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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>of: overlay: unittest: Add test for unresolved symbol</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T01:04:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-28T08:50:35+00:00</published>
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Add a test to exercise the error paths when trying to apply an overlay
with an unresolved symbol and cleaning up the resulting partial state.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/580394587976975770c84411896fce9fbbcf25fa.1690533838.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a test to exercise the error paths when trying to apply an overlay
with an unresolved symbol and cleaning up the resulting partial state.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/580394587976975770c84411896fce9fbbcf25fa.1690533838.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>of: unittest: Add pci_dt_testdrv pci driver</title>
<updated>2023-08-22T19:56:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lizhi Hou</name>
<email>lizhi.hou@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-15T17:20:00+00:00</published>
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pci_dt_testdrv is bound to QEMU PCI Test Device. It reads
overlay_pci_node fdt fragment and apply it to Test Device. Then it
calls of_platform_default_populate() to populate the platform
devices.

Tested-by: Herve Codina &lt;herve.codina@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou &lt;lizhi.hou@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1692120000-46900-6-git-send-email-lizhi.hou@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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pci_dt_testdrv is bound to QEMU PCI Test Device. It reads
overlay_pci_node fdt fragment and apply it to Test Device. Then it
calls of_platform_default_populate() to populate the platform
devices.

Tested-by: Herve Codina &lt;herve.codina@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou &lt;lizhi.hou@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1692120000-46900-6-git-send-email-lizhi.hou@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: overlay: rename overlay source files from .dts to .dtso</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T14:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-24T17:34:30+00:00</published>
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In drivers/of/unittest-data/:
   - Rename .dts overlay source files to use .dtso suffix.

Modify driver/of/unitest.c to use .dtbo.o based symbols instead of .dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis &lt;afd@ti.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221024173434.32518-4-afd@ti.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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In drivers/of/unittest-data/:
   - Rename .dts overlay source files to use .dtso suffix.

Modify driver/of/unitest.c to use .dtbo.o based symbols instead of .dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis &lt;afd@ti.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221024173434.32518-4-afd@ti.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: overlay: unittest: add tests for overlay notifiers</title>
<updated>2022-05-03T16:53:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-02T18:17:41+00:00</published>
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Add tests for overlay apply and remove notifiers.  Trigger errors
for each of the notifier actions.

These tests will reveal a memory leak problem when a notifier returns
an error for action OF_OVERLAY_POST_APPLY.  The pr_err() message is:

   OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 3,
   of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry: attach
   overlay node /testcase-data/overlay-node/test-bus/test-unittest17

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220502181742.1402826-3-frowand.list@gmail.com
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Add tests for overlay apply and remove notifiers.  Trigger errors
for each of the notifier actions.

These tests will reveal a memory leak problem when a notifier returns
an error for action OF_OVERLAY_POST_APPLY.  The pr_err() message is:

   OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 3,
   of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry: attach
   overlay node /testcase-data/overlay-node/test-bus/test-unittest17

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220502181742.1402826-3-frowand.list@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of/unittest: Disable new dtc node_name_vs_property_name and interrupt_map warnings</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T01:33:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T22:45:59+00:00</published>
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The unittest dtbs have various intentional errors which cause warnings.
With the latest dtc sync to v1.6.1-19-g0a3a9d3449c8, we need to disable
some new checks: node_name_vs_property_name and interrupt_map warnings.
These warnings are also generated for static_base_1.dtb, so add
DTC_FLAGS for it.

Note that the interrupt_map warnings only appear once interrupt_provider
warning is re-enabled globally.

drivers/of/unittest-data/tests-interrupts.dtsi:32.26-35.6: Warning (interrupt_map): /testcase-data/interrupts/intmap1: Missing '#address-cells' in interrupt-map provider

Fixes: c12632bfb611 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.1-19-g0a3a9d3449c8")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028130423.4025578-1-robh@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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The unittest dtbs have various intentional errors which cause warnings.
With the latest dtc sync to v1.6.1-19-g0a3a9d3449c8, we need to disable
some new checks: node_name_vs_property_name and interrupt_map warnings.
These warnings are also generated for static_base_1.dtb, so add
DTC_FLAGS for it.

Note that the interrupt_map warnings only appear once interrupt_provider
warning is re-enabled globally.

drivers/of/unittest-data/tests-interrupts.dtsi:32.26-35.6: Warning (interrupt_map): /testcase-data/interrupts/intmap1: Missing '#address-cells' in interrupt-map provider

Fixes: c12632bfb611 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.1-19-g0a3a9d3449c8")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028130423.4025578-1-robh@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: unittest: Statically apply overlays using fdtoverlay</title>
<updated>2021-03-23T21:27:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-10T05:35:33+00:00</published>
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Now that fdtoverlay is part of the kernel build, start using it to test
the unitest overlays we have by applying them statically. Create two new
base files static_base_1.dts and static_base_2.dts which includes other
.dtsi files.

