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[10/25] binman: Move section-building code into a function

Message ID 20201019024138.3804540-10-sjg@chromium.org
State Superseded
Delegated to: Simon Glass
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Series binman: Support compression of sections | expand

Commit Message

Simon Glass Oct. 19, 2020, 2:41 a.m. UTC
Create a new _BuildSectionData() to hold the code that is now in
GetData(), so that it is clearly separated from entry.GetData() base
function.

Separate out the 'pad-before' processing to make this easier to
understand.

Unfortunately this breaks the testDual test. Rather than squash several
patches into an un-reviewable glob, disable the test for now.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
---

 tools/binman/etype/section.py | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 tools/binman/ftest.py         |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Alper Nebi Yasak Oct. 19, 2020, 8:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On 19/10/2020 05:41, Simon Glass wrote:
> Create a new _BuildSectionData() to hold the code that is now in
> GetData(), so that it is clearly separated from entry.GetData() base
> function.
> 
> Separate out the 'pad-before' processing to make this easier to
> understand.
> 
> Unfortunately this breaks the testDual test. Rather than squash several
> patches into an un-reviewable glob, disable the test for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> ---
> 
>  tools/binman/etype/section.py | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  tools/binman/ftest.py         |  3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/section.py b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
> index 9222042f5d8..d05adf00274 100644
> --- a/tools/binman/etype/section.py
> +++ b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
> @@ -144,24 +144,47 @@ class Entry_section(Entry):
>      def ObtainContents(self):
>          return self.GetEntryContents()
>  
> -    def GetData(self):
> +    def _BuildSectionData(self):
> +        """Build the contents of a section
> +
> +        This places all entries at the right place, dealing with padding before
> +        and after entries. It does not do padding for the section itself (the
> +        pad-before and pad-after properties in the section items) since that is
> +        handled by the parent section.
> +
> +        Returns:
> +            Contents of the section (bytes)
> +        """
>          section_data = b''
>  
>          for entry in self._entries.values():
>              data = entry.GetData()
> -            base = self.pad_before + (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start
> -            pad = base - len(section_data) + (entry.pad_before or 0)
> +            # Handle empty space before the entry
> +            pad = (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start - len(section_data)
>              if pad > 0:
>                  section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
> +
> +            # Handle padding before the entry
> +            if entry.pad_before:
> +                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_before)

Consider this fragment:

    section {
        skip-at-start = <16>;

        blob {
            pad-before = <16>;
            filename = "foo";
        }
    }

Is this invalid as 'blob' isn't offset > skip-at-start? This wouldn't
be padded in the earlier code, but would be padded after this (assuming
it doesn't error out) -- was that a bug or undefined behaviour or
something?

> +
> +            # Add in the actual entry data
>              section_data += data
> +
> +            # Handle padding after the entry
> +            if entry.pad_after:
> +                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_after)
> +
>          if self.size:
> -            pad = self.size - len(section_data)
> -            if pad > 0:
> -                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
> +            section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte,
> +                                           self.size - len(section_data))
>          self.Detail('GetData: %d entries, total size %#x' %
>                      (len(self._entries), len(section_data)))
>          return self.CompressData(section_data)
>  
> +    def GetData(self):
> +        return self._BuildSectionData()
> +
>      def GetOffsets(self):
>          """Handle entries that want to set the offset/size of other entries
>  
> diff --git a/tools/binman/ftest.py b/tools/binman/ftest.py
> index e265941a392..3c6eb7f6736 100644
> --- a/tools/binman/ftest.py
> +++ b/tools/binman/ftest.py
> @@ -706,7 +706,8 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
>          """Test a simple binman run with debugging enabled"""
>          self._DoTestFile('005_simple.dts', debug=True)
>  
> -    def testDual(self):
> +    # Disable for now until padding of images is supported
> +    def xtestDual(self):

I think you could use @unittest.skip() here, but perhaps it's not worth
doing a v2 for that (especially since you're re-enabling it later in the
series).

