[PATCH] of: give priority to the compatible match in __of_match_node()

Grant Likely grant.likely at linaro.org
Thu Feb 20 07:41:34 EST 2014


On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:25:54 -0500, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Kevin Hao <haokexin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> When the device node do have a compatible property, we definitely
> >> prefer the compatible match besides the type and name. Only if
> >> there is no such a match, we then consider the candidate which
> >> doesn't have compatible entry but do match the type or name with
> >> the device node.
> >>
> >> This is based on a patch from Sebastian Hesselbarth.
> >>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/319434/
> >>
> >> I did some code refactoring and also fixed a bug in the original patch.
> >
> > I'm inclined to just revert this once again and avoid possibly
> > breaking yet another platform.
> 
> Well, for what it is worth, today's (Feb19th) linux-next tree fails to boot
> on my sbc8548.   It fails with:

I think I've got it fixed now with the latest series. Please try the
devicetree/merge branch on git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux

g.

> -----------------------------------------------
> libphy: Freescale PowerQUICC MII Bus: probed
> mdio_bus ethernet at e002400: /soc8548 at e0000000/ethernet at 24000/mdio at 520
> PHY address 1312 is too large
> libphy: Freescale PowerQUICC MII Bus: probed
> libphy: Freescale PowerQUICC MII Bus: probed
> mdio_bus ethernet at e002500: /soc8548 at e0000000/ethernet at 25000/mdio at 520
> PHY address 1312 is too large
> libphy: Freescale PowerQUICC MII Bus: probed
> TCP: cubic registered
> Initializing XFRM netlink socket
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> <fail nfs mount>
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> On a normal boot, we should see this:
> -----------------------------------------------
> libphy: Freescale PowerQUICC MII Bus: probed
> libphy: Freescale PowerQUICC MII Bus: probed
> fsl-gianfar e0024000.ethernet: enabled errata workarounds, flags: 0x4
> fsl-gianfar e0024000.ethernet eth0: mac: 02:e0:0c:00:05:fd
> fsl-gianfar e0024000.ethernet eth0: Running with NAPI enabled
> fsl-gianfar e0024000.ethernet eth0: RX BD ring size for Q[0]: 256
> fsl-gianfar e0024000.ethernet eth0: TX BD ring size for Q[0]: 256
> fsl-gianfar e0025000.ethernet: enabled errata workarounds, flags: 0x4
> fsl-gianfar e0025000.ethernet eth1: mac: 02:e0:0c:00:06:fd
> fsl-gianfar e0025000.ethernet eth1: Running with NAPI enabled
> fsl-gianfar e0025000.ethernet eth1: RX BD ring size for Q[0]: 256
> fsl-gianfar e0025000.ethernet eth1: TX BD ring size for Q[0]: 256
> TCP: cubic registered
> Initializing XFRM netlink socket
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Git bisect says:
> 
> ee8b26ad943aa34acc03ae6cde2b81d8d3d483d4 is the first bad commit
> commit ee8b26ad943aa34acc03ae6cde2b81d8d3d483d4
> Author: Kevin Hao <haokexin at gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Feb 18 15:57:30 2014 +0800
> 
>     of: reimplement the matching method for __of_match_node()
> 
>     In the current implementation of __of_match_node(), it will compare
>     each given match entry against all the node's compatible strings
>     with of_device_is_compatible().
> 
>     To achieve multiple compatible strings per node with ordering from
>     specific to generic, this requires given matches to be ordered from
>     specific to generic. For most of the drivers this is not true and
>     also an alphabetical ordering is more sane there.
> 
>     Therefore, we define a following priority order for the match, and
>     then scan all the entries to find the best match.
>       1. specific compatible && type && name
>       2. specific compatible && type
>       3. specific compatible && name
>       4. specific compatible
>       5. general compatible && type && name
>       6. general compatible && type
>       7. general compatible && name
>       8. general compatible
>       9. type && name
>       10. type
>       11. name
> 
>     This is based on some pseudo-codes provided by Grant Likely.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin at gmail.com>
>     [grant.likely: Changed multiplier to 4 which makes more sense]
>     Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> 
> :040000 040000 8f5dd19174417aece63b308ff299a5dbe2efa5a0
> 8401b0e3903e23e973845ee75b26b04345d803d2 M      drivers
> 
> As a double check, I checked out the head of linux-next, and did a
> revert of the above commit, and my sbc8548 can then boot properly.
> 
