Android Q: Dynamic Partitions

Talk by Google’s David Anderson at Linux Plumber’s Conf, see LPC Schedule for more, video at YouTube.
PDF: Dynamic Partitions.


Update: See Dynamic Partitions: Take Two.


Buildvars:

PRODUCT_USE_DYNAMIC_PARTITIONS
PRODUCT_USE_DYNAMIC_PARTITION_SIZE
PRODUCT_RETROFIT_DYNAMIC_PARTITIONS
PRODUCT_BUILD_SUPER_PARTITION

Need to unset BOARD_BUILD_SYSTEM_ROOT_IMAGE, TARGET_NO_RECOVERY is unaffected.

AOSP build/make: Unset system-as-root for mainline:

-BOARD_BUILD_SYSTEM_ROOT_IMAGE := true

This flag is not allowed to be true when dynamic partitions are enabled, which mainline devices are expected to do.


Of course, this stuff is hopelessly broken for legacy devices. An attempt to get it to work:

build/make:

diff --git a/tools/releasetools/build_super_image.py b/tools/releasetools/build_super_image.py
index f63453d8e..b13b906d0 100755
--- a/tools/releasetools/build_super_image.py
+++ b/tools/releasetools/build_super_image.py
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ def BuildSuperImage(inp, out):
 
   if isinstance(inp, str):
     if os.path.isdir(inp):
+      if os.path.isdir(out):
+        logger.info("out is a dir: %s, setting to super_empty" % str(out))
+        out = "%s/super_empty.img" % out
       logger.info("Building super image from extracted target files...")
       return BuildSuperImageFromExtractedTargetFiles(inp, out)

system/core:

index a0ccc10f7..6b2436e59 100644
--- a/fs_mgr/libfiemap_writer/split_fiemap_writer.cpp
+++ b/fs_mgr/libfiemap_writer/split_fiemap_writer.cpp
@@ -95,7 +95,22 @@ std::unique_ptr<SplitFiemap> SplitFiemap::Create(const std::string& file_path, u
         // To make sure the alignment doesn't create too much inconsistency, we
         // account the *actual* size, not the requested size.
         total_bytes_written += writer->size();
-        remaining_bytes -= writer->size();
+        LOG(WARNING) << "SplitFiemap:Create() remaining_bytes = "
+                     << remaining_bytes<< ", writer->size() = "
+                     << writer -> size();
+        // 09-29 23:54:24.512  2523  2525 W gsid: SplitFiemap:Create()
+        //      remaining_bytes = 1589934592, writer->size() = 1589936128
+        // 1589934592 − 1589936128 = −1536
+        if (remaining_bytes < writer->size()) {
+            LOG(WARNING) << "SplitFiemap:Create() remaining_bytes"
+                         << "< writer->size, setting remaining_bytes to 0";
+            remaining_bytes = 0;
+        } else {
+            remaining_bytes -= writer->size();
+            LOG(WARNING) << "SplitFiemap:Create()"
+                         << " remaining_bytes, minus writer->size = "
+                         << remaining_bytes;
+        }
 
         out->AddFile(std::move(writer));
     }

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