Add iSCSI iBFT Support (v0.4.9)

James, Greg, Andrew,

I believe the patch is ready. I've modified the code per the latest review from James, and also fixed some fixes. I believe that Greg had ACK it, and right now I am just waiting for James to review the patch at his convience?

This patch (v0.4.9) adds /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure.

What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table? It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information so that they can automagically mount the iSCSI share/target. Currently the iSCSI information is hard-coded in the initrd. The /sysfs entries are read-only one-name-and-value fields.

The usual set of data exposed is:

# for a in `find /sys/firmware/ibft/ -type f -print`; do  echo -n "$a: ";  cat $a; done
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/target-name: iqn.2007.com.intel-sbx44:storage-10gb
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/nic-assoc: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/chap-type: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/lun: 00000000
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/port: 3260
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/ip-addr: 192.168.79.116
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/mac: 00:11:25:9d:8b:01
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/vlan: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/gateway: 192.168.79.254
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/origin: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/subnet-mask: 255.255.252.0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/ip-addr: 192.168.77.41
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/flags: 7
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/initiator-name: iqn.2007-07.com:konrad.initiator
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/index: 0

For full details of the IBFT structure please take a look at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/ibm_iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.02.pdf

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft |   23 
 arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c           |    3 
 arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c           |    4 
 drivers/firmware/Kconfig             |   20 
 drivers/firmware/Makefile            |    2 
 drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c        |  981 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c   |   84 ++
 include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h           |   50 +
 8 files changed, 1167 insertions(+)

new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2b7d11
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+What:		/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator
+Date:		November 2007
+Contact:	Konrad Rzeszutek <[email protected]>
+Description:	The /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator directory will contain
+		files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table initiator data.
+		Usually this contains the Initiator name.
+
+What:		/sys/firmware/ibft/targetX
+Date:		November 2007
+Contact:	Konrad Rzeszutek <[email protected]>
+Description:	The /sys/firmware/ibft/targetX directory will contain
+		files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table target data.
+		Usually this contains the target's IP address, boot LUN,
+		target name, and what NIC it is associated with. It can also
+		contain the CHAP name (and password), the reverse CHAP
+		name (and password)
+
+What:		/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernetX
+Date:		November 2007
+Contact:	Konrad Rzeszutek <[email protected]>
+Description:	The /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernetX directory will contain
+		files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table NIC data.
+		This can this can the IP address, MAC, and gateway of the NIC.

index a1d7071..127652d 100644
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/edd.h>
+#include <linux/iscsi_ibft.h>
 #include <linux/nodemask.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 #include <linux/crash_dump.h>

@@ -654,6 +655,8 @@ void __init setup_bootmem_allocator(void)
 #endif
 	numa_kva_reserve();
 	reserve_crashkernel();
+
+	reserve_ibft_region();
 }
 
 /*

index 7637dc9..207a5ff 100644
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/acpi.h>
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 #include <linux/edd.h>
+#include <linux/iscsi_ibft.h>
 #include <linux/mmzone.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 #include <linux/cpufreq.h>

@@ -425,6 +426,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	}
 #endif
 	reserve_crashkernel();
+
+	reserve_ibft_region();
+
 	paging_init();
 	map_vsyscall();
 

index 05f02a3..40ffd76 100644
@@ -93,4 +93,24 @@ config DMIID
 	  information from userspace through /sys/class/dmi/id/ or if you want
 	  DMI-based module auto-loading.
 
+config ISCSI_IBFT_FIND
+	bool "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes"
+	depends on X86
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option enables the kernel to find the region of memory
+	  in which the ISCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) resides. This
+	  is necessary for iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes module to work
+	  properly.
+
+config ISCSI_IBFT
+	tristate "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes module"
+	depends on ISCSI_IBFT_FIND
+	default	n
+	help
+	  This option enables support for detection and exposing of iSCSI
+	  Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) via sysfs to userspace. If you wish to
+	  detect iSCSI boot parameters dynamically during system boot, say Y.
+	  Otherwise, say N.
+
 endmenu

index 8d4ebc8..4c91471 100644
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_PCDP)		+= pcdp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_RBU)          += dell_rbu.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DCDBAS)		+= dcdbas.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DMIID)		+= dmi-id.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND)	+= iscsi_ibft_find.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT)	+= iscsi_ibft.o