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

Paul Gortmaker paul.gortmaker at windriver.com
Thu Feb 20 09:44:26 EST 2014


On 14-02-19 05:40 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:23:02 -0500, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Great, thanks for the testing. Can I add a Tested-by line for you?

Absolutely; sorry for not thinking to explicitly indicate that.

P.
--

> 
> g.
> 
>>
>> 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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