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Message-ID: <1284eceb-cb00-29ea-cfec-8dbe810bba6f@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:32:34 -0800
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Chintan Pandya <cpandya@...eaurora.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: add early boot allocation of
 of_find_node_by_phandle() cache

On 02/16/18 01:07, Chintan Pandya wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/15/2018 6:14 AM, frowand.list@...il.com wrote:
>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
>>
>> The initial implementation of the of_find_node_by_phandle() cache
>> allocates the cache using kcalloc().  Add an early boot allocation
>> of the cache so it will be usable during early boot.  Switch over
>> to the kcalloc() based cache once normal memory allocation
>> becomes available.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
>> ---
>>
>> This patch is optional, to be added at Rob's discretion.  The
>> extra complexity is not as much as I had feared, but the boot
>> speed up is also likely small.
>>
>>   drivers/of/base.c       | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/of/fdt.c        |  2 ++
>>   drivers/of/of_private.h |  2 ++
>>   3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
>> index ab545dfa9173..d7b1ff1209e8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/of/base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
>> @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@
>>     #define pr_fmt(fmt)    "OF: " fmt
>>   +#include <linux/bootmem.h>
>>   #include <linux/console.h>
>>   #include <linux/ctype.h>
>>   #include <linux/cpu.h>
>> +#include <linux/memblock.h>
>>   #include <linux/module.h>
>>   #include <linux/of.h>
>>   #include <linux/of_device.h>
>> @@ -131,6 +133,29 @@ static void of_populate_phandle_cache(void)
>>       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devtree_lock, flags);
>>   }
>>   +void __init of_populate_phandle_cache_early(void)
>> +{
>> +    u32 cache_entries;
>> +    struct device_node *np;
>> +    u32 phandles = 0;
>> +    size_t size;
>> +
>> +    for_each_of_allnodes(np)
>> +        if (np->phandle && np->phandle != OF_PHANDLE_ILLEGAL)
>> +            phandles++;
>> +
>> +    cache_entries = roundup_pow_of_two(phandles);
>> +    phandle_cache_mask = cache_entries - 1;
>> +
>> +    size = cache_entries * sizeof(*phandle_cache);
>> +    phandle_cache = memblock_virt_alloc(size, 4);
>> +    memset(phandle_cache, 0, size);
>> +
>> +    for_each_of_allnodes(np)
>> +        if (np->phandle && np->phandle != OF_PHANDLE_ILLEGAL)
>> +            phandle_cache[np->phandle & phandle_cache_mask] = np;
>> +}
> 
> There is a lot of code duplication in this function with
> of_populate_phandle_cache. Would you think of taking out
> common code or differ the function with extra bool parameter
> to say 'early' or 'not early'.

Good observation, and normally yes.  My first implementation of this
feature actually did what you suggest.

It turns out to be a bit more complicated than one might expect
because some of the code is marked __init.  That results in
passing the memory allocation function as a parameter to
of_populate_phandle_cache().  See __unflatten_device_tree() for
an example of what this entails.  Then the parts of
of_populate_cache() that need to be encapsulated in a 'if (!early)'
test are scattered throughout the function, so the test becomes
rather intrusive in terms of code readability.

In the end, the method I chose results in cleaner code for
of_populate_phandle_cache(), plus the memory used by
of_populate_cache_early() gets reclaimed after boot, since
it is marked __init.  Both functions are relatively small and
the code common to both is unlikely to be modified, so I do
not see this causing a maintenance burden.

-Frank

>> +
>>   #ifndef CONFIG_MODULES
>>   static int __init of_free_phandle_cache(void)
>>   {
>> @@ -150,7 +175,15 @@ static int __init of_free_phandle_cache(void)
>>     void __init of_core_init(void)
>>   {
>> +    unsigned long flags;
>>       struct device_node *np;
>> +    phys_addr_t size;
>> +
>> +    raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&devtree_lock, flags);
>> +    size = (phandle_cache_mask + 1) * sizeof(*phandle_cache);
>> +    memblock_free(__pa(phandle_cache), size);
>> +    phandle_cache = NULL;
>> +    raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devtree_lock, flags);
>>         of_populate_phandle_cache();
>>   diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
>> index 84aa9d676375..cb320df23f26 100644
>> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
>> @@ -1264,6 +1264,8 @@ void __init unflatten_device_tree(void)
>>       of_alias_scan(early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch);
>>         unittest_unflatten_overlay_base();
>> +
>> +    of_populate_phandle_cache_early();
>>   }
>>     /**
>> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_private.h b/drivers/of/of_private.h
>> index fa70650136b4..6720448c84cc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/of/of_private.h
>> +++ b/drivers/of/of_private.h
>> @@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ extern void __of_sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct device_node *np,
>>   /* illegal phandle value (set when unresolved) */
>>   #define OF_PHANDLE_ILLEGAL    0xdeadbeef
>>   +extern void __init of_populate_phandle_cache_early(void);
>> +
>>   /* iterators for transactions, used for overlays */
>>   /* forward iterator */
>>   #define for_each_transaction_entry(_oft, _te) \
>>
> 
> Chintan