>          """Test that we can handle creating two images
>  
>          This also tests image padding.
>
Simon Glass Oct. 26, 2020, 7:22 p.m. UTC | #2
Hi Alper,

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:29, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/10/2020 05:41, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Create a new _BuildSectionData() to hold the code that is now in
> > GetData(), so that it is clearly separated from entry.GetData() base
> > function.
> >
> > Separate out the 'pad-before' processing to make this easier to
> > understand.
> >
> > Unfortunately this breaks the testDual test. Rather than squash several
> > patches into an un-reviewable glob, disable the test for now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> >  tools/binman/etype/section.py | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  tools/binman/ftest.py         |  3 ++-
> >  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/section.py b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
> > index 9222042f5d8..d05adf00274 100644
> > --- a/tools/binman/etype/section.py
> > +++ b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
> > @@ -144,24 +144,47 @@ class Entry_section(Entry):
> >      def ObtainContents(self):
> >          return self.GetEntryContents()
> >
> > -    def GetData(self):
> > +    def _BuildSectionData(self):
> > +        """Build the contents of a section
> > +
> > +        This places all entries at the right place, dealing with padding before
> > +        and after entries. It does not do padding for the section itself (the
> > +        pad-before and pad-after properties in the section items) since that is
> > +        handled by the parent section.
> > +
> > +        Returns:
> > +            Contents of the section (bytes)
> > +        """
> >          section_data = b''
> >
> >          for entry in self._entries.values():
> >              data = entry.GetData()
> > -            base = self.pad_before + (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start
> > -            pad = base - len(section_data) + (entry.pad_before or 0)
> > +            # Handle empty space before the entry
> > +            pad = (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start - len(section_data)
> >              if pad > 0:
> >                  section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
> > +
> > +            # Handle padding before the entry
> > +            if entry.pad_before:
> > +                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_before)
>
> Consider this fragment:
>
>     section {
>         skip-at-start = <16>;
>
>         blob {
>             pad-before = <16>;
>             filename = "foo";
>         }
>     }
>
> Is this invalid as 'blob' isn't offset > skip-at-start? This wouldn't
> be padded in the earlier code, but would be padded after this (assuming
> it doesn't error out) -- was that a bug or undefined behaviour or
> something?

You have very sharp eyes.

The case you list seems to produce the same result before and after
this patch. But if I put the padding at the top level it does strange
things, so perhaps that's what you mean?

I've added a few test cases along these lines in v2, and one of them
certainly different behaviour. This is good actually since it shows a
simple case of what these padding changes are intended to fix.




>
> > +
> > +            # Add in the actual entry data
> >              section_data += data
> > +
> > +            # Handle padding after the entry
> > +            if entry.pad_after:
> > +                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_after)
> > +
> >          if self.size:
> > -            pad = self.size - len(section_data)
> > -            if pad > 0:
> > -                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
> > +            section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte,
> > +                                           self.size - len(section_data))
> >          self.Detail('GetData: %d entries, total size %#x' %
> >                      (len(self._entries), len(section_data)))
> >          return self.CompressData(section_data)
> >
> > +    def GetData(self):
> > +        return self._BuildSectionData()
> > +
> >      def GetOffsets(self):
> >          """Handle entries that want to set the offset/size of other entries
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/binman/ftest.py b/tools/binman/ftest.py
> > index e265941a392..3c6eb7f6736 100644
> > --- a/tools/binman/ftest.py
> > +++ b/tools/binman/ftest.py
> > @@ -706,7 +706,8 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
> >          """Test a simple binman run with debugging enabled"""
> >          self._DoTestFile('005_simple.dts', debug=True)
> >
> > -    def testDual(self):
> > +    # Disable for now until padding of images is supported
> > +    def xtestDual(self):
>
> I think you could use @unittest.skip() here, but perhaps it's not worth
> doing a v2 for that (especially since you're re-enabling it later in the
> series).

Yes, will do.

>
> >          """Test that we can handle creating two images
> >
> >          This also tests image padding.
> >

Regards,
Simon
Alper Nebi Yasak Oct. 26, 2020, 11:17 p.m. UTC | #3
On 26/10/2020 22:22, Simon Glass wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:29, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19/10/2020 05:41, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>          for entry in self._entries.values():
>>>              data = entry.GetData()
>>> -            base = self.pad_before + (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start
>>> -            pad = base - len(section_data) + (entry.pad_before or 0)
>>> +            # Handle empty space before the entry
>>> +            pad = (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start - len(section_data)
>>>              if pad > 0:
>>>                  section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
>>> +
>>> +            # Handle padding before the entry
>>> +            if entry.pad_before:
>>> +                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_before)
>>
>> Consider this fragment:
>>
>>     section {
>>         skip-at-start = <16>;
>>
>>         blob {
>>             pad-before = <16>;
>>             filename = "foo";
>>         }
>>     }
>>
>> Is this invalid as 'blob' isn't offset > skip-at-start? This wouldn't
>> be padded in the earlier code, but would be padded after this (assuming
>> it doesn't error out) -- was that a bug or undefined behaviour or
>> something?
> 
> You have very sharp eyes.

