[PATCH v2 3/3] kbuild: SPL/TPL: generate separate asm-offsets.h for SPL and TPL

[Bin Meng]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 9:37 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:37:28AM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:37 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 3:22 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Currently generic-asm-offsets.h and asm-offsets.h are generated based
> > > > on U-Boot proper config options. The same asm-offsets headers are used
> > > > for building U-Boot SPL/TPL, which causes potential offset mismatch if
> > > > U-Boot proper has different config options from U-Boot SPL/TPL.
> > > >
> > > > This commit adds:
> > > >   spl/include/generated/(generic-)asm-offsets.h
> > > >   tpl/include/generated/(generic-)asm-offsets.h
> > > >
> > > > spl/include/generated/(generic-)asm-offsets.h is generated if
> > > > CONFIG_SPL=y, and included when building SPL.
> > > >
> > > > tpl/include/generated/(generic-)asm-offsets.h is generated if
> > > > CONFIG_TPL=y, and included when building TPL.
> > > >
> > > > They are created before Kbuild descends into SPL/TPL object directories
> > > > and builds $(obj)/dts/dt-platdata.o because $(obj)/dts/dt-platdata.c
> > > > includes a bunch of headers.
> > > >
> > > > Prepend -I$(obj)/include to $(UBOOTINCLUDE) so (generic-)asm-offsets.h
> > > > is searched in {spl,tpl}/include/generated/.
> > > >
> > > > Requested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > Changes in v2: None
> > > >
> > > >  Kbuild               |  4 ++--
> > > >  scripts/Makefile.spl | 10 ++++++++--
> > > >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > It works like a charm. Thanks!
> > >
> > > Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> >
> > It looks only patch 1 and 2 in this series were applied. This patch was missed.
>
> So, I was going to ask and forgot, sorry.  Why do we need to have these
> differ between TPL/SPL/U-Boot itself, and then why is that good?  I

Because currently the offsets
{spl,tpl}/include/generated/(generic-)asm-offsets.h are generated per
the U-Boot config options. But SPL and TPL are not guaranteed to have
the same config options.

For example it's possible to have SPL/TPL turned on
{SPL,TPL}_CONFIG_XXX but U-Boot to turn off CONFIG_XXX, or vice verse.

To me this is more like a bug fix other than a feature.

> thought this was something we wanted to ensure was consistent from stage
> to stage to facilitate sharing of information.  But I also am happy to
> assume I just missed an explanation along the way.  Thanks!

Regards,
Bin