Thanks for reraising this. If you need me to rebase or help in anyway let me know.

On 5/9/2023 1:41 PM, Gudla, Raghava wrote:
My patch is based on Michael's fix. I took his change to do a PoC a while back 
and totally forgot that his patch is still available. We can proceed to merge 
Michael's patch.

Thanks,
Raghava

-----Original Message-----
From: Oram, Isaac W <isaac.w.o...@intel.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:35 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io; mikub...@linux.microsoft.com; Kinney, Michael D 
<michael.d.kin...@intel.com>; Chiu, Chasel <chasel.c...@intel.com>; Gudla, Raghava 
<raghava.gu...@intel.com>
Cc: Desimone, Nathaniel L <nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>; Kubacki, Michael 
<michael.kuba...@microsoft.com>; Chaganty, Rangasai V <rangasai.v.chaga...@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms:PATCH V1] 
MinPlatformPkg/SaveMemoryConfig: Support NVS Data compression.

Rereading that thread and this request, other opinions, etc, I am convinced 
that the simpler interface and board responsibility is the correct short/medium 
term answer.  I don't have an opinion on Mike Kinney's question on encapsulated 
services.  I generally like that design, though I am sensitive to Michael 
Kubacki's feedback that variable services are too complex as it is.  I guess it 
probably depends a lot on the specifics of the proposal.  That said, it is 
pretty easy to migrate from a board specific solution to a more base layer 
solution in the future, so adopting this now doesn't seem harmful to me.

Raghava, can you look at Michael's fix?  It looks nearly identical to yours and 
general convention is to accept the earlier one in case of collision I believe. 
 I like his PCD naming a little better, but both are fine to me.

Regards,
Isaac

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Michael Kubacki
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 8:26 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>; Chiu, Chasel 
<chasel.c...@intel.com>; Oram, Isaac W <isaac.w.o...@intel.com>; Gudla, Raghava 
<raghava.gu...@intel.com>
Cc: Desimone, Nathaniel L <nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>; Kubacki, Michael 
<michael.kuba...@microsoft.com>; Chaganty, Rangasai V <rangasai.v.chaga...@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms:PATCH V1] 
MinPlatformPkg/SaveMemoryConfig: Support NVS Data compression.

At the surface, this looks similar to the following patch I sent a while
back:

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/92644

That triggered a thread where we had a similar discussion about 
LargeVariableLib responsibilities, etc.

We still have a fork of SaveMemoryConfig that uses the PCD I sent in the
patch:

https://github.com/microsoft/mu_common_intel_min_platform/blob/release/202208/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMemoryConfig.inf

I believe a challenge that led to adding compression (in our fork code) to 
SaveMemoryConfig was the fact that the data was produced in pre-mem PEI and 
compression is expensive in CAR.

In general though, I still believe that it is simpler to separate data mutation 
from service APIs. Platforms can manipulate data to achieve their goals whether 
size, security, and so on and the service APIs provide a simple interface to 
store and retrieve that data blob.

I'd also like to see FSP reduce in size and eliminate operations that are not 
essential to its role and can be consolidated/reused in the wrapper.

Thanks,
Michael

On 5/8/2023 5:48 PM, Michael D Kinney wrote:
When reviewing the Variable feature that adds integrity and
confidentiality, I suggested that the interface between the Variable
services and the NVStorage could provide an abstraction to
encode/decode the stored data that would support encryption,
compression, or both.  Could also support a platform policy for which variables 
the encode/decode operation is applied.

Wouldn't that be a better abstraction than piecemeal adding these
features?

Doesn't mean that this can't go in as-is.  But would be an opportunity
to consolidate in the future.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chiu,
Chasel
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2023 12:37 PM
To: Oram, Isaac W <isaac.w.o...@intel.com>; Gudla, Raghava
<raghava.gu...@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Desimone, Nathaniel L <nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>; Kubacki,
Michael <michael.kuba...@microsoft.com>; Chaganty, Rangasai V
<rangasai.v.chaga...@intel.com>; Chiu, Chasel <chasel.c...@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms:PATCH V1]
MinPlatformPkg/SaveMemoryConfig: Support NVS Data compression.