Thanks! I had actually tried to copy this to the fit etype before making
it use the section etype directly, so I did read and think about this
part (and Pack()) a lot to better understand how things were supposed to
work.

> The case you list seems to produce the same result before and after
> this patch. But if I put the padding at the top level it does strange
> things, so perhaps that's what you mean?

I was trying to write a case where a pad = (-16) + (16) = 0 gets split
into two (pad = -16, then entry.pad_before = 16) after that change,
causing a change in padding. Still looks correct to me, but I didn't
actually run anything so I'm probably getting something wrong.

> I've added a few test cases along these lines in v2, and one of them
> certainly different behaviour. This is good actually since it shows a
> simple case of what these padding changes are intended to fix.
Simon Glass Nov. 3, 2020, 3:11 p.m. UTC | #4
Hi Alper,

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 17:20, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26/10/2020 22:22, Simon Glass wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:29, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 19/10/2020 05:41, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>>          for entry in self._entries.values():
> >>>              data = entry.GetData()
> >>> -            base = self.pad_before + (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start
> >>> -            pad = base - len(section_data) + (entry.pad_before or 0)
> >>> +            # Handle empty space before the entry
> >>> +            pad = (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start - len(section_data)
> >>>              if pad > 0:
> >>>                  section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
> >>> +
> >>> +            # Handle padding before the entry
> >>> +            if entry.pad_before:
> >>> +                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_before)
> >>
> >> Consider this fragment:
> >>
> >>     section {
> >>         skip-at-start = <16>;
> >>
> >>         blob {
> >>             pad-before = <16>;
> >>             filename = "foo";
> >>         }
> >>     }
> >>
> >> Is this invalid as 'blob' isn't offset > skip-at-start? This wouldn't
> >> be padded in the earlier code, but would be padded after this (assuming
> >> it doesn't error out) -- was that a bug or undefined behaviour or
> >> something?
> >
> > You have very sharp eyes.
>
> Thanks! I had actually tried to copy this to the fit etype before making
> it use the section etype directly, so I did read and think about this
> part (and Pack()) a lot to better understand how things were supposed to
> work.
>
> > The case you list seems to produce the same result before and after
> > this patch. But if I put the padding at the top level it does strange
> > things, so perhaps that's what you mean?
>
> I was trying to write a case where a pad = (-16) + (16) = 0 gets split
> into two (pad = -16, then entry.pad_before = 16) after that change,
> causing a change in padding. Still looks correct to me, but I didn't
> actually run anything so I'm probably getting something wrong.
>
> > I've added a few test cases along these lines in v2, and one of them
> > certainly different behaviour. This is good actually since it shows a
> > simple case of what these padding changes are intended to fix.

See what you think of the above test cases - testSectionPad() and
testSectionAlign()

Regards,
Simon
Alper Nebi Yasak Nov. 4, 2020, 9:50 p.m. UTC | #5
On 03/11/2020 18:11, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Alper,
> 
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 17:20, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 26/10/2020 22:22, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> I've added a few test cases along these lines in v2, and one of them
>>> certainly different behaviour. This is good actually since it shows a
>>> simple case of what these padding changes are intended to fix.
> 
> See what you think of the above test cases - testSectionPad() and
> testSectionAlign()

I've tried to visualize those tests a bit, in the following:

- The vertical line of numbers is the offsets, usually starts with 0 and
  ends with entry.size of that entry.
- The offset to the upper-left of a block is that entry's entry.offset
- The "*" offsets are unconstrained, determined as parts are fitted
  together.
- The "k*n" are offsets for alignment that must be a multiple of k
- The vertical "[...]" line is what the entry.data returns for that
  entry.
- The horizontal line from a value is what the value corresponds to.

Hope things make sense. I kind of started drawing things to gather my
thoughts and improve my understanding, but didn't want to discard them.
Please do tell if anything's wrong.


== 177_skip_at_start.dts ==

    binman {
    [ 0
    . | section {
    . | [ 0
    . | . | 16 -------------------- binman/section:skip-at-start
    . | . | | u-boot {
    . | . | | [ 0
    . | . | | . | U_BOOT_DATA
    . | . | | ] *
    . | . | | }
    . | . | *
    . | ] *
    . | }
    ] *
    }

I understand skip-at-start as if it's creating a frame of reference for
alignments. Then, that frame is mapped back to starting from zero.