Some unittest overlays deliberately contain errors that unittest checks
for. These overlays will cause fdtoverlay to fail, and are thus not
included for static builds.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/da6b4e6429aae2e7832a8be2ba2da473d449895b.1615354376.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
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Now that fdtoverlay is part of the kernel build, start using it to test
the unitest overlays we have by applying them statically. Create two new
base files static_base_1.dts and static_base_2.dts which includes other
.dtsi files.

Some unittest overlays deliberately contain errors that unittest checks
for. These overlays will cause fdtoverlay to fail, and are thus not
included for static builds.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/da6b4e6429aae2e7832a8be2ba2da473d449895b.1615354376.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: unittest: add overlay gpio test to catch gpio hog problem</title>
<updated>2020-02-26T16:42:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-20T18:40:20+00:00</published>
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Geert reports that gpio hog nodes are not properly processed when
the gpio hog node is added via an overlay reply and provides an
RFC patch to fix the problem [1].

Add a unittest that shows the problem.  Unittest will report "1 failed"
test before applying Geert's RFC patch and "0 failed" after applying
Geert's RFC patch.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/20191230133852.5890-1-geert+renesas@glider.be/

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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Geert reports that gpio hog nodes are not properly processed when
the gpio hog node is added via an overlay reply and provides an
RFC patch to fix the problem [1].

Add a unittest that shows the problem.  Unittest will report "1 failed"
test before applying Geert's RFC patch and "0 failed" after applying
Geert's RFC patch.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/20191230133852.5890-1-geert+renesas@glider.be/

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: overlay: check prevents multiple fragments touching same property</title>
<updated>2018-11-09T06:12:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-05T03:36:18+00:00</published>
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Add test case of two fragments updating the same property.  After
adding the test case, the system hangs at end of boot, after
after slub stack dumps from kfree() in crypto modprobe code.

Multiple overlay fragments adding, modifying, or deleting the same
property is not supported.  Add check to detect the attempt and fail
the overlay apply.

Before this patch, the first fragment error would terminate
processing.  Allow fragment checking to proceed and report all
of the fragment errors before terminating the overlay apply. This
is not a hot path, thus not a performance issue (the error is not
transient and requires fixing the overlay before attempting to
apply it again).

After applying this patch, the devicetree unittest messages will
include:

   OF: overlay: ERROR: multiple fragments add, update, and/or delete property /testcase-data-2/substation@100/motor-1/rpm_avail

   ...

   ### dt-test ### end of unittest - 212 passed, 0 failed

The check to detect two fragments updating the same property is
folded into the patch that created the test case to maintain
bisectability.

Tested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
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Add test case of two fragments updating the same property.  After
adding the test case, the system hangs at end of boot, after
after slub stack dumps from kfree() in crypto modprobe code.

Multiple overlay fragments adding, modifying, or deleting the same
property is not supported.  Add check to detect the attempt and fail
the overlay apply.

Before this patch, the first fragment error would terminate
processing.  Allow fragment checking to proceed and report all
of the fragment errors before terminating the overlay apply. This
is not a hot path, thus not a performance issue (the error is not
transient and requires fixing the overlay before attempting to
apply it again).

After applying this patch, the devicetree unittest messages will
include:

   OF: overlay: ERROR: multiple fragments add, update, and/or delete property /testcase-data-2/substation@100/motor-1/rpm_avail

   ...

   ### dt-test ### end of unittest - 212 passed, 0 failed

The check to detect two fragments updating the same property is
folded into the patch that created the test case to maintain
bisectability.

Tested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: overlay: test case of two fragments adding same node</title>
<updated>2018-11-09T06:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-05T03:34:33+00:00</published>
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Multiple overlay fragments adding or deleting the same node is not
supported.  An attempt to do so results in an incorrect devicetree.
The node name will be munged for the second add.

After adding this patch, the unittest messages will show:

   Duplicate name in motor-1, renamed to "controller#1"
   OF: overlay: of_overlay_apply() err=0
   ### dt-test ### of_overlay_fdt_apply() expected -22, ret=0, overlay_bad_add_dup_node
   ### dt-test ### FAIL of_unittest_overlay_high_level():2419 Adding overlay 'overlay_bad_add_dup_node' failed

   ...

