Thread (43 messages) 43 messages, 8 authors, 2016-02-11

Re: [PATCH 14/14] x86/efi: Print size in binary units in efi_print_memmap

From: Laszlo Ersek <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-02 09:23:09
Also in: lkml

I'll take being CC'd as "please offer an opinion", so I'll offer one. :)

On 02/01/16 23:07, Matt Fleming wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: Robert Elliott <redacted>

Print the size in the best-fit B, KiB, MiB, etc. units rather than
always MiB. This avoids rounding, which can be misleading.

Use proper IEC binary units (KiB, MiB, etc.) rather than misuse SI
decimal units (KB, MB, etc.).

old:
    efi: mem61: [Persistent Memory  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000880000000-0x0000000c7fffffff) (16384MB)

new:
    efi: mem61: [Persistent Memory  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000880000000-0x0000000c7fffffff] (16 GiB)

Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
Cc: Taku Izumi <redacted>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index e80826e6f3a9..2c457c5e8203 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/efi-bgrt.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
@@ -117,6 +118,17 @@ void efi_get_time(struct timespec *now)
 	now->tv_nsec = 0;
 }
 
+static char * __init efi_size_format(char *buf, size_t size, u64 bytes)
+{
+	static const char *const units_2[] = {
+		"B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB", "EiB"
+	};
Blech. Blech blech blech. As far as I'm concerned, "IEC binary units"
rewrite history. I propose to just say "KB" & friends.

Not sure if I should refer kernel list subscribers to GNU utility
manuals :), but "dd" gets it right:

       N  and  BYTES  may  be followed by the following multiplicative
       suffixes: c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000,
       M  =1024*1024, xM =M GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and
       so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.

Anyway, feel free to ignore this.
+	unsigned long i = bytes ? __ffs64(bytes) / 10 : 0;
+
+	snprintf(buf, size, "%llu %s", bytes >> (i * 10), units_2[i]);
+	return buf;
+}
The calculation seems correct, and I agree "bytes" should have type
"u64" -- this makes it clearer why we don't have to climb higher than
offset 6 (count 7) in "units".

However, since we're printing the result of the right shift with the
%llu conversion specifier, I believe I'd appreciate either an explicit
((unsigned long long)bytes) >> ... cast there, or a macro for the
conversion specifier. (In userland I'd write "%"PRIu64, but I don't know
if the kernel has anything like that.)
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+
 void __init efi_find_mirror(void)
 {
 	void *p;
@@ -225,21 +237,20 @@ int __init efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range(void)
 void __init efi_print_memmap(void)
 {
 #ifdef EFI_DEBUG
-	efi_memory_desc_t *md;
 	void *p;
 	int i;
 
 	for (p = memmap.map, i = 0;
 	     p < memmap.map_end;
 	     p += memmap.desc_size, i++) {
-		char buf[64];
+		efi_memory_desc_t *md = p;
+		u64 size = md->num_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+		char buf[64], buf2[64];
 
-		md = p;
-		pr_info("mem%02u: %s range=[0x%016llx-0x%016llx] (%lluMB)\n",
+		pr_info("mem%02u: %s range=[0x%016llx-0x%016llx] (%s)\n",
 			i, efi_md_typeattr_format(buf, sizeof(buf), md),
-			md->phys_addr,
-			md->phys_addr + (md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT) - 1,
-			(md->num_pages >> (20 - EFI_PAGE_SHIFT)));
+			md->phys_addr, md->phys_addr + size - 1,
+			efi_size_format(buf2, sizeof(buf2), size));
 	}
 #endif  /*  EFI_DEBUG  */
 }
Hm, apparently %llx is used to print u64 here as well. Did I write this
code? :) Is %ll used interchangeably with 64-bits?

Also, I notice there's room for unification with ia64 code. In
"arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c", the efi_init() function open-codes a similar
suffix conversion -- notice it says KB and friends! :)

So maybe the efi_size_format() helper could go into
"drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c", near its friend efi_md_typeattr_format().

Furthermore, the ia64 source has a macro efi_md_size(). Perhaps it can
be moved to a common header and used here as well. Not too important.

... Ultimately, my only semi-important point here is that
efi_size_format() should go into common EFI driver code, and be
(optionally) used on ia64 as well.

Thanks
Laszlo
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