It looks weird here for me to use two nested offset-lines here. I can't
use one line that starts at skip-at-start, because that changes the
entry.offset if the section has pad-before.


== 178_skip_at_start_pad.dts ==

    binman {
    [ 0
    . | section {
    . | [ 0
    . | . | 16 -------------------- binman/section:skip-at-start
    . | . | | u-boot {
    . | . | |   0
    . | . | |   | 8 x <0x00>
    . | . | |   |  \--------------- binman/section/u-boot:pad-before
    . | . | | [ *
    . | . | | . | U_BOOT_DATA
    . | . | | ] *
    . | . | |   | 4 x <0x00>
    . | . | |   |  \--------------- binman/section/u-boot:pad-after
    . | . | |   * ----------------- binman/section/u-boot:size
    . | . | | }
    . | . | *
    . | ] *
    . | }
    ] *
    }

This is like the above, just adds padding to u-boot. I have to visualize
the padding as something inside the entry block, since alignments and
entry.size is calculated for the padded data, not the raw U_BOOT_DATA.
It's a bit weird but understandable that len(entry.data) != entry.size.


== 179_skip_at_start_section_pad.dts ==

    binman {
    [ 0
    . | section {
    . |   0
    . |   | 8 x <0x00>
    . |   |  \--------------------- binman/section:pad-before
    . | [ *
    . | . | 16 -------------------- binman/section:skip-at-start
    . | . | | u-boot {
    . | . | | [ 0
    . | . | | . | U_BOOT_DATA
    . | . | | ] *
    . | . | | }
    . | . | *
    . | ] *
    . |   | 4 x <0x00>
    . |   |  \--------------------- binman/section:pad-after
    . |   *
    . | }
    ] *
    }

I'm still having trouble with this. In the old code:

> base = self.pad_before + (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start
         8               + 16                  - 16
> pad = base - len(section_data) + (entry.pad_before or 0)
        8    - 0                 +  0
> if pad > 0:
     8
>     section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
                                                     8

So, why was it prepending 16 bytes? The only way I see is if u-boot
entry.offset is 24, but that's explicitly checked to be 16 in the test.

However, it's clear to me now that the fragment I sent wouldn't result
in different padding between two versions, because there entry.offset =
section.skip_at_start so the negative padding never happens.

Then, what does an entry.offset < section.skip-at-start mean? That's
what was missing for the actual thing I was trying to trigger:

    section {
        skip-at-start = <16>;

        blob {
            offset = <0>;
            pad-before = <16>;
            filename = "foo";
        };
    };


== 180_section_pad.dts ==

  binman {
  [ 0
  . | section@0 {
  . |   0
  . |   | 3 x <0x26> -------------- binman:pad-byte
  . |   |  \----------------------- binman/section@0:pad-before
  . | [ *
  . | . | u-boot {
  . | . |   0
  . | . |   | 5 x <0x21> ---------- binman/section@0:pad-byte
  . | . |   |  \------------------- binman/section@0/u-boot:pad-before
  . | . | [ *
  . | . | . | U_BOOT_DATA
  . | . | ] *
  . | . |   | 1 x <0x21> ---------- binman/section@0:pad-byte
  . | . |   *  \------------------- binman/section@0/u-boot:pad-after
  . | . | }
  . | ] *
  . |   | 2 x <0x26> -------------- binman:pad-byte
  . |   |  \----------------------- binman/section@0:pad-after
  . |   *
  . | }
  ] *
  }

It looks like paddings are part of the entry:
- entry.offset and entry.image_pos point to pad-before padding
- entry.size includes both paddings
- pad-before, pad-after properties belong to the entry
- entry's parent aligns the entry with respect to the padded-data

But, also the opposite:
- entry.data doesn't include padding bytes
- it's entirely added by the entry's parent
- pad-byte property belongs to the parent

I have no idea which way things should go towards. I think padding could
be completely handled by the entries themselves. Section's
GetPaddedDataForEntry(entry, entry_data) could be moved to Entry as
GetPaddedData(pad_byte), which the parent section would use while
assembling itself. The pad_byte argument could be dropped by making the
entries find it by traversing upwards in the tree starting from the
entry itself (and not just checking the immediate parent).


