[coreboot] New patch to review for coreboot: 687d812 Fix cbmem to work on 64 bit platforms

Stefan Reinauer (stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org) gerrit at coreboot.org
Tue Nov 6 23:52:05 CET 2012


Stefan Reinauer (stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/1715

-gerrit

commit 687d81236cdc0ad908f90ef41e7d4fc76e4edddc
Author: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb at chromium.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 29 15:03:09 2012 -0700

    Fix cbmem to work on 64 bit platforms
    
    For some reason which I fail to understand, specifying endiannes using
    '@' (which means 'native' and should be the same as '<' on x86
    platforms) causes cbmem.py to crash the machine on 64 bit systems.
    
    What happens is that the addresses read from various table headers'
    struct representations do not make sense, when bogus address gets
    passed to get_phys_mem, the crash happens while that function is
    executed.
    
    dlaurie@ found out that replacing "@" with "<" in fact fixes the
    issue. After some investigation I am just submitting this fix without
    much understanding of the root cause.
    
    Change-Id: Iaba9bc72a3f6b1d0407a5f1e3b459ccf5063969d
    Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie at chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb at chromium.org>
---
 util/cbmem/cbmem.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/util/cbmem/cbmem.py b/util/cbmem/cbmem.py
index f4f3e88..839393b 100755
--- a/util/cbmem/cbmem.py
+++ b/util/cbmem/cbmem.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def get_phys_mem(addr, size):
 class MetaCStruct(type):
     def __init__(cls, name, bases, dct):
         struct_members = dct["struct_members"]
-        cls.struct_fmt = "@"
+        cls.struct_fmt = "<"
         for char, name in struct_members:
             cls.struct_fmt += char
         cls.struct_len = struct.calcsize(cls.struct_fmt)




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