[PATCH] binman: Increase default fitImage data section resize step from 1k to 64k

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Jul 12 19:41:29 CEST 2022


Currently the fitImage data area is resized in 1 kiB steps. This works
when bundling smaller images below some 1 MiB, but when bundling large
images into the fitImage, this make binman spend extreme amount of time
and CPU just spinning in pylibfdt FdtSw.check_space() until the size
grows enough for the large image to fit into the data area. Increase
the default step to 64 kiB, which is a reasonable compromise -- the
U-Boot blobs are somewhere in the 64kiB...1MiB range, DT blob are just
short of 64 kiB, and so are the other blobs. This reduces binman runtime
with 32 MiB blob from 2.3 minutes to 5 seconds.

The following can be used to trigger the problem if rand.bin is some 32 MiB.
"
/ {
  itb {
    fit {
      images {
        test {
          compression = "none";
          description = "none";
          type = "flat_dt";

          blob {
            filename = "rand.bin";
            type = "blob-ext";
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };

  configurations {
    binman_configuration: config {
      loadables = "test";
    };
  };
};
"

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
Cc: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak at gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 tools/binman/etype/fit.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/fit.py b/tools/binman/etype/fit.py
index 12306623af6..ad43fce18ec 100644
--- a/tools/binman/etype/fit.py
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/fit.py
@@ -658,6 +658,7 @@ class Entry_fit(Entry_section):
         # Build a new tree with all nodes and properties starting from the
         # entry node
         fsw = libfdt.FdtSw()
+        fsw.INC_SIZE = 65536
         fsw.finish_reservemap()
         to_remove = []
         loadables = []
-- 
2.35.1



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