== 181_section_align.dts ==

  binman {
  [ 0
  . | fill {
  . | [ 0
  . | . | <0x00>
  . | ] 1 ------------------------- binman/fill:size
  . | }
  . *
  . | <0x26> ---------------------- binman:pad-byte
  . 2*n --------------------------- binman/section@1:align
  . | section@1 {
  . | [ 0
  . | . | fill {
  . | . | [ 0
  . | . | . | <0x00>
  . | . | ] 1 --------------------- binman/section@1/fill:size
  . | . | }
  . | . *
  . | . | <0x21> ------------------ binman/section@1:pad-byte
  . | . 4*n ----------------------- binman/section@1/u-boot:align
  . | . | u-boot {
  . | . | [ 0
  . | . | . | U_BOOT_DATA
  . | . | ] *
  . | . |   | <0x21> -------------- binman/section@1:pad-byte
  . | . |   8*n ------------------- binman/section@1/u-boot:size
  . | . |    \----------------------binman/section@1/u-boot:align-size
  . | . | }
  . | ] *
  . |   | <0x21> ------------------ binman/section@1:pad-byte
  . |   0x10*n -------------------- binman/section@1:size
  . |     \------------------------ binman/section@1:align-size
  . | }
  ] *
  }

The pad-byte values here surprise me a bit. I'd say they should be the
parent's pad-byte, since I think this in-section alignment padding is
the same kind of thing as the pad-before and pad-after, and those use
the parent's. However, like what I said above, the latter two could
instead be changed to use the entry's pad-byte like this one.
Simon Glass Jan. 23, 2021, 4:15 p.m. UTC | #6
Hi Alper,

