This patch adds the logic to locate and open an environment block that
is stored in a reserved area on the device. It introduces the function
fs_envblk_open() together with helper routines to read the block pointed
to by the env_block variable, and to create the block on disk when it
does not exist yet. When a block is created, the code records its
location inside the file based envblk by setting env_block in block list
syntax of offset plus size in sectors.
The env_block variable acts as a link from the file envblk to the raw
disk region so that later runs of grub-editenv can follow it and access
the external block. The helper is exposed through a small ops table
attached to fs_envblk so that later patches can call
fs_envblk->ops->open() without touching core code again. At this stage
variables are still stored in the file envblk and no redirection has
been applied.
In relation to this, the fs_envblk_spec table defines the file-system
specific layout of the reserved raw blocks used for environment storage.
It is prepared to facilitate integration in grub-editenv, with Btrfs to
be added in the future once its reserved area is defined.
An fs_envblk_init() helper is added to prepare it for using the ops with
its associated data context if the feature is available. It is not used
yet, but will be used later when a filesystem and its device are probed
to initialize the fs_envblk handle and enable access to the feature.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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