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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>of: unittest: overlay: ensure proper alignment of copied FDT</title>
<updated>2021-04-08T21:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T20:45:08+00:00</published>
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The Devicetree standard specifies an 8 byte alignment of the FDT.
Code in libfdt expects this alignment for an FDT image in memory.
kmemdup() returns 4 byte alignment on openrisc.  Replace kmemdup()
with kmalloc(), align pointer, memcpy() to get proper alignment.

The 4 byte alignment exposed a related bug which triggered a crash
on openrisc with:
commit 79edff12060f ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
as reported in:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@roeck-us.net/

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408204508.2276230-1-frowand.list@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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The Devicetree standard specifies an 8 byte alignment of the FDT.
Code in libfdt expects this alignment for an FDT image in memory.
kmemdup() returns 4 byte alignment on openrisc.  Replace kmemdup()
with kmalloc(), align pointer, memcpy() to get proper alignment.

The 4 byte alignment exposed a related bug which triggered a crash
on openrisc with:
commit 79edff12060f ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
as reported in:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@roeck-us.net/

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408204508.2276230-1-frowand.list@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: introduce DMA range map, supplanting dma_pfn_offset</title>
<updated>2020-09-17T16:43:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Quinlan</name>
<email>james.quinlan@broadcom.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-17T16:43:40+00:00</published>
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The new field 'dma_range_map' in struct device is used to facilitate the
use of single or multiple offsets between mapping regions of cpu addrs and
dma addrs.  It subsumes the role of "dev-&gt;dma_pfn_offset" which was only
capable of holding a single uniform offset and had no region bounds
checking.

The function of_dma_get_range() has been modified so that it takes a single
argument -- the device node -- and returns a map, NULL, or an error code.
The map is an array that holds the information regarding the DMA regions.
Each range entry contains the address offset, the cpu_start address, the
dma_start address, and the size of the region.

of_dma_configure() is the typical manner to set range offsets but there are
a number of ad hoc assignments to "dev-&gt;dma_pfn_offset" in the kernel
driver code.  These cases now invoke the function
dma_direct_set_offset(dev, cpu_addr, dma_addr, size).

Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan &lt;james.quinlan@broadcom.com&gt;
[hch: various interface cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
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The new field 'dma_range_map' in struct device is used to facilitate the
use of single or multiple offsets between mapping regions of cpu addrs and
dma addrs.  It subsumes the role of "dev-&gt;dma_pfn_offset" which was only
capable of holding a single uniform offset and had no region bounds
checking.

The function of_dma_get_range() has been modified so that it takes a single
argument -- the device node -- and returns a map, NULL, or an error code.
The map is an array that holds the information regarding the DMA regions.
Each range entry contains the address offset, the cpu_start address, the
dma_start address, and the size of the region.

of_dma_configure() is the typical manner to set range offsets but there are
a number of ad hoc assignments to "dev-&gt;dma_pfn_offset" in the kernel
driver code.  These cases now invoke the function
dma_direct_set_offset(dev, cpu_addr, dma_addr, size).

Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan &lt;james.quinlan@broadcom.com&gt;
[hch: various interface cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: of_private.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-03-31T15:03:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-19T23:10:58+00:00</published>
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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: Rework and simplify phandle cache to use a fixed size</title>
<updated>2019-12-24T21:17:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-06T22:27:41+00:00</published>
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The phandle cache was added to speed up of_find_node_by_phandle() by
avoiding walking the whole DT to find a matching phandle. The
implementation has several shortcomings:

  - The cache is designed to work on a linear set of phandle values.
    This is true for dtc generated DTs, but not for other cases such as
    Power.
  - The cache isn't enabled until of_core_init() and a typical system
    may see hundreds of calls to of_find_node_by_phandle() before that
    point.
  - The cache is freed and re-allocated when the number of phandles
    changes.
  - It takes a raw spinlock around a memory allocation which breaks on
    RT.

Change the implementation to a fixed size and use hash_32() as the
cache index. This greatly simplifies the implementation. It avoids
the need for any re-alloc of the cache and taking a reference on nodes
in the cache. We only have a single source of removing cache entries
which is of_detach_node().

Using hash_32() removes any assumption on phandle values improving
the hit rate for non-linear phandle values. The effect on linear values
using hash_32() is about a 10% collision. The chances of thrashing on
colliding values seems to be low.

To compare performance, I used a RK3399 board which is a pretty typical
system. I found that just measuring boot time as done previously is
noisy and may be impacted by other things. Also bringing up secondary
cores causes some issues with measuring, so I booted with 'nr_cpus=1'.
With no caching, calls to of_find_node_by_phandle() take about 20124 us
for 1248 calls. There's an additional 288 calls before time keeping is
up. Using the average time per hit/miss with the cache, we can calculate
these calls to take 690 us (277 hit / 11 miss) with a 128 entry cache
and 13319 us with no cache or an uninitialized cache.