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 14:51, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/11/2020 18:11, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Alper,
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 17:20, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 26/10/2020 22:22, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>> I've added a few test cases along these lines in v2, and one of them
> >>> certainly different behaviour. This is good actually since it shows a
> >>> simple case of what these padding changes are intended to fix.
> >
> > See what you think of the above test cases - testSectionPad() and
> > testSectionAlign()
>
> I've tried to visualize those tests a bit, in the following:
>
> - The vertical line of numbers is the offsets, usually starts with 0 and
>   ends with entry.size of that entry.
> - The offset to the upper-left of a block is that entry's entry.offset
> - The "*" offsets are unconstrained, determined as parts are fitted
>   together.
> - The "k*n" are offsets for alignment that must be a multiple of k
> - The vertical "[...]" line is what the entry.data returns for that
>   entry.
> - The horizontal line from a value is what the value corresponds to.
>
> Hope things make sense. I kind of started drawing things to gather my
> thoughts and improve my understanding, but didn't want to discard them.
> Please do tell if anything's wrong.
>
>
> == 177_skip_at_start.dts ==
>
>     binman {
>     [ 0
>     . | section {
>     . | [ 0
>     . | . | 16 -------------------- binman/section:skip-at-start
>     . | . | | u-boot {
>     . | . | | [ 0
>     . | . | | . | U_BOOT_DATA
>     . | . | | ] *
>     . | . | | }
>     . | . | *
>     . | ] *
>     . | }
>     ] *
>     }
>
> I understand skip-at-start as if it's creating a frame of reference for
> alignments. Then, that frame is mapped back to starting from zero.
>
> It looks weird here for me to use two nested offset-lines here. I can't
> use one line that starts at skip-at-start, because that changes the
> entry.offset if the section has pad-before.
>
>
> == 178_skip_at_start_pad.dts ==
>
>     binman {
>     [ 0
>     . | section {
>     . | [ 0
>     . | . | 16 -------------------- binman/section:skip-at-start
>     . | . | | u-boot {
>     . | . | |   0
>     . | . | |   | 8 x <0x00>
>     . | . | |   |  \--------------- binman/section/u-boot:pad-before
>     . | . | | [ *
>     . | . | | . | U_BOOT_DATA
>     . | . | | ] *
>     . | . | |   | 4 x <0x00>
>     . | . | |   |  \--------------- binman/section/u-boot:pad-after
>     . | . | |   * ----------------- binman/section/u-boot:size
>     . | . | | }
>     . | . | *
>     . | ] *
>     . | }
>     ] *
>     }
>
> This is like the above, just adds padding to u-boot. I have to visualize
> the padding as something inside the entry block, since alignments and
> entry.size is calculated for the padded data, not the raw U_BOOT_DATA.
> It's a bit weird but understandable that len(entry.data) != entry.size.
>
>
> == 179_skip_at_start_section_pad.dts ==
>
>     binman {
>     [ 0
>     . | section {
>     . |   0
>     . |   | 8 x <0x00>
>     . |   |  \--------------------- binman/section:pad-before
>     . | [ *
>     . | . | 16 -------------------- binman/section:skip-at-start
>     . | . | | u-boot {
>     . | . | | [ 0
>     . | . | | . | U_BOOT_DATA
>     . | . | | ] *
>     . | . | | }
>     . | . | *
>     . | ] *
>     . |   | 4 x <0x00>
>     . |   |  \--------------------- binman/section:pad-after
>     . |   *
>     . | }
>     ] *
>     }
>
> I'm still having trouble with this. In the old code:
>
> > base = self.pad_before + (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start
>          8               + 16                  - 16
> > pad = base - len(section_data) + (entry.pad_before or 0)
>         8    - 0                 +  0
> > if pad > 0:
>      8
> >     section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
>                                                      8
>
> So, why was it prepending 16 bytes? The only way I see is if u-boot
> entry.offset is 24, but that's explicitly checked to be 16 in the test.
>
> However, it's clear to me now that the fragment I sent wouldn't result
> in different padding between two versions, because there entry.offset =
> section.skip_at_start so the negative padding never happens.
>
> Then, what does an entry.offset < section.skip-at-start mean? That's
> what was missing for the actual thing I was trying to trigger:
>
>     section {
>         skip-at-start = <16>;
>
>         blob {
>             offset = <0>;
>             pad-before = <16>;
>             filename = "foo";
>         };
>     };
>
>
> == 180_section_pad.dts ==
>
>   binman {
>   [ 0
>   . | section@0 {
>   . |   0
>   . |   | 3 x <0x26> -------------- binman:pad-byte
>   . |   |  \----------------------- binman/section@0:pad-before
>   . | [ *
>   . | . | u-boot {
>   . | . |   0
>   . | . |   | 5 x <0x21> ---------- binman/section@0:pad-byte
>   . | . |   |  \------------------- binman/section@0/u-boot:pad-before
>   . | . | [ *
>   . | . | . | U_BOOT_DATA
>   . | . | ] *
>   . | . |   | 1 x <0x21> ---------- binman/section@0:pad-byte
>   . | . |   *  \------------------- binman/section@0/u-boot:pad-after
>   . | . | }
>   . | ] *
>   . |   | 2 x <0x26> -------------- binman:pad-byte
>   . |   |  \----------------------- binman/section@0:pad-after
>   . |   *
>   . | }
>   ] *
>   }
>
> It looks like paddings are part of the entry:
> - entry.offset and entry.image_pos point to pad-before padding
> - entry.size includes both paddings
> - pad-before, pad-after properties belong to the entry
> - entry's parent aligns the entry with respect to the padded-data
>
> But, also the opposite:
> - entry.data doesn't include padding bytes
> - it's entirely added by the entry's parent
> - pad-byte property belongs to the parent
>
> I have no idea which way things should go towards. I think padding could
> be completely handled by the entries themselves. Section's
> GetPaddedDataForEntry(entry, entry_data) could be moved to Entry as
> GetPaddedData(pad_byte), which the parent section would use while
> assembling itself. The pad_byte argument could be dropped by making the
> entries find it by traversing upwards in the tree starting from the
> entry itself (and not just checking the immediate parent).

I appreciate all your thinking on this!

I originally had it so len(entry.data) == entry.size (and also
entry.contents_size). But the problem is that for compressed data we
don't want to compress the padding. Say we have an entry of size 100
with only e0 bytes used (hex used througout):

0   ---
    <data>
e0  <empty>
100 ---

We can certainly add the extra 20 bytes onto the end of the entry
data, as was done previously. Let's now compress it. We want to
compress the actual contents of the entry, excluding any padding,
since the padding is for the entry, not its contents:

0   ---
    <compressed data>
80  <empty>
100 ---

Binman has always had the concept of Entry.contents_size separate from
Entry.size. But they have typically been the same. With compression,
that breaks down, since the Entry.data is the compressed data
(Entry.uncomp_data is the uncompressed) and Entry.contents_size is the
size of the compressed data. In fact the uncompressed data might not
even fit in the entry.

In this case it does not make sense to have the Entry pad its own
data, since then it would be compressing part of it with padding
around. In trying to think this through and actually implement it, I
came to the point where it is today.

