Re: [MirageOS-devel] How to support a larger disk with hvt + kv_ro=direct (pass-through)?

[Hiroshi Doyu <hiroshi.doyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ricardo,

Most likely you are right since this shows too. I'll check this later.
https://github.com/ehirdoy/ocaml-fat/commit/32894feed7c9248ae50d332e4fabdeee22f0df8a

On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 14:03 +0000, Ricardo Koller wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm pretty sure it's this: 
> https://github.com/Solo5/solo5/blob/master/bindings/hvt/block.c#L77-L80
> And from those three checks, the most likely one failing is that the request 
> is larger than a block.
>  
> Could you confirm that please? in that case, then we need to split the 
> request somewhere, or even better, fix this: 
> https://github.com/Solo5/solo5/issues/325
> 
> Ricardo
>  
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Hiroshi Doyu <hiroshi.doyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [MirageOS-devel] How to support a larger disk with hvt + 
> kv_ro=direct (pass-through)?
> Date: Mon, Apr 8, 2019 7:01 AM
>  
> I found that "--kv_ro=fat" integrates FAT+disk.image automatically.
> This works with "-t unix --kv_ro=fat" but not with "-t hvt --kv_ro=fat" as 
> below.
> Any hint to investigate further?
> 
> $~/src/mirage-skeleton/device-usage/kv_ro$ sudo ./solo5-hvt 
> --disk=fat_block1.img kv_ro.hvt -l "*:debug"
>             |      ___|
>   __|  _ \  |  _ \ __ \
> \__ \ (   | | (   |  ) |
> ____/\___/ _|\___/____/
> Solo5: Memory map: 512 MB addressable:
> Solo5:     unused @ (0x0 - 0xfffff)
> Solo5:       text @ (0x100000 - 0x22bfff)
> Solo5:     rodata @ (0x22c000 - 0x268fff)
> Solo5:       data @ (0x269000 - 0x34bfff)
> Solo5:       heap >= 0x34c000 < stack < 0x20000000
> 2019-04-08 10:27:23 -00:00: ERR [application] main: (Failure "error reading 
> essential sectors: Invalid argument")
> Raised at file "src/core/lwt.ml", line 2998, characters 20-29
> Called from file "lib/main.ml", line 64, characters 15-25
> 
> 
> Also "fat" command seems to need "--unbuffered" appended.
> 
> On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 18:44 +0200, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Configured unix+kv_ro=direct, it seems to read a file from disk 
> > dynamically[1].
> > But hvt+kv_ro=direct seems to use a ramdisk(crunch?) statically[2].
> >
> > How can hvt do the similar pass-through to a file as "unix+kv_ro=direct"?
> >
> > [1]
> > $ mirage configure -t unix --kv_ro=direct && make depend && make
> > $ ./kv_ro 
> > 2019-03-26 16:31:28 +00:00: INF [application] foo
> > $ echo -n "hello" > t/secret 
> > $ ./kv_ro 
> > 2019-03-26 16:32:15 +00:00: INF [application] hello
> >
> > [2]
> > $ mirage configure -t hvt --kv_ro=direct && make depend && make
> > $ sudo ./solo5-hvt kv_ro.hvt 
> > 2019-03-26 16:34:19 -00:00: INF [application] foo
> > $ echo -n "hello" > t/secret 
> > $ sudo ./solo5-hvt kv_ro.hvt 
> > 2019-03-26 16:35:11 -00:00: INF [application] foo
> >
> > the above code change for skelton/device-usage/kv_ro:
> > https://github.com/ehirdoy/mirage-skeleton/commit/bff6688e075ffec67723d5663a984263bffa8563
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