[PATCH v1] fs2dt: Refine kdump device_tree sort

Yang,Wei Wei.Yang at windriver.com
Mon Jun 16 23:01:13 PDT 2014


Hi Simon,

How about this patch?

Thanks
Wei
On 06/12/2014 01:16 PM, Wei.Yang at windriver.com wrote:
> From: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang at windriver.com>
>
> The commit b02d735bf was to rearrange the device-tree entries, and
> assumed that these entries are sorted in the ascending order. but
> acctually when I was validating kexec and kdump, the order of
> serial node still is changed. We should not only compare the length
> of directory name, but also compare the directory name, it would
> ensure that the order of device node is really in ascending order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang at windriver.com>
> ---
>   kexec/fs2dt.c |   13 ++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> 		It is validated on Freescale t4240qds.
>
> diff --git a/kexec/fs2dt.c b/kexec/fs2dt.c
> index 1e5f074..0bffaf5 100644
> --- a/kexec/fs2dt.c
> +++ b/kexec/fs2dt.c
> @@ -479,6 +479,9 @@ static int comparefunc(const struct dirent **dentry1,
>   {
>   	char *str1 = (*(struct dirent **)dentry1)->d_name;
>   	char *str2 = (*(struct dirent **)dentry2)->d_name;
> +	char* ptr1 = strchr(str1, '@');
> +	char* ptr2 = strchr(str2, '@');
> +	int len1, len2;
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * strcmp scans from left to right and fails to idetify for some
> @@ -486,9 +489,13 @@ static int comparefunc(const struct dirent **dentry1,
>   	 * Therefore, we get the wrong sorted order like memory at 10000000 and
>   	 * memory at f000000.
>   	 */
> -	if (strchr(str1, '@') && strchr(str2, '@') &&
> -		(strlen(str1) > strlen(str2)))
> -		return 1;
> +	if (ptr1 && ptr2) {
> +		len1 = ptr1 - str1;
> +		len2 = ptr2 - str2;
> +		if (!strncmp(str1, str2, len1 >len2 ? len1: len2) &&
> +					(strlen(str1) > strlen(str2)))
> +				return 1;
> +	}
>   
>   	return strcmp(str1, str2);
>   }




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