In its current form, Region.PadBuffer() fills every second byte with 0x20,
the default separator string of Python's string.join():
https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.join
This corrupts some firmware because (a) 0x20 never corresponds to any
ErasePolarity, (b) the PadData produced are actually longer than Size.
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Fixes: bd907fb638
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
(cherry picked from commit a78b518b6e)
The current implementation calls both pack() and Buffer.write() Size
times. The new implementation calls both of these methods only once; the
full data to write are constructed locally [1]. The range() function is
replaced by xrange() because the latter is supposed to be faster / lighter
weight [2].
On my laptop, I tested the change as follows: I pre-built the series at
[3] with
build -a X64 -p OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc -t GCC48 -b DEBUG \
-D HTTP_BOOT_ENABLE -D SECURE_BOOT_ENABLE
(The series at [3] is relevant because it increases the size of one of the
padded regions by 8.5 MB, slowing down the build quite a bit.)
With all source code already compiled, repeating the above command takes
approximately 45 seconds. With the patch applied, it goes down to 29
seconds.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27384093/fastest-way-to-write-huge-data-in-file
[2] https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html?highlight=xrange#xrange
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/14214
We can also measure the impact with a synthetic test:
> import timeit
>
> test_old = """
> import struct, string, StringIO
> Size = (8 * 1024 + 512) * 1024
> Buffer = StringIO.StringIO()
> PadData = 0xFF
> for i in range(0, Size):
> Buffer.write(struct.pack('B', PadData))
> """
>
> test_new = """
> import struct, string, StringIO
> Size = (8 * 1024 + 512) * 1024
> Buffer = StringIO.StringIO()
> PadByte = struct.pack('B', 0xFF)
> PadData = string.join(PadByte for i in xrange(0, Size))
> Buffer.write(PadData)
> """
>
> print(timeit.repeat(stmt=test_old, number=1, repeat=3))
> print(timeit.repeat(stmt=test_new, number=1, repeat=3))
The output is
[8.231637001037598, 8.81188416481018, 8.948754072189331]
[0.5503702163696289, 0.5461571216583252, 0.578315019607544]
Cc: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit bd907fb638)
The same logic is used in five places; factor it out to a common method.
Cc: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5588565f48)
FD region today can be file or data, but not a patched image.Add support
for an INF statement in an FD region, so the binary from the INF can be
patched prior to being added to the FD region.
(Sync patch r19136 from main trunk.)
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2015@19372 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
