Re: [PATCH] kbuild: correct size calculation of bzImgae / fix x86 boot

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Sun Dec 20 2009 - 07:03:10 EST


Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> We use ... printf \x ... when calculating the size of the
>> compressed kernel.
>> Unfortunately dash built-in printf does not support this notation
>> resulting in a non-bootable kernel.
>>
>> Fix this by always using the external version of printf.

That changed the wrong printf. :-)

>> The commit that introduced this bug was:
>> 4a2ff67c88211026afcbdbc190c13f705dae1b59: "kbuild: fix bzImage
>> build for x86"
>
> It's not that simple Sam. This commit is a part of the game.
> It works neither with printf as after my commit above, nor with
> original fix with `/bin/echo -ne'. In neither case the fix is
> complete or robust. Because there are two places in the few lines,
> around this, both affected and both are non-POSIX-conformant.

Does dash's printf support %b? Then this should work.

Andreas.

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index cd815ac..340813d 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -213,14 +213,16 @@ cmd_gzip = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | gzip -f -9 > $@) || \

# Bzip2 and LZMA do not include size in file... so we have to fake that;
# append the size as a 32-bit littleendian number as gzip does.
-size_append = printf $(shell \
+size_append = printf %b $$( \
dec_size=0; \
for F in $1; do \
fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F); \
dec_size=$$(expr $$dec_size + $$fsize); \
done; \
-printf "%08x" $$dec_size | \
- sed 's/\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\\\\x\4\\\\x\3\\\\x\2\\\\x\1/g' \
+for i in 1 2 3 4; do \
+ printf '\\%04o' $$(expr $$dec_size % 256); \
+ dec_size=$$(expr $$dec_size / 256); \
+done \
)

quiet_cmd_bzip2 = BZIP2 $@

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