Comparing the 3 implementations the time spent in
of_find_node_by_phandle() is:

no cache:        20124 us (+ 13319 us)
128 entry cache:  5134 us (+ 690 us)
current cache:     819 us (+ 13319 us)

We could move the allocation of the cache earlier to improve the
current cache, but that just further complicates the situation as it
needs to be after slab is up, so we can't do it when unflattening (which
uses memblock).

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Segher Boessenkool &lt;segher@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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The phandle cache was added to speed up of_find_node_by_phandle() by
avoiding walking the whole DT to find a matching phandle. The
implementation has several shortcomings:

  - The cache is designed to work on a linear set of phandle values.
    This is true for dtc generated DTs, but not for other cases such as
    Power.
  - The cache isn't enabled until of_core_init() and a typical system
    may see hundreds of calls to of_find_node_by_phandle() before that
    point.
  - The cache is freed and re-allocated when the number of phandles
    changes.
  - It takes a raw spinlock around a memory allocation which breaks on
    RT.

Change the implementation to a fixed size and use hash_32() as the
cache index. This greatly simplifies the implementation. It avoids
the need for any re-alloc of the cache and taking a reference on nodes
in the cache. We only have a single source of removing cache entries
which is of_detach_node().

Using hash_32() removes any assumption on phandle values improving
the hit rate for non-linear phandle values. The effect on linear values
using hash_32() is about a 10% collision. The chances of thrashing on
colliding values seems to be low.

To compare performance, I used a RK3399 board which is a pretty typical
system. I found that just measuring boot time as done previously is
noisy and may be impacted by other things. Also bringing up secondary
cores causes some issues with measuring, so I booted with 'nr_cpus=1'.
With no caching, calls to of_find_node_by_phandle() take about 20124 us
for 1248 calls. There's an additional 288 calls before time keeping is
up. Using the average time per hit/miss with the cache, we can calculate
these calls to take 690 us (277 hit / 11 miss) with a 128 entry cache
and 13319 us with no cache or an uninitialized cache.

Comparing the 3 implementations the time spent in
of_find_node_by_phandle() is:

no cache:        20124 us (+ 13319 us)
128 entry cache:  5134 us (+ 690 us)
current cache:     819 us (+ 13319 us)

We could move the allocation of the cache earlier to improve the
current cache, but that just further complicates the situation as it
needs to be after slab is up, so we can't do it when unflattening (which
uses memblock).

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Segher Boessenkool &lt;segher@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>of: Factor out #{addr,size}-cells parsing</title>
<updated>2019-10-08T18:50:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robin Murphy</name>
<email>robin.murphy@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-02T17:42:39+00:00</published>
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In some cases such as PCI host controllers, we may have a "parent bus"
which is an OF leaf node, but still need to correctly parse ranges from
the point of view of that bus. For that, factor out variants of the
"#addr-cells" and "#size-cells" parsers which do not assume they have a
device node and thus immediately traverse upwards before reading the
relevant property.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
[robh: don't make of_bus_n_{addr,size}_cells() public]
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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In some cases such as PCI host controllers, we may have a "parent bus"
which is an OF leaf node, but still need to correctly parse ranges from
the point of view of that bus. For that, factor out variants of the
"#addr-cells" and "#size-cells" parsers which do not assume they have a
device node and thus immediately traverse upwards before reading the
relevant property.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
[robh: don't make of_bus_n_{addr,size}_cells() public]
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: Make of_dma_get_range() private</title>
<updated>2019-10-08T18:50:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-05T10:53:27+00:00</published>
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of_dma_get_range() is only used within the DT core code, so remove the
export and move the header declaration to the private header.

Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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of_dma_get_range() is only used within the DT core code, so remove the
export and move the header declaration to the private header.

Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzjulienne@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>of: __of_detach_node() - remove node from phandle cache</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T18:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T19:40:03+00:00</published>
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Non-overlay dynamic devicetree node removal may leave the node in
the phandle cache.  Subsequent calls to of_find_node_by_phandle()
will incorrectly find the stale entry.  Remove the node from the
cache.

Add paranoia checks in of_find_node_by_phandle() as a second level
of defense (do not return cached node if detached, do not add node
to cache if detached).

Fixes: 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()")
Reported-by: Michael Bringmann &lt;mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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Non-overlay dynamic devicetree node removal may leave the node in
the phandle cache.  Subsequent calls to of_find_node_by_phandle()
will incorrectly find the stale entry.  Remove the node from the
cache.

Add paranoia checks in of_find_node_by_phandle() as a second level
of defense (do not return cached node if detached, do not add node
to cache if detached).

