bootconfig: Increase max nodes of bootconfig from 1024 to 8192 for DCC support

[PATCH V1] bootconfig: Increase max nodes of bootconfig from 1024 to 8192 for DCC support

Posted by Souradeep Chowdhury 3 years ago

The Data Capture and Compare(DCC) is a debugging tool that uses the bootconfig
for configuring the register values during boot-time. Increase the max nodes
supported by bootconfig to cater to the requirements of the Data Capture and
Compare Driver.

Signed-off-by: Souradeep Chowdhury <quic_schowdhu@quicinc.com>
---
 include/linux/bootconfig.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bootconfig.h b/include/linux/bootconfig.h
index 1611f9d..ca73940 100644
--- a/include/linux/bootconfig.h
+++ b/include/linux/bootconfig.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct xbc_node {
 /* Maximum size of boot config is 32KB - 1 */
 #define XBC_DATA_MAX	(XBC_VALUE - 1)

-#define XBC_NODE_MAX	1024
+#define XBC_NODE_MAX	8192
 #define XBC_KEYLEN_MAX	256
 #define XBC_DEPTH_MAX	16

--
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH V1] bootconfig: Increase max nodes of bootconfig from 1024 to 8192 for DCC support

Posted by Heinz Wiesinger 2 years, 11 months ago

Hi everyone,

It looks like this broke the bootconfig tests (tools/bootconfig/test-
bootconfig.sh), tested on 6.1.18:

Max node number check
test case 12 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-HCfT.bconf ./initrd-NGHv)...
Apply ./temp-HCfT.bconf to ./initrd-NGHv
        Number of nodes: 1024
        Size: 8110 bytes
        Checksum: 599485
\t\t[OK]
test case 13 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-HCfT.bconf ./initrd-NGHv)...
Apply ./temp-HCfT.bconf to ./initrd-NGHv
        Number of nodes: 1025
        Size: 8118 bytes
        Checksum: 600212
\t\t[NG]

When I adjust the max node number for the tests to 8192, test case 13 passes, 
but test case 12 then fails:

Max node number check
test case 12 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-qZHF.bconf ./initrd-0v99)...
Error: Config data is too big.
\t\t[NG]
test case 13 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-qZHF.bconf ./initrd-0v99)...
Error: Config data is too big.
\t\t[OK]

Grs,
Heinz

Re: [PATCH V1] bootconfig: Increase max nodes of bootconfig from 1024 to 8192 for DCC support

Posted by Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 2 years, 11 months ago

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:49:44 +0100
Heinz Wiesinger <pprkut@slackware.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,

Oops, thanks for pointing it out. I have to run the test in the test environment...


> 
> It looks like this broke the bootconfig tests (tools/bootconfig/test-
> bootconfig.sh), tested on 6.1.18:
> 
> Max node number check
> test case 12 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-HCfT.bconf ./initrd-NGHv)...
> Apply ./temp-HCfT.bconf to ./initrd-NGHv
>         Number of nodes: 1024
>         Size: 8110 bytes
>         Checksum: 599485
> \t\t[OK]
> test case 13 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-HCfT.bconf ./initrd-NGHv)...
> Apply ./temp-HCfT.bconf to ./initrd-NGHv
>         Number of nodes: 1025
>         Size: 8118 bytes
>         Checksum: 600212
> \t\t[NG]

Yes, it needs to test with 8192 and 8193 nodes. Those are
boundary checker.

Thanks!

> 
> When I adjust the max node number for the tests to 8192, test case 13 passes, 
> but test case 12 then fails:
> 
> Max node number check
> test case 12 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-qZHF.bconf ./initrd-0v99)...
> Error: Config data is too big.
> \t\t[NG]
> test case 13 (./bootconfig -a ./temp-qZHF.bconf ./initrd-0v99)...
> Error: Config data is too big.
> \t\t[OK]

Ah, it hits the size limitation. :D

Each node consumes "node%d\n" = 6-11 bytes, and 11 bytes*8k = 88k bytes > 32K bytes.
So, for making 8k nodes (including delimiter), we need to use 3 random alphabets for
node name. (26^3 = 17576)

Let me fix that and thanks for report!



> 
> Grs,
> Heinz


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Re: [PATCH V1] bootconfig: Increase max nodes of bootconfig from 1024 to 8192 for DCC support

Posted by Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 3 years ago

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:34:42 +0530
Souradeep Chowdhury <quic_schowdhu@quicinc.com> wrote:

> The Data Capture and Compare(DCC) is a debugging tool that uses the bootconfig
> for configuring the register values during boot-time. Increase the max nodes
> supported by bootconfig to cater to the requirements of the Data Capture and
> Compare Driver.

Thanks, this looks good to me :)

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Souradeep Chowdhury <quic_schowdhu@quicinc.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/bootconfig.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/bootconfig.h b/include/linux/bootconfig.h
> index 1611f9d..ca73940 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bootconfig.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bootconfig.h
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct xbc_node {
>  /* Maximum size of boot config is 32KB - 1 */
>  #define XBC_DATA_MAX	(XBC_VALUE - 1)
> 
> -#define XBC_NODE_MAX	1024
> +#define XBC_NODE_MAX	8192
>  #define XBC_KEYLEN_MAX	256
>  #define XBC_DEPTH_MAX	16
> 
> --
> 2.7.4
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>