> Not doing anything fancy ; using the defconfig exactly as-is, and
> ensuring the dtb is fresh from linux-next HEAD of today.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul.
> --
> 
> >
> > However, I think I would like to see this structured differently. We
> > basically have 2 ways of matching: the existing pre-3.14 way and the
> > desired match on best compatible only. All new bindings should match
> > with the new way and the old way needs to be kept for compatibility.
> > So lets structure the code that way. Search the match table first for
> > best compatible with name and type NULL, then search the table the old
> > way. I realize it appears you are doing this, but it is not clear this
> > is the intent of the code. I would like to see this written as a patch
> > with commit 105353145eafb3ea919 reverted first and you add a new match
> > function to call first and then fallback to the existing function.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >>
> >> Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/of/base.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
> >> index ff85450d5683..9d655df458bd 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/of/base.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
> >> @@ -730,32 +730,45 @@ out:
> >>  }
> >>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_node_with_property);
> >>
> >> +static int of_match_type_or_name(const struct device_node *node,
> >> +                               const struct of_device_id *m)
> >> +{
> >> +       int match = 1;
> >> +
> >> +       if (m->name[0])
> >> +               match &= node->name && !strcmp(m->name, node->name);
> >> +
> >> +       if (m->type[0])
> >> +               match &= node->type && !strcmp(m->type, node->type);
> >> +
> >> +       return match;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >>  static
> >>  const struct of_device_id *__of_match_node(const struct of_device_id *matches,
> >>                                            const struct device_node *node)
> >>  {
> >>         const char *cp;
> >>         int cplen, l;
> >> +       const struct of_device_id *m;
> >> +       int match;
> >>
> >>         if (!matches)
> >>                 return NULL;
> >>
> >>         cp = __of_get_property(node, "compatible", &cplen);
> >> -       do {
> >> -               const struct of_device_id *m = matches;
> >> +       while (cp && (cplen > 0)) {
> >> +               m = matches;
> >>
> >>                 /* Check against matches with current compatible string */
> >>                 while (m->name[0] || m->type[0] || m->compatible[0]) {
> >> -                       int match = 1;
> >> -                       if (m->name[0])
> >> -                               match &= node->name
> >> -                                       && !strcmp(m->name, node->name);
> >> -                       if (m->type[0])
> >> -                               match &= node->type
> >> -                                       && !strcmp(m->type, node->type);
> >> -                       if (m->compatible[0])
> >> -                               match &= cp
> >> -                                       && !of_compat_cmp(m->compatible, cp,
> >> +                       if (!m->compatible[0]) {
> >> +                               m++;
> >> +                               continue;
> >> +                       }
> >> +
> >> +                       match = of_match_type_or_name(node, m);
> >> +                       match &= cp && !of_compat_cmp(m->compatible, cp,
> >>                                                         strlen(m->compatible));
> >>                         if (match)
> >>                                 return m;
> >> @@ -763,12 +776,18 @@ const struct of_device_id *__of_match_node(const struct of_device_id *matches,
> >>                 }
> >>
> >>                 /* Get node's next compatible string */
> >> -               if (cp) {
> >> -                       l = strlen(cp) + 1;
> >> -                       cp += l;
> >> -                       cplen -= l;
> >> -               }
> >> -       } while (cp && (cplen > 0));
> >> +               l = strlen(cp) + 1;
> >> +               cp += l;
> >> +               cplen -= l;
> >> +       }
> >> +
> >> +       m = matches;
> >> +       /* Check against matches without compatible string */
> >> +       while (m->name[0] || m->type[0] || m->compatible[0]) {
> >> +               if (!m->compatible[0] && of_match_type_or_name(node, m))
> >> +                       return m;
> >> +               m++;
> >> +       }
> >>
> >>         return NULL;
> >>  }
> >> --
> >> 1.8.5.3
> >>
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