This is motivated by a want to reduce heap usage if the menu is being
skipped. Currently, the menu module must be loaded regardless of whether
it's being skipped or not, which adds a cool ~50-100KB worth of memory
usage.
Move the menu skip logic out to core (and remove a debug print), then check
in loader.lua if we should be skipping the menu and avoid loading the menu
module entirely if so. This keeps our memory usage below ~115KB for a boot
with the menu stripped.
Also worth noting: with this change, we no longer explicitly invoke autoboot
if we're skipping the menu. Instead, we let the standard loader behavior
apply: try to autoboot if we need to, then drop to a loader prompt if not or
if the autoboot sequence is interrupted. The only thing we still handle
before dropping to the loader autoboot sequence is loadelf(), so that we can
still apply any of our kernel loading behavior.
luacheck pointed out an assortment of issues, ranging from non-standard
globals being created as well as unused parameters, variables, and redundant
assignments.
Using '_' as a placeholder for values unused (whether it be parameters
unused or return values unused, assuming multiple return values) feels clean
and gets the point across, so I've adopted it. It also helps flag candidates
for cleanup later in some of the lambdas I've created, giving me an easy way
to re-evaluate later if we're still not using some of these features.
This module will, in the not-so-distant future, grow functionality for
reducing boilerplate in functions that implement cli commands. It will
likely also house most in-tree cli commands.
Provide a way for out-of-tree users of lualoader to patch into the loader
system without having to modify our distributed scripts.
Do note that we can't really offer any API compatibility guarantees at this
time due to the evolving nature of lualoader right now.
This still has some utility as local modules may add commands at the loader
prompt without relying heavily on lualoader features- this specific
functionality is less likely to change without more careful consideration.
Reviewed by: cem (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14439
This was also a convenience convention (for me) that is not very lua-tic.
Drop it.
I've maintained some parentheses where I'd prefer them, for example,
'if x or y or (z and w) then', but these situations are far and few between.
This was previously chosen out of convenience, as we had a mixed style and
needed to be consistent. I started learning Lua on Friday, so I switched
everything over. It is not a very lua-nic convention, though, so drop it.
Excessive parenthesizing around conditionals is next on the chopping block.
If we failed to execute the input line as pure lua, run the command through
parse for consistent argument parsing. Pass the parsed arguments through to
a global "cli_execute" written in Lua, which is expected to either handle it
or pass it back through to interp_builtin_cmd (via loader.command).
lua-handled cli commands will then exist as globals in whatever module they
most belong in, and invocations at the loader prompt will magically dispatch
to them if they exist.
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14450
These are the .lua files from from Pedro Souza's 2014 Summer of Code
project. Rui Paulo, Pedro Arthur and Wojciech A. Koszek also
contributed.
Obtained from: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code
Improve the SoC lua menu code to bring it in line with forth
menu functionality
Submitted by: Zakary Nafziger
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Use loader.setenv and loader.unsetenv instead of loader.perform
Convert from include("/boot/foo.lua") to foo = require("foo");
to bring in line with latest lua module conventions.
Enforce a uniform style for the new .lua files:
o hard tab indenation for 8 spaces
o don't have if foo then bar; else bas; end on one line
MFC After: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14295
