From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxx>
On i.MX, which carries a lot of pin-groups of which most are unused on
individual boards, they noticed that this plethora of nodes also results
in the runtime-lookup-performance also degrading [0].
A i.MX-specific solution defining the pingroups in the board files but
using macros to reference the pingroup-data was not well received.
This patch is trying to solve this issue in a more general way, by
adding the ability to mark nodes as needing to be referenced somewhere
in the tree.
To mark a node a needing to be referenced it must be prefixed with
/delete-unreferenced/. This makes dtc check the nodes reference-status
when creating the flattened tree, dropping it if unreferenced.
For example, the i.MX6SL pingroup
/delete-unreferenced/ pinctrl_ecspi1_1: ecspi1grp-1 {
fsl,pins = <
MX6SL_PAD_ECSPI1_MISO__ECSPI1_MISO 0x100b1
MX6SL_PAD_ECSPI1_MOSI__ECSPI1_MOSI 0x100b1
MX6SL_PAD_ECSPI1_SCLK__ECSPI1_SCLK 0x100b1
>;
};
would only be included in the dtb if it got referenced somewhere
as pingroup via
node {
pinctrl-0 <&pinctrl_ecscpi1_1>;
};
[0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/275912/
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxx>
---
A sample implementation using the in-tree dtc in the linux kernel can
be found at [1] and the very first rfc at [2].
[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/62357
[2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/60145
checks.c | 2 ++
dtc-lexer.l | 7 +++++++
dtc-parser.y | 5 +++++
dtc.h | 4 ++++
flattree.c | 3 +++
livetree.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
diff --git a/checks.c b/checks.c
index 47eda65..a82ba8d 100644
--- a/checks.c
+++ b/checks.c
@@ -472,6 +472,8 @@ static void fixup_phandle_references(struct check *c, struct node *dt,
phandle = get_node_phandle(dt, refnode);
*((cell_t *)(prop->val.val + m->offset)) = cpu_to_fdt32(phandle);
+
+ reference_node(refnode);
}
}
ERROR(phandle_references, NULL, NULL, fixup_phandle_references, NULL,
diff --git a/dtc-lexer.l b/dtc-lexer.l
index 0821bde..6d7865d 100644
--- a/dtc-lexer.l
+++ b/dtc-lexer.l
@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ static void lexical_error(const char *fmt, ...);
return DT_DEL_NODE;
}
+<*>"/delete-unreferenced/" {
+ DPRINT("Keyword: /delete-unreferenced/\n");
+ DPRINT("<PROPNODENAME>\n");
+ BEGIN(PROPNODENAME);
+ return DT_DEL_UNREFERENCED;
+ }
+
<*>{LABEL}: {
DPRINT("Label: %s\n", yytext);
yylval.labelref = xstrdup(yytext);
diff --git a/dtc-parser.y b/dtc-parser.y
index ea57e0a..a203bed 100644
--- a/dtc-parser.y
+++ b/dtc-parser.y
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern bool treesource_error;
%token DT_BITS
%token DT_DEL_PROP
%token DT_DEL_NODE
+%token DT_DEL_UNREFERENCED
%token <propnodename> DT_PROPNODENAME
%token <integer> DT_LITERAL
%token <integer> DT_CHAR_LITERAL
@@ -450,6 +451,10 @@ subnode:
{
$$ = name_node(build_node_delete(), $2);
}
+ | DT_DEL_UNREFERENCED subnode
+ {
+ $$ = check_node_referenced($2);
+ }
| DT_LABEL subnode
{
add_label(&$2->labels, $1);
diff --git a/dtc.h b/dtc.h
index 20de073..ff45059 100644
--- a/dtc.h
+++ b/dtc.h
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ struct node {
int addr_cells, size_cells;
struct label *labels;
+
+ int needs_reference, is_referenced;
};
#define for_each_label_withdel(l0, l) \
@@ -192,6 +194,8 @@ struct property *reverse_properties(struct property *first);
struct node *build_node(struct property *proplist, struct node *children);
struct node *build_node_delete(void);
struct node *name_node(struct node *node, char *name);
+struct node *check_node_referenced(struct node *node);
+struct node *reference_node(struct node *node);
struct node *chain_node(struct node *first, struct node *list);
struct node *merge_nodes(struct node *old_node, struct node *new_node);
diff --git a/flattree.c b/flattree.c
index bd99fa2..105e8fa 100644
--- a/flattree.c
+++ b/flattree.c
@@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ static void flatten_tree(struct node *tree, struct emitter *emit,
if (tree->deleted)
return;
+ if (tree->needs_reference && !tree->is_referenced)
+ return;
+
emit->beginnode(etarget, tree->labels);
if (vi->flags & FTF_FULLPATH)
diff --git a/livetree.c b/livetree.c
index b61465f..98bb33d 100644
--- a/livetree.c
+++ b/livetree.c
@@ -134,6 +134,20 @@ struct node *name_node(struct node *node, char *name)
return node;
}
+struct node *check_node_referenced(struct node *node)
+{
+ node->needs_reference = 1;
+
+ return node;
+}
+
+struct node *reference_node(struct node *node)
+{
+ node->is_referenced = 1;
+
+ return node;
+}
+
struct node *merge_nodes(struct node *old_node, struct node *new_node)
{
struct property *new_prop, *old_prop;
--
1.9.0
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