[PATCH u-boot-marvell 08/11] tools: kwbimage: Align kwbimage header to proper size

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Wed Nov 10 09:28:56 CET 2021


On 08.11.21 18:12, Marek Behún wrote:
> From: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> 
> Currently kwbimage header is always aligned to 4096 bytes. But it does not
> have to be aligned to such a high value.
> 
> The header needs to be just 4-byte aligned, while some image types have
> additional alignment restrictions.
> 
> This change reduces size of kwbimage binaries by removing extra padding
> between header and data part.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun at nic.cz>

Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Thanks,
Stefan

> ---
>   tools/kwbimage.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/kwbimage.c b/tools/kwbimage.c
> index a6f2659ab4..8dcfebcb57 100644
> --- a/tools/kwbimage.c
> +++ b/tools/kwbimage.c
> @@ -858,6 +858,27 @@ done:
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> +static size_t image_headersz_align(size_t headersz, uint8_t blockid)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Header needs to be 4-byte aligned, which is already ensured by code
> +	 * above. Moreover UART images must have header aligned to 128 bytes
> +	 * (xmodem block size), NAND images to 256 bytes (ECC calculation),
> +	 * and SATA and SDIO images to 512 bytes (storage block size).
> +	 * Note that SPI images do not have to have header size aligned
> +	 * to 256 bytes because it is possible to read from SPI storage from
> +	 * any offset (read offset does not have to be aligned to block size).
> +	 */
> +	if (blockid == IBR_HDR_UART_ID)
> +		return ALIGN(headersz, 128);
> +	else if (blockid == IBR_HDR_NAND_ID)
> +		return ALIGN(headersz, 256);
> +	else if (blockid == IBR_HDR_SATA_ID || blockid == IBR_HDR_SDIO_ID)
> +		return ALIGN(headersz, 512);
> +	else
> +		return headersz;
> +}
> +
>   static void *image_create_v0(size_t *imagesz, struct image_tool_params *params,
>   			     int payloadsz)
>   {
> @@ -994,11 +1015,7 @@ static size_t image_headersz_v1(int *hasext)
>   			*hasext = 1;
>   	}
>   
> -	/*
> -	 * The payload should be aligned on some reasonable
> -	 * boundary
> -	 */
> -	return ALIGN(headersz, 4096);
> +	return image_headersz_align(headersz, image_get_bootfrom());
>   }
>   
>   int add_binary_header_v1(uint8_t **cur, uint8_t **next_ext,
> 

Viele Grüße,
Stefan Roese

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