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Message-ID: <53F1B5A9.8060307@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:13:29 +0800
From: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
CC: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>, Max Eliaser <max.eliaser@...el.com>,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] ACPI: Add support for device specific properties
Hi,
Some minor comments below.
On 2014-8-17 14:04, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Device Tree is used in many embedded systems to describe the system
> configuration to the OS. It supports attaching properties or name-value
> pairs to the devices it describe. With these properties one can pass
> additional information to the drivers that would not be available
> otherwise.
>
> ACPI is another configuration mechanism (among other things) typically
> seen, but not limited to, x86 machines. ACPI allows passing arbitrary
> data from methods but there has not been mechanism equivalent to Device
> Tree until the introduction of _DSD in the recent publication of the
> ACPI 5.1 specification.
>
> In order to facilitate ACPI usage in systems where Device Tree is
> typically used, it would be beneficial to standardize a way to retrieve
> Device Tree style properties from ACPI devices, which is what we do in
> this patch.
>
> If a given device described in ACPI namespace wants to export properties it
> must implement _DSD method (Device Specific Data, introduced with ACPI 5.1)
> that returns the properties in a package of packages. For example:
>
> Name (_DSD, Package () {
> ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
> Package () {
> Package () {"name1", <VALUE1>},
> Package () {"name2", <VALUE2>},
> ...
> }
> })
>
> The UUID reserved for properties is daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301
> and is documented in the ACPI 5.1 companion document called "_DSD
> Implementation Guide" [1], [2].
>
> We add several helper functions that can be used to extract these
> properties and convert them to different Linux data types.
>
> The ultimate goal is that we only have one device property API that
> retrieves the requested properties from Device Tree or from ACPI
> transparent to the caller.
>
> [1] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-implementation-guide-toplevel.htm
> [2] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-UUID.pdf
>
> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/acpi/internal.h | 6 +
> drivers/acpi/property.c | 365 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 +
> include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 7 +
> include/linux/acpi.h | 40 ++++++
> 6 files changed, 421 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/property.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
> index ea55e0179f81..6e8269a111db 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ acpi-y += acpi_pnp.o
> acpi-y += power.o
> acpi-y += event.o
> acpi-y += sysfs.o
> +acpi-y += property.o
> acpi-$(CONFIG_X86) += acpi_cmos_rtc.o
> acpi-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) += debugfs.o
> acpi-$(CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA) += numa.o
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/internal.h b/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> index 7de5b603f272..35001e2a8769 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> @@ -178,4 +178,10 @@ struct platform_device *acpi_create_platform_device(struct acpi_device *adev);
> bool acpi_osi_is_win8(void);
> #endif
>
> +/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> + Device properties
> + -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
> +void acpi_init_properties(struct acpi_device *adev);
> +void acpi_free_properties(struct acpi_device *adev);
> +
> #endif /* _ACPI_INTERNAL_H_ */
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/property.c b/drivers/acpi/property.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..093e834c35db
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/property.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,365 @@
> +/*
> + * ACPI device specific properties support.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2014, Intel Corporation
> + * All rights reserved.
> + *
> + * Authors: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
> + * Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>
> + * Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/acpi.h>
> +#include <linux/device.h>
> +#include <linux/export.h>
> +
> +#include "internal.h"
> +
> +/* ACPI _DSD device properties UUID: daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301 */
> +static const u8 prp_uuid[16] = {
s/prp_uuid/dsd_uuid ?
> + 0x14, 0xd8, 0xff, 0xda, 0xba, 0x6e, 0x8c, 0x4d,
> + 0x8a, 0x91, 0xbc, 0x9b, 0xbf, 0x4a, 0xa3, 0x01
> +};
> +
> +static bool acpi_property_value_ok(const union acpi_object *value)
> +{
> + int j;
> +
> + /*
> + * The value must be an integer, a string, a reference, or a package
> + * whose every element must be an integer, a string, or a reference.
> + */
> + switch (value->type) {
> + case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
> + case ACPI_TYPE_STRING:
> + case ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_REFERENCE:
> + return true;
> +
> + case ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE:
> + for (j = 0; j < value->package.count; j++)
> + switch (value->package.elements[j].type) {
> + case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
> + case ACPI_TYPE_STRING:
> + case ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_REFERENCE:
> + continue;
> +
> + default:
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> + }
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> +static bool acpi_properties_format_valid(const union acpi_object *properties)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < properties->package.count; i++) {
> + const union acpi_object *property;
> +
> + property = &properties->package.elements[i];
> + /*
> + * Only two elements allowed, the first one must be a string and
> + * the second one has to satisfy certain conditions.
> + */
> + if (property->package.count != 2
> + || property->package.elements[0].type != ACPI_TYPE_STRING
> + || !acpi_property_value_ok(&property->package.elements[1]))
> + return false;
> + }
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +void acpi_init_properties(struct acpi_device *adev)
> +{
> +
I think the above line is not needed.
With that fixed,
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Thanks
Hanjun
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