Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [SPECIFICATION RFC] The firmware and bootloader log specification | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:14:44 -0800 |
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On 11/13/20 3:52 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hey, > > > Here is the description (pseudocode) of the structures which will be > used to store the log data. > > Anyway, I am aware that this is not specification per se.
Yes, you have caveats here. I'm sure that you either already know or would learn soon enough that struct struct bf_log has some padding added to it (for alignment) unless it is packed. Or you could rearrange the order of some of its fields and save 8 bytes per struct on x86_64.
> struct bf_log > { > uint32_t version; > char producer[64]; > uint64_t flags; > uint64_t next_bf_log_addr; > uint32_t next_msg_off; > bf_log_msg msgs[]; > } > > struct bf_log_msg > { > uint32_t size; > uint64_t ts_nsec; > uint32_t level; > uint32_t facility; > uint32_t msg_off; > char strings[]; > }
cheers. -- ~Randy
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