the following patch was just integrated into master: commit aa1d314ac2febafc5243266b420ff57b280621c5 Author: Randall Spangler rspangler@chromium.org Date: Fri Aug 26 16:01:16 2016 -0700
vboot/vbnv_flash: Binary search to find last used entry
This improves the previous linear search to O(log n). No change in storage format.
BUG=chromium:640656 BRANCH=none TEST=Manual (test empty) flashrom -i RW_NVRAM -e Reboot; device should boot normally.
(start using records) crossystem kern_nv=0xaab0 crossystem recovery_request=1 && reboot Device should go into recovery mode with reason 1 Reboot again; it should boot normally. crossystem kern_nv (should still contain 0xaab0) Repeat steps several times with request=2, 3, etc.
flashrom -i RW_NVRAM -r nvdata Modify nvdata to copy the first record across all valid records flashrom -i RW_NVRAM -w nvdata Reboot; device should boot normally.
Change-Id: Ieb97563ab92bd1d18a4f6a9e1d20157efe311fb4 Signed-off-by: Martin Roth martinroth@chromium.org Original-Commit-Id: db9bb2d3927ad57270d7acfd42cf0652102993b1 Original-Change-Id: I1eb5fd9fa6b2ae56833f024bcd3c250147bcc7a1 Original-Signed-off-by: Randall Spangler rspangler@chromium.org Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/376928 Original-Reviewed-by: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/16577 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Vadim Bendebury vbendeb@chromium.org Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com
See https://review.coreboot.org/16577 for details.
-gerrit