Add a spawn command which runs another command in the background, as
well as a wait command to suspend the shell until one or more background
jobs have completed. The job_id environment variable is set by spawn and
wait accepts optional job ids, so that one can selectively wait on any
job.
Example:
=> date; spawn sleep 5; spawn sleep 3; date; echo "waiting..."; wait; date
Date: 2025-02-21 (Friday) Time: 17:04:52
Date: 2025-02-21 (Friday) Time: 17:04:52
waiting...
Date: 2025-02-21 (Friday) Time: 17:04:57
=>
Another example showing how background jobs can make initlizations
faster. The board is i.MX93 EVK, with one spinning HDD connected to
USB1 via a hub, and a network cable plugged into ENET1.
# From power up / reset
u-boot=> setenv autoload 0
u-boot=> setenv ud "usb start; dhcp"
u-boot=> time run ud
[...]
time: 8.058 seconds
# From power up / reset
u-boot=> setenv autoload 0
u-boot=> setenv ud "spawn usb start; spawn dhcp; wait"
u-boot=> time run ud
[...]
time: 4.475 seconds
Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.foriss...@linaro.org>
---
cmd/Kconfig | 17 +++++
cmd/Makefile | 2 +
cmd/spawn.c | 188 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 207 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 cmd/spawn.c
diff --git a/cmd/Kconfig b/cmd/Kconfig
index cd391d422ae..0cbb75edfbe 100644
--- a/cmd/Kconfig
+++ b/cmd/Kconfig
@@ -3079,4 +3079,21 @@ config CMD_MESON
help
Enable useful commands for the Meson Soc family developed by Amlogic
Inc.
+config CMD_SPAWN
+ bool "spawn and wait commands"
+ depends on UTHREAD
+ help
+ spawn runs a command in the background and sets the job_id environment
+ variable. wait is used to suspend the shell execution until one or
more
+ jobs are complete.
+
+config CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS
+ int "Maximum number of simultaneous jobs for spawn"
+ default 16
+ help
+ Job identifiers are in the range 1..CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS. In other words
+ there can be no more that CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS running simultaneously.
+ When a jobs exits, its identifier is available to be re-used by the
next
+ spawn command.
+
endif
diff --git a/cmd/Makefile b/cmd/Makefile
index c1275d466c8..b61f6586157 100644
--- a/cmd/Makefile
+++ b/cmd/Makefile
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_SCP03) += scp03.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HUSH_SELECTABLE) += cli.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN) += spawn.o
+
obj-$(CONFIG_ARM) += arm/
obj-$(CONFIG_RISCV) += riscv/
obj-$(CONFIG_SANDBOX) += sandbox/
diff --git a/cmd/spawn.c b/cmd/spawn.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f7a9f225f93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/spawn.c
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
+ */
+
+#include <command.h>
+#include <console.h>
+#include <malloc.h>
+#include <vsprintf.h>
+#include <uthread.h>
+
+/* Spawn arguments and job index */
+struct spa {
+ int argc;
+ char **argv;
+ unsigned int job_idx;
+};
+
+/*
+ * uthread group identifiers for each running job
+ * 0: job slot available, != 0: uthread group id
+ * Note that job[0] is job_id 1, job[1] is job_id 2 etc.
+ */
+static unsigned int job[CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS];
+/*
+ * Return values of the commands run as jobs */
+static enum command_ret_t job_ret[CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS];
+
+static void spa_free(struct spa *spa)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ if (!spa)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < spa->argc; i++)
+ free(spa->argv[i]);
+ free(spa->argv);
+ free(spa);
+}
+
+static struct spa *spa_create(int argc, char *const argv[])
+{
+ struct spa *spa;
+ int i;
+
+ spa = calloc(1, sizeof(*spa));
+ if (!spa)
+ return NULL;
+ spa->argc = argc;
+ spa->argv = malloc(argc * sizeof(char *));
+ if (!spa->argv)
+ goto err;
+ for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+ spa->argv[i] = strdup(argv[i]);
+ if (!spa->argv[i])
+ goto err;
+ }
+ return spa;
+err:
+ spa_free(spa);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+static void spawn_thread(void *arg)
+{
+ struct spa *spa = (struct spa *)arg;
+ ulong cycles = 0;
+ int repeatable = 0;
+
+ job_ret[spa->job_idx] = cmd_process(0, spa->argc, spa->argv,
+ &repeatable, &cycles);
+ spa_free(spa);
+}
+
+static unsigned int next_job_id(void)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS; i++)
+ if (!job[i])
+ return i + 1;
+
+ /* No job available */
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void refresh_jobs(void)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS; i++)
+ if (job[i] && uthread_grp_done(job[i]))
+ job[i] = 0;
+
+}
+
+static int do_spawn(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
+ char *const argv[])
+{
+ unsigned int id;
+ unsigned int idx;
+ struct spa *spa;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (argc == 1)
+ return CMD_RET_USAGE;
+
+ spa = spa_create(argc - 1, argv + 1);
+ if (!spa)
+ return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+
+ refresh_jobs();
+
+ id = next_job_id();
+ if (!id)
+ return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+ idx = id - 1;
+
+ job[idx] = uthread_grp_new_id();
+
+ ret = uthread_create(NULL, spawn_thread, spa, 0, job[idx]);
+ if (ret) {
+ job[idx] = 0;
+ return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+ }
+
+ ret = env_set_ulong("job_id", id);
+ if (ret)
+ return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+
+ return CMD_RET_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+U_BOOT_CMD(spawn, CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS, 0, do_spawn,
+ "run commands and summarize execution time",
+ "command [args...]\n");
+
+static enum command_ret_t wait_job(unsigned int idx)
+{
+ int prev = disable_ctrlc(false);
+
+ while (!uthread_grp_done(job[idx])) {
+ if (ctrlc()) {
+ puts("<INTERRUPT>\n");
+ disable_ctrlc(prev);
+ return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+ }
+ uthread_schedule();
+ }
+
+ job[idx] = 0;
+ disable_ctrlc(prev);
+
+ return job_ret[idx];
+}
+
+static int do_wait(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
+ char *const argv[])
+{
+ enum command_ret_t ret = CMD_RET_SUCCESS;
+ unsigned long id;
+ unsigned int idx;
+ int i;
+
+ if (argc == 1) {
+ for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS; i++)
+ if (job[idx])
+ ret = wait_job(i);
+ } else {
+ for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
+ id = dectoul(argv[i], NULL);
+ if (id < 0 || id > CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN_NUM_JOBS)
+ return CMD_RET_USAGE;
+ idx = (int)id - 1;
+ ret = wait_job(idx);
+ }
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+U_BOOT_CMD(wait, CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS, 0, do_wait,
+ "wait for one or more jobs to complete",
+ "[job_id ...]\n"
+ " - Wait until all specified jobs have exited and return the\n"
+ " exit status of the last job waited for. When no job_id is\n"
+ " given, wait for all the background jobs.\n");
--
2.43.0