Hi Isaac,

Just my thoughts, I would vote for platform/bootloader to decide
compressing the variable data before saving to NVRAM or not.
It should be optional and when platform having big SPI flash they
might not want to do this.

Thanks,
Chasel


-----Original Message-----
From: Oram, Isaac W <isaac.w.o...@intel.com>
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2023 12:15 PM
To: Gudla, Raghava <raghava.gu...@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Chiu, Chasel <chasel.c...@intel.com>; Desimone, Nathaniel L
<nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>; Kubacki, Michael
<michael.kuba...@microsoft.com>; Chaganty, Rangasai V
<rangasai.v.chaga...@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [edk2-platforms:PATCH V1] MinPlatformPkg/SaveMemoryConfig:
Support NVS Data compression.

The proposed implementation is fine and I will reviewed-by and push
if that
is
the desired direction.

My question is if we generally like the design of doing compression
in
common
MinPlatform code, decompression in board specific FSP wrapper code.
The alternative design is to do compression and decompression inside the FSP.
This
seems like a slightly simpler separation of responsibilities.
The board code is responsible for save/restore, the FSP code is
responsible
for
data blob creation and use.  Data integrity, authentication,
compression, etc
all
can be done based on more detailed knowledge of the silicon
implementation
requirements.

I can see another argument though that doing it inside FSP
effectively forces both bootloader and FSP to carry
compression/decompression.  The compression/decompression aren't
likely to need to be silicon specific.  And bootloader may have more
requirements to balance than just the silicon requirements.

Can I get some votes on preferred answer for
compressing/decompressing
FSP
non-volatile data in bootloader or FSP?

Thanks,
Isaac

-----Original Message-----
From: Gudla, Raghava <raghava.gu...@intel.com>
Sent: Friday, May 5, 2023 5:03 PM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Gudla, Raghava <raghava.gu...@intel.com>; Chiu, Chasel
<chasel.c...@intel.com>; Desimone, Nathaniel L
<nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>; Oram, Isaac W
<isaac.w.o...@intel.com>
Subject: [edk2-platforms:PATCH V1] MinPlatformPkg/SaveMemoryConfig:
Support NVS Data compression.

Around 50KB "FspNonVolatileStorageHob" data can be compressed to
approximately 3 KB which can save NVRAM space and enhance life of
the SPI part by decreasing the number of reclaim cycles needed.

This patch added support to compress "FspNonVolatileStorageHob" data
before
saving to NVRAM.

A PcdEnableCompressFspNvsHob is introduced to enable/disable this
feature per
platform usage.

Cc: Chasel Chiu <chasel.c...@intel.com>
Cc: Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desim...@intel.com>
Cc: Isaac Oram <isaac.w.o...@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Raghava Gudla <raghava.gu...@intel.com>
---
   .../SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMemoryConfig.c       | 34 +++++++++++++++++++
   .../SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMemoryConfig.inf     |  6 +++-
   .../Include/Dsc/CoreCommonLib.dsc             |  1 +
   .../Intel/MinPlatformPkg/MinPlatformPkg.dec   |  5 +++
   4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git

a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMemo
r
yConfig.c

b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMem
or
yConfig.c
index 0215e8eed..8aa935b54 100644
---

