +             unsigned long long llu = -1;
> >> +             err = ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, &llu);
> >> +             if (err < 0)
> >> +                     die("Can't retrieve size of block device %s: %s\n",
> >> +                             filename, strerror(errno));
> >> +             size = llu;
> >>       } else {
> >>               size = nread = stats.st_size;
> >>               buf = mmap(NULL, size,
> >> --
> >> 2.5.1
> >>
> >>
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