   ### dt-test ### end of unittest - 210 passed, 1 failed

The incorrect (munged) node name "controller#1" can be seen in the
/proc filesystem:

   $ pwd
   /proc/device-tree/testcase-data-2/substation@100/motor-1
   $ ls
   compatible    controller    controller#1  name          phandle       spin
   $ ls controller
   power_bus
   $ ls controller#1
   power_bus_emergency

Tested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
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Multiple overlay fragments adding or deleting the same node is not
supported.  An attempt to do so results in an incorrect devicetree.
The node name will be munged for the second add.

After adding this patch, the unittest messages will show:

   Duplicate name in motor-1, renamed to "controller#1"
   OF: overlay: of_overlay_apply() err=0
   ### dt-test ### of_overlay_fdt_apply() expected -22, ret=0, overlay_bad_add_dup_node
   ### dt-test ### FAIL of_unittest_overlay_high_level():2419 Adding overlay 'overlay_bad_add_dup_node' failed

   ...

   ### dt-test ### end of unittest - 210 passed, 1 failed

The incorrect (munged) node name "controller#1" can be seen in the
/proc filesystem:

   $ pwd
   /proc/device-tree/testcase-data-2/substation@100/motor-1
   $ ls
   compatible    controller    controller#1  name          phandle       spin
   $ ls controller
   power_bus
   $ ls controller#1
   power_bus_emergency

Tested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: mark $(targets) as .SECONDARY and remove .PRECIOUS markers</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T10:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T13:04:39+00:00</published>
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GNU Make automatically deletes intermediate files that are updated
in a chain of pattern rules.

Example 1) %.dtb.o &lt;- %.dtb.S &lt;- %.dtb &lt;- %.dts
Example 2) %.o &lt;- %.c &lt;- %.c_shipped

A couple of makefiles mark such targets as .PRECIOUS to prevent Make
from deleting them, but the correct way is to use .SECONDARY.

  .SECONDARY
    Prerequisites of this special target are treated as intermediate
    files but are never automatically deleted.

  .PRECIOUS
    When make is interrupted during execution, it may delete the target
    file it is updating if the file was modified since make started.
    If you mark the file as precious, make will never delete the file
    if interrupted.

Both can avoid deletion of intermediate files, but the difference is
the behavior when Make is interrupted; .SECONDARY deletes the target,
but .PRECIOUS does not.

The use of .PRECIOUS is relatively rare since we do not want to keep
partially constructed (possibly corrupted) targets.

Another difference is that .PRECIOUS works with pattern rules whereas
.SECONDARY does not.

  .PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.lex.c

works, but

  .SECONDARY: $(obj)/%.lex.c

has no effect.  However, for the reason above, I do not want to use
.PRECIOUS which could cause obscure build breakage.

The targets specified as .SECONDARY must be explicit.  $(targets)
contains all targets that need to include .*.cmd files.  So, the
intermediates you want to keep are mostly in there.  Therefore, mark
$(targets) as .SECONDARY.  It means primary targets are also marked
as .SECONDARY, but I do not see any drawback for this.

I replaced some .SECONDARY / .PRECIOUS markers with 'targets'.  This
will make Kbuild search for non-existing .*.cmd files, but this is
not a noticeable performance issue.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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GNU Make automatically deletes intermediate files that are updated
in a chain of pattern rules.

Example 1) %.dtb.o &lt;- %.dtb.S &lt;- %.dtb &lt;- %.dts
Example 2) %.o &lt;- %.c &lt;- %.c_shipped

A couple of makefiles mark such targets as .PRECIOUS to prevent Make
from deleting them, but the correct way is to use .SECONDARY.

  .SECONDARY
    Prerequisites of this special target are treated as intermediate
    files but are never automatically deleted.

  .PRECIOUS
    When make is interrupted during execution, it may delete the target
    file it is updating if the file was modified since make started.
    If you mark the file as precious, make will never delete the file
    if interrupted.

Both can avoid deletion of intermediate files, but the difference is
the behavior when Make is interrupted; .SECONDARY deletes the target,
but .PRECIOUS does not.

The use of .PRECIOUS is relatively rare since we do not want to keep
partially constructed (possibly corrupted) targets.

Another difference is that .PRECIOUS works with pattern rules whereas
.SECONDARY does not.

  .PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.lex.c

works, but

  .SECONDARY: $(obj)/%.lex.c

has no effect.  However, for the reason above, I do not want to use
.PRECIOUS which could cause obscure build breakage.

The targets specified as .SECONDARY must be explicit.  $(targets)
contains all targets that need to include .*.cmd files.  So, the
intermediates you want to keep are mostly in there.  Therefore, mark
$(targets) as .SECONDARY.  It means primary targets are also marked
as .SECONDARY, but I do not see any drawback for this.

I replaced some .SECONDARY / .PRECIOUS markers with 'targets'.  This
will make Kbuild search for non-existing .*.cmd files, but this is
not a noticeable performance issue.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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