On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:01 AM Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:46 PM Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:50:48PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> > > Hi Tom,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 9:37 PM Tom Rini <tr...@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...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 3:22 PM Masahiro Yamada
> > > > > > <masahi...@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...@gmail.com>
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@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...@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.
> >
> > Ah, OK. But shouldn't we make sure that asm-offsets are consistent
> > between SPL/TPL/U-Boot? Or is there a use-case where it makes sense for
> > them to differ intentionally?
Maybe, save memory for SPL/TPL ?
We can say "do not do that", but it is fragile.
People are adding #ifdef around to all sort of structs,
and it is difficult to guess which ones are used to
construct asm-offsets.
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
