[PATCH v4 2/5] block: add partition parser for U-Boot uImage.FIT
Daniel Golle
daniel at makrotopia.org
Wed Nov 9 17:52:43 PST 2022
On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 05:21:01PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 02:36:11PM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:58:29PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > ... actually, why can't you call read_part_sector() and avoid all of
> > > this?
> >
> > I've tried that before and the problem is that read_part_sector()
> > returns a pointer to one sector (typically 512 bytes) of data.
> > And this pointer should not be accesses beyond sector boundaries,
> > right? You'd have to call read_part_sector() again for the next
> > sector.
> >
> > The FIT structure, however, usually exceeds the size of one sector,
> > and having a continous memory area covering the structure as a whole
> > is crucial for libfdt to do its job.
> >
> > I could, of course, use read_part_sector() to copy all sectors
> > covering the FIT structure into a buffer, but that seemed strange
> > given that read_part_sector() actually used read_mapping_page()
> > (and now uses read_mapping_folio()) internally and then returns a
> > pointer to the offset within the page/folio. So why not read it in one
> > piece in first place instead of having it first split up to sectors
> > by read_part_sector() just to then having to reassemble it into a
> > continous buffer again.
>
> Are you guaranteed that it's "sufficiently" aligned on storage so
> that it fits entirely within a single page? If not, you'll have
> to copy it, vmap it, or fix libfdt to handle a segmented buffer.
Yes, for the uImage.FIT to be usable for the partition parser it has
to be page-aligned.
There is a check which makes sure that this is the case:
> + /* uImage.FIT should be aligned to page boundaries */
> + if (fit_start_sector % (1 << (PAGE_SHIFT - SECTOR_SHIFT)))
> + return 0;
In case of mtdblock or ubiblock devices, the image always starts at
offset 0, so this is never a problem.
In case of the image being stored in a GPT partition, one has to make
sure that the start sector of the partition is page aligned, otherwise
the above check will fail and the partition parser will bail out.
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