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

Paul Gortmaker paul.gortmaker at windriver.com
Thu Feb 20 08:23:02 EST 2014


On 14-02-19 03:41 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> 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

That seems to work.

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

...

root at sbc8548:~# cat /proc/version 
Linux version 3.14.0-rc3-00024-g7119f42057c6 (paul at yow-lpgnfs-02) (gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC) ) #1 Wed Feb 19 16:08:17 EST 2014
root at sbc8548:~#

Paul.
--

> 
> 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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