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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3] spl: add overall SPL size check
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 10:54:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190527145447.GA20781@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fb8f138-e3fd-852e-5a45-7b436b3b55af@ti.com>

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 03:47:13PM +0200, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:
> Simon,
> 
> 
> On 24/05/2019 22:10, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> >Am 24.05.2019 um 22:07 schrieb Simon Goldschmidt:
> >>This adds a size check for SPL that can dynamically check generated
> >>SPL binaries (including devicetree) for a size limit that ensures
> >>this image plus global data, heap and stack fit in initial SRAM.
> >>
> >>Since some of these sizes are not available to make, a new host tool
> >>'spl_size_limit' is added that dumps the resulting maximum size for
> >>an SPL binary to stdout. This tool is used in toplevel Makefile to
> >>implement the size check on SPL binaries.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt@gmail.com>
> >>---
> >>
> >>Changes in v3:
> >>- don't build this new tools for 'make tools-only'
> >
> >So this is how far I got.
> >
> >Tom, your idea with making this multi-config aware (U-Boot, SPL and TPL)
> >does not seem to work as 'tools' are only built once, not once per
> >U-Boot/SPL/TPL. So if we wanted to use this for TPL, too, that would
> >either mean create yet another tool or pass an option to this new tool to
> >differ between SPL and TPL.
> 
> If the trouble comes from GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE, you could get its value
> by parsing lib/asm-offsets.s. all the other values could be extracted from
> {.,spl,tpl}/u-boot.cfg

Getting that file to exist has the same problem over for "tools-only".

> If this flies, it could be done by a python script without the need to
> compile a program

I'm not sure that provides better clarity over what we have here tho.
Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-27 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-24 20:07 [U-Boot] [PATCH v3] spl: add overall SPL size check Simon Goldschmidt
2019-05-24 20:10 ` Simon Goldschmidt
2019-05-26 11:09   ` Tom Rini
2019-05-27 13:47   ` Jean-Jacques Hiblot
2019-05-27 14:54     ` Tom Rini [this message]
2019-05-27 15:15       ` Simon Goldschmidt
2019-05-28 15:18         ` Jean-Jacques Hiblot
2019-05-28 15:51           ` Simon Goldschmidt
2019-05-27 16:35 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-27 16:48   ` Tom Rini
2019-05-27 19:28     ` Simon Goldschmidt
2019-06-07 22:05 ` Tom Rini

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