>
>
> == 181_section_align.dts ==
>
>   binman {
>   [ 0
>   . | fill {
>   . | [ 0
>   . | . | <0x00>
>   . | ] 1 ------------------------- binman/fill:size
>   . | }
>   . *
>   . | <0x26> ---------------------- binman:pad-byte
>   . 2*n --------------------------- binman/section@1:align
>   . | section@1 {
>   . | [ 0
>   . | . | fill {
>   . | . | [ 0
>   . | . | . | <0x00>
>   . | . | ] 1 --------------------- binman/section@1/fill:size
>   . | . | }
>   . | . *
>   . | . | <0x21> ------------------ binman/section@1:pad-byte
>   . | . 4*n ----------------------- binman/section@1/u-boot:align
>   . | . | u-boot {
>   . | . | [ 0
>   . | . | . | U_BOOT_DATA
>   . | . | ] *
>   . | . |   | <0x21> -------------- binman/section@1:pad-byte
>   . | . |   8*n ------------------- binman/section@1/u-boot:size
>   . | . |    \----------------------binman/section@1/u-boot:align-size
>   . | . | }
>   . | ] *
>   . |   | <0x21> ------------------ binman/section@1:pad-byte
>   . |   0x10*n -------------------- binman/section@1:size
>   . |     \------------------------ binman/section@1:align-size
>   . | }
>   ] *
>   }
>
> The pad-byte values here surprise me a bit. I'd say they should be the
> parent's pad-byte, since I think this in-section alignment padding is
> the same kind of thing as the pad-before and pad-after, and those use
> the parent's. However, like what I said above, the latter two could
> instead be changed to use the entry's pad-byte like this one.

With the design decision above it makes sense for the parent to
provide the pad data, since it is doing the padding. Were it to come
from the Entry itself, then every entry would need to specify the
padding byte to use. But if you think about it at a high level, it is
the parent section that is providing the space for the Entries to be
packed into, so the parent section should provide the padding byte.
Again, I have tried it both ways...

This stuff is surprisingly complicated. It will be interesting to see
if it stands the test of time. One reason for all the tests is so the
behaviour is as fully defined as possible.

Regards,
Simon
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/section.py b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
index 9222042f5d8..d05adf00274 100644
--- a/tools/binman/etype/section.py
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
@@ -144,24 +144,47 @@  class Entry_section(Entry):
     def ObtainContents(self):
         return self.GetEntryContents()
 
-    def GetData(self):
+    def _BuildSectionData(self):
+        """Build the contents of a section
+
+        This places all entries at the right place, dealing with padding before
+        and after entries. It does not do padding for the section itself (the
+        pad-before and pad-after properties in the section items) since that is
+        handled by the parent section.
+
+        Returns:
+            Contents of the section (bytes)
+        """
         section_data = b''
 
         for entry in self._entries.values():
             data = entry.GetData()
-            base = self.pad_before + (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start
-            pad = base - len(section_data) + (entry.pad_before or 0)
+            # Handle empty space before the entry
+            pad = (entry.offset or 0) - self._skip_at_start - len(section_data)
             if pad > 0:
                 section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
+
+            # Handle padding before the entry
+            if entry.pad_before:
+                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_before)
+
+            # Add in the actual entry data
             section_data += data
+
+            # Handle padding after the entry
+            if entry.pad_after:
+                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, entry.pad_after)
+
         if self.size:
-            pad = self.size - len(section_data)
-            if pad > 0:
-                section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte, pad)
+            section_data += tools.GetBytes(self._pad_byte,
+                                           self.size - len(section_data))
         self.Detail('GetData: %d entries, total size %#x' %
                     (len(self._entries), len(section_data)))
         return self.CompressData(section_data)
 
+    def GetData(self):
+        return self._BuildSectionData()
+
     def GetOffsets(self):
         """Handle entries that want to set the offset/size of other entries
 
diff --git a/tools/binman/ftest.py b/tools/binman/ftest.py
index e265941a392..3c6eb7f6736 100644
--- a/tools/binman/ftest.py
+++ b/tools/binman/ftest.py
@@ -706,7 +706,8 @@  class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
         """Test a simple binman run with debugging enabled"""
         self._DoTestFile('005_simple.dts', debug=True)
 
-    def testDual(self):
+    # Disable for now until padding of images is supported
+    def xtestDual(self):
         """Test that we can handle creating two images
 
         This also tests image padding.