a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMemo
r
yConfig.c
+++

b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMem
o
+++ ryConfig.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent
   #include <Library/LargeVariableWriteLib.h> #include
<Library/VariableWriteLib.h> #include
<Guid/FspNonVolatileStorageHob2.h>+#include <Library/PcdLib.h>+#include
<Library/CompressLib.h>  /**   This is the standard EFI driver point that
detects
whether there is a@@ -45,6 +47,9 @@ SaveMemoryConfigEntryPoint (
     UINTN             DataSize;   UINTN             BufferSize;   BOOLEAN
DataIsIdentical;+  VOID              *CompressedData;+  UINT64
CompressedSize;+  UINTN             CompressedAllocationPages;    DataSize
= 0;
BufferSize      = 0;@@ -73,6 +78,35 @@ SaveMemoryConfigEntryPoint (
       }   } +  if (PcdGetBool (PcdEnableCompressFspNvsHob) == 1) {+
CompressedData            = NULL;+    CompressedSize            = 0;+
CompressedAllocationPages = 0;++    DEBUG ((DEBUG_INFO, "compressing
mem
config nvs variable\n"));+    if (DataSize > 0) {+
CompressedAllocationPages =
EFI_SIZE_TO_PAGES (DataSize);+      CompressedData = AllocatePages
(CompressedAllocationPages);+      if (CompressedData == NULL) {+
DEBUG
((DEBUG_ERROR, "[%a] - Failed to allocate compressed data buffer.\n",
__func__));+        ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES);+        return
EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;+      }++      CompressedSize = EFI_PAGES_TO_SIZE
(CompressedAllocationPages);+      Status = Compress (HobData, DataSize,
CompressedData, &CompressedSize);+      if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {+
DEBUG
((DEBUG_ERROR, "[%a] - failed to compress data. Status = %r\n", __func__,
Status));+        ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status);+
FreePool(CompressedData);+
return Status;+      } else {+        HobData  = CompressedData;+        
DataSize
=
(UINTN) CompressedSize;+      }+    }+  }+   if (HobData != NULL) {     DEBUG
((DEBUG_INFO, "FspNvsHob.NvsDataLength:%d\n", DataSize));     DEBUG
((DEBUG_INFO, "FspNvsHob.NvsDataPtr   : 0x%x\n", HobData));diff --git

a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMemo
r
yConfig.inf

b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMem
or
yConfig.inf
index 61e85a658..77920d031 100644
---

a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMemo
r
yConfig.inf
+++

b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/FspWrapper/SaveMemoryConfig/SaveMem
o
+++ ryConfig.inf
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     LargeVariableReadLib   LargeVariableWriteLib   BaseLib+  CompressLib
[Packages]   MdePkg/MdePkg.dec@@ -45,6 +46,9 @@
     gFspNonVolatileStorageHob2Guid                ## CONSUMES
gFspNvsBufferVariableGuid                     ## PRODUCES +[Pcd]+
gMinPlatformPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEnableCompressFspNvsHob+ [Depex]
gEfiVariableArchProtocolGuid        AND-  gEfiVariableWriteArchProtocolGuid
\ No newline at end of file
+  gEfiVariableWriteArchProtocolGuiddiff --git
+ a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/Include/Dsc/CoreCommonLib.dsc
+ b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/Include/Dsc/CoreCommonLib.dsc
index 5ce21cf31..dfe7d836d 100644
--- a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/Include/Dsc/CoreCommonLib.dsc
+++ b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/Include/Dsc/CoreCommonLib.dsc
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@


BmpSupportLib|MdeModulePkg/Library/BaseBmpSupportLib/BaseBmpSuppor
tLi
b.inf

LargeVariableReadLib|MinPlatformPkg/Library/BaseLargeVariableLib/Base
LargeVariableReadLib|Larg
eVariableReadLib.inf

LargeVariableWriteLib|MinPlatformPkg/Library/BaseLargeVariableLib/Bas
LargeVariableWriteLib|eLarg
eVariableWriteLib.inf+
CompressLib|MinPlatformPkg/Library/CompressLib/CompressLib.inf    #   #
CryptLibdiff --git
a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/MinPlatformPkg.dec
b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/MinPlatformPkg.dec
index 784abb828..e21d55fb3 100644
--- a/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/MinPlatformPkg.dec
+++ b/Platform/Intel/MinPlatformPkg/MinPlatformPkg.dec
@@ -348,6 +348,11 @@


gMinPlatformPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdFadtFlags|0x000086A5|UINT32|0x90000
027

gMinPlatformPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdFadtMajorVersion|0x06|UINT8|0x90000
0
30

gMinPlatformPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdFadtMinorVersion|0x03|UINT8|0x90000
0
31+## Controls whether the Memory Config UEFI Variable is saved as
compressed data.+# Data compression can significantly reduce
variable
storage
usage for FSP NVS buffer data.+# Platforms that choose to compress
the
data
will need to decompress the variable data upon+# extraction.+

gMinPlatformPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEnableCompressFspNvsHob|FALSE|BOO
L
EAN|0x90000032  [PcdsFixedAtBuild] --
2.19.1.windows.1

















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