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authorLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2021-12-29 05:58:03 +0000
committerLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2021-12-29 05:58:03 +0000
commitc98308c499f678e6280105ba2b335a5724b0a6ba (patch)
tree828149c77b7c1ebde4ff23dd587986f51e8e16d7 /resources/grub/config/grub.cfg
parent0ea263129a92384b6d3e8b114d10e2bf200b9100 (diff)
grub.cfg: don't use */? wildcards. they slow down the boot
hardcode everything. in practise, the new logic will work just the same in almost all cases, for most people, but it works around performance issues in grub. cleanup of grub.cfg will be done in the next commit
Diffstat (limited to 'resources/grub/config/grub.cfg')
-rw-r--r--resources/grub/config/grub.cfg53
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg b/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg
index 93cc9e2c..3820fb55 100644
--- a/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg
+++ b/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg
@@ -109,16 +109,22 @@ menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o
search_grub ahci
search_grub ata
# 2) LVM and RAID which might be used accross multiple devices
- unset lvmvol
- for vol in bootvol rootvol; do
- if [ (lvm\/?atrix-${vol}) != "(lvm/?atrix-${vol})" ]; then # Sketchy check, hardcoded string to be dropped in future
- lvmvol="${lvmvol} (lvm/matrix-${vol})"
- fi
- done
- unset raidvol
- if [ (md/?) != "(md/?)" ] ; then
- raidvol=(md/?)
- fi
+ lvmvol="lvm/matrix-bootvol lvm/matrix-rootvol"
+ # TODO: add more entries to this string in the future, with common
+ # volume group names per common distro configs. look at what all the
+ # popular distros are doing when the user select automatic partitioning
+ # in their distro's installer. this still won't cover all use cases,
+ # but grub's enumeration of anything partition-related is very slow,
+ # so for now we hardcode everything in grub.cfg
+
+ # again, hardcoded. grub's enumeration is always very slow.
+ # until that is optimized, we must hardcode everything in grub.cfg
+ raidvol="md/0 md/1 md/2 md/3 md/4 md/5 md/6 md/7 md/8 md/9"
+
+ # in practise, doing multiple redundant checks is perfectly fast and
+ # ok, even if less technically correct
+ # TODO: optimize grub itself, and use */? here for everything
+
for vol in ${lvmvol} ${raidvol} ; do
try_user_config "${vol}"
done
@@ -129,22 +135,15 @@ menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o
# Encrypted disks and partitions
#TODO: This needs to be adjusted on each device to exclude ODD
#TODO: Usually ATA is for odd if both exist!
-#TODO: Unset variables before use!
-#TODO: Pick better variable name scheme than ${ddev}, or find way to make it local
unset ahcidev
unset atadev
- if [ (ahci?) != "(ahci?)" ]; then
- ahcilist=(ahci*)
- for part in ${ahcilist}; do
- ahcidev="$part $ahcidev"
+ for i in 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0; do
+ for part in 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; do
+ ahcidev="(ahci${i},${part}) ${ahcidev}"
+ atadev="(ata${i},${part}) ${atadev}"
done
- fi
- if [ (ata?) != "(ata?)" ]; then
- atalist=(ata*)
- for part in ${atalist}; do
- atadev="$part $atadev"
- done
- fi
+ done
+
set pager=0
echo -n "Attempting to cryptomount: "
for dev in ${ahcidev} ${atadev} ${lvmvol} ${raidvol}; do
@@ -154,13 +153,7 @@ menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o
set pager=1
echo # Insert newline
-# Rescan lvm volumes, should probably use test at this point
- unset lvmvol
- for vol in bootvol rootvol; do
- if [ (lvm\/?atrix-${vol}) != "(lvm/?atrix-${vol})" ]; then # Sketchy check, hardcoded string to be dropped in future
- lvmvol="${lvmvol} (lvm/matrix-${vol})"
- fi
- done
+# Retry lvm volumes, because after cryptomount, they might now be exposed
# 3) LVM inside LUKS containers
for vol in ${lvmvol}; do