[PATCH v8 01/16] FDT: introduce global phandle allocation

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Mon Dec 19 10:43:58 PST 2016


Hi Marc,

On 09/12/16 12:03, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 04/11/16 17:31, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> Allocating an FDT phandle (a unique identifier) using a static
>> variable in a static inline function defined in a header file works
>> only if all users are in the same source file. So trying to allocate
>> a handle from two different compilation units fails.
>> Introduce global phandle allocation and reference code to properly
>> allocate unique phandles.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  Makefile          