5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Guido Günther
d30d9dfc03 gpt-utils: Open block device read only when obtaining info
Otherwise reading information like `qbootctl -a` triggers removal and
readdition of all partitions like:

```
KERNEL[73264.679695] remove   /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
KERNEL[73264.748249] add      /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
KERNEL[73264.863286] remove   /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
KERNEL[73264.917664] add      /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV  [73264.980859] remove   /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV  [73265.150742] add      /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV  [73265.276134] remove   /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV  [73265.492442] add      /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
…[the same for all other partitions on sde]…
```

leading to wasted CPU cycles (and battery) but also making programms
that run right after that command and accessing one of the partitions
fail sporadically. This can be bad if those commands are e.g. doing a

```
cat /dev/disk/by-partlabel/boot_a
```

to backup the current boot partition.
2025-02-11 23:41:55 +00:00
Caleb Connolly
b8d2248914 add a flag to continue when ufs bsg device is missing
For some usecases it is desired to still update the GPT headers even if
the UFS BSG device is missing. Add a new flag which implements this
behaviour.

It isn't made the default because on some platforms this could result in
an unbootable device, there it's preferable to defer to the user by just
bailing out if the UFS BSG device is unavailable.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Connolly <caleb@connolly.tech>
2023-09-27 18:56:43 +01:00
Caleb Connolly
74fcde7a8e header fixes 2023-06-26 14:44:24 +01:00
Caleb Connolly
e9e86efb96 even even more rework, drop zlib dep
Also fix the mark_boot_successful feature which I broke earlier
2023-06-24 01:04:15 +01:00
Caleb Connolly
bca9aa5dd7 more rework, cleanup, port to pure C
The only C++ was for handling discovering and iterating over the
partitions PER block device, this was implemented in a really
overcomplicated way.

Simplify things, port everything over to c11 and drop the libstdc++
requirement entirely.
2023-06-24 00:06:02 +01:00