[SLOF] [PATCH slof v3 5/5] fdt: Pass the resulting device tree to QEMU

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 03/10/17 19:48, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Tue,  3 Oct 2017 16:15:23 +1100
> Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> wrote:
> 
>> This creates flatten device tree and passes it to QEMU via a custom
>> hypercall right before jumping to RTAS.
>>
>> On a machine with 256 CPUs and 256 virtual Intel E1000 devices the blob
>> is 360KB (356KB structs and 20KB of strings), building such a tree takes
>> ~2s on a POWER8 box. A simple tree with 1 CPU and a couple of devices
>> takes 38ms and creates 16KB blob.
>>
>> This preloads strings with 40 property names from CPU and PCI device nodes
>> and the strings lookup only searches within these. Without string reusing
>> at all, the strings blob is 200KB and rendering time is 1.7sec; with
>> unlimited reusing, the strings blob is 4KB and rendering time is 2.8sec.
>>
>> While we are here, fix the version handling in fdt-init. It only matters
>> a little for the fdt-debug==1 case though.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes:
>> v3:
>> * fixed stack handling after hcall returned
>> * fixed format versions in both rendering and parsing paths
>> * rebased on top of removed unused hvcalls
>> * renamed used variables to have fdtfl- prefixes as there are already
>> some for parsing the initial dt
>>
> 
> Yeah and this was confusing CAS because ibm,client-architecture-support
> uses fdt-struct, but wasn't accessing the right one... it took me some
> time to understand what was happening :-\
> 
> Maybe we should have word in fdt.fs to avoid using fdt-struct in some
> other file ?

This would not help - these variables are global.


-- 
Alexey