Fixes: 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()")
Reported-by: Michael Bringmann &lt;mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: make default address and size cells sizes private</title>
<updated>2018-09-07T16:04:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-29T22:21:45+00:00</published>
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Only some old OpenFirmware implementations rely on default sizes. Any
FDT and modern implementation should have explicit properties. Make the
OF_ROOT_NODE_*_CELLS_DEFAULT defines private so we don't get any outside
users.

This also gets us one step closer to removing the asm/prom.h dependency on
Sparc.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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Only some old OpenFirmware implementations rely on default sizes. Any
FDT and modern implementation should have explicit properties. Make the
OF_ROOT_NODE_*_CELLS_DEFAULT defines private so we don't get any outside
users.

This also gets us one step closer to removing the asm/prom.h dependency on
Sparc.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: overlay: update phandle cache on overlay apply and remove</title>
<updated>2018-07-16T14:41:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-12T21:00:07+00:00</published>
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A comment in the review of the patch adding the phandle cache said that
the cache would have to be updated when modules are applied and removed.
This patch implements the cache updates.

Fixes: 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()")
Reported-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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A comment in the review of the patch adding the phandle cache said that
the cache would have to be updated when modules are applied and removed.
This patch implements the cache updates.

Fixes: 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()")
Reported-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()</title>
<updated>2018-03-07T20:50:09+00:00</updated>
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<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
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<published>2018-03-05T00:14:47+00:00</published>
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Create a cache of the nodes that contain a phandle property.  Use this
cache to find the node for a given phandle value instead of scanning
the devicetree to find the node.  If the phandle value is not found
in the cache, of_find_node_by_phandle() will fall back to the tree
scan algorithm.

The cache is initialized in of_core_init().

The cache is freed via a late_initcall_sync() if modules are not
enabled.

If the devicetree is created by the dtc compiler, with all phandle
property values auto generated, then the size required by the cache
could be 4 * (1 + number of phandles) bytes.  This results in an O(1)
node lookup cost for a given phandle value.  Due to a concern that the
phandle property values might not be consistent with what is generated
by the dtc compiler, a mask has been added to the cache lookup algorithm.
To maintain the O(1) node lookup cost, the size of the cache has been
increased by rounding the number of entries up to the next power of
two.

The overhead of finding the devicetree node containing a given phandle
value has been noted by several people in the recent past, in some cases
with a patch to add a hashed index of devicetree nodes, based on the
phandle value of the node.  One concern with this approach is the extra
space added to each node.  This patch takes advantage of the phandle
property values auto generated by the dtc compiler, which begin with
one and monotonically increase by one, resulting in a range of 1..n
for n phandle values.  This implementation should also provide a good
reduction of overhead for any range of phandle values that are mostly
in a monotonic range.

Performance measurements by Chintan Pandya &lt;cpandya@codeaurora.org&gt;
of several implementations of patches that are similar to this one
suggest an expected reduction of boot time by ~400ms for his test
system.  If the cache size was decreased to 64 entries, the boot
time was reduced by ~340 ms.  The measurements were on a 4.9.73 kernel
for arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sda670-mtp.dts, contains 2371 nodes and
814 phandle values.

Reported-by: Chintan Pandya &lt;cpandya@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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Create a cache of the nodes that contain a phandle property.  Use this
cache to find the node for a given phandle value instead of scanning
the devicetree to find the node.  If the phandle value is not found
in the cache, of_find_node_by_phandle() will fall back to the tree
scan algorithm.

The cache is initialized in of_core_init().

The cache is freed via a late_initcall_sync() if modules are not
enabled.

If the devicetree is created by the dtc compiler, with all phandle
property values auto generated, then the size required by the cache
could be 4 * (1 + number of phandles) bytes.  This results in an O(1)
node lookup cost for a given phandle value.  Due to a concern that the
phandle property values might not be consistent with what is generated
by the dtc compiler, a mask has been added to the cache lookup algorithm.
To maintain the O(1) node lookup cost, the size of the cache has been
increased by rounding the number of entries up to the next power of
two.

The overhead of finding the devicetree node containing a given phandle
value has been noted by several people in the recent past, in some cases
with a patch to add a hashed index of devicetree nodes, based on the
phandle value of the node.  One concern with this approach is the extra
space added to each node.  This patch takes advantage of the phandle
property values auto generated by the dtc compiler, which begin with
one and monotonically increase by one, resulting in a range of 1..n
for n phandle values.  This implementation should also provide a good
reduction of overhead for any range of phandle values that are mostly
in a monotonic range.

Performance measurements by Chintan Pandya &lt;cpandya@codeaurora.org&gt;
of several implementations of patches that are similar to this one
suggest an expected reduction of boot time by ~400ms for his test
system.  If the cache size was decreased to 64 entries, the boot
time was reduced by ~340 ms.  The measurements were on a 4.9.73 kernel
for arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sda670-mtp.dts, contains 2371 nodes and
814 phandle values.

Reported-by: Chintan Pandya &lt;cpandya@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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