Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

Il 28/11/2013 15:17, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 28/11/2013 15:05, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko ha scritto:
> > On 28.11.2013 14:07, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> > > Il 27/11/2013 18:35, Andrey Borzenkov ha scritto:
> > > > Ð Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:24:53 +0100
> > > > Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx> ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> > > >
> > > > > Il 27/11/2013 17:03, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko ha 
> > > > > scritto:
> > > > > > On 27.11.2013 16:59, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> > > > > > > Il 27/11/2013 12:50, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko ha 
> > > > > > > scritto:
> > > > > > > > That pretty much explains what happened: you don't have any
> > > > > > > > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and when looking for /boot/grub/grub.cfg GRUB
> > > > > > > > found
> > > > > > > > its own memdisk and fell into recursion. I'm not sure what should
> > > > > > > > be the
> > > > > > > > proper way to solve this recursion.
> > > > Yes, it was a bit naive on my side. Recursion in principle can be
> > > > stopped by using global variable, but search is limited to the first
> > > > match only anyway, so I guess it is not worth it.
> > > >
> > > > > > > Anyone know how to exclude memdisk from the search please?
> > > > Please look in grub2 sources at docs/osdetect.cfg. It implements
> > > > advanced run-time detection of possible bootable files from
> > > > various operating systems. It boils down to loop across all devices,
> > > > and of course you can either limit device names (like looking for hd*
> > > > only) or explicitly exclude known ones (like memdisk).
> > > >
> > > > > Is it possible to specify a different default grub.cfg path 
> > > > > (different
> > > > > from all other distributions) changing this command:
> > > > > ./grub-mkstandalone --grub-mkimage=./grub-mkimage -o pvgrub2.xen -O
> > > > > x86_64-xen -d grub-core/ boot/grub/grub.cfg
> > > > > Is it hardcoded as /boot/grub/grub.cfg for grub memdisk or can be 
> > > > > set?
> > > > Not really. Currently the situation is
> > > >
> > > > - grub-mkstandalone hardcodes $prefix as (memdisk)/boot/grub
> > > > - after launch grub unconditionally starts "normal" module if at all
> > > >     possible
> > > > - normal module always tries to load and execute $prefix/grub.cfg 
> > > > if no
> > > >     explicit configuration file name is given as argument
> > > >
> > > > But I think that using osdetect.cfg or something based on this idea
> > > > won't require changing defaults at all.
> > > Thanks for your reply.
> > >
> > > I did this script that is working about finding and include the 
> > > grub.cfg
> > > of pv domUs with many cases:
> > >
> > > cat > boot/grub/grub.cfg <<EOF
> > > insmod lvm
> > > insmod ext2
> > > insmod part_msdos
> > > insmod part_gpt
> > > insmod btrfs
> > >
> > > insmod regexp
> > > for dev in (*); do
> > >      # $device: parenthesis removed from $dev
> > >      regexp -s device '\((.*)\)' $dev
> > >      set root=$device
> > >      for file in /boot/vmlinuz-* /boot/linux-*; do
> > >          if test -f $file; then
> > >              set saved_root=$root
> > >          fi
> > >      done
> > > done
> > > set root=$saved_root
> > >
> > > if test -f /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ; then
> > >      configfile /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> > > elif test -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg ; then
> > >      configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> > > fi
> > > EOF
> > >
> > > @xen developer: Are there other modules to insert for other partitions
> > > or file systems, other grub cfg path for other distributions or other
> > > kernel type to search that support xen pv domUs?
> > > I think is good do and post complete pvgrub2 cfg that support all pv 
> > > domUs.
> > > @xen and grub developer: I'm still unable to boot any entry of Sid pv
> > > domU using official kernel:
> > > xl -vvv create -c /etc/xen/sid.cfg
> > > ...
> > > Caricamento Linux 3.11-1-amd64...
> > > Caricamento ramdisk iniziale...
> > > xc: debug: hypercall buffer: total allocations:247 total releases:247
> > > xc: debug: hypercall buffer: current allocations:0 maximum 
> > > allocations:4
> > > xc: debug: hypercall buffer: cache current size:4
> > > xc: debug: hypercall buffer: cache hits:236 misses:4 toobig:7
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > Ah I forgot: you need to "insmod xzio" since debian ones are compressed.
> > > If you need more tests/informations tell me and I'll post them.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any reply.
> Thanks for reply, in the meantime I rebuilt updated grub2 from git 
> (commit    b67422d33de8eee83700db534a45b2ac5e5ed67a)  and there is a 
> regression from build of some days ago (I don't remember the exact 
> commit, probably was of 24 or 25 november).
> Fails on script I posted on previous mail showing some errors:
> > kern/dl.c:619: module name: test
> > kern/dl.c:620: init function: 0x3f5abdd4
> > error: two arguments expected.
> > commands/wildcard.c:164: Regexp is ^vmlinuz-.*$
> > commands/wildcard.c:164: Regexp is ^linux-.*$
> > error: two arguments expected.
> > commands/wildcard.c:164: Regexp is ^vmlinuz-.*$
> > commands/wildcard.c:164: Regexp is ^linux-.*$
> > error: two arguments expected.
> > commands/wildcard.c:164: Regexp is ^vmlinuz-.*$
> > commands/wildcard.c:164: Regexp is ^linux-.*$
> Full log with debug on attachment.
I updated git to commit 69ca97c820a623f85baf2db1627e19bef9c24e44 and the 
regression persist.
About Sid boot adding "insmod xzio" not solve the problem.
Can you give me details of your working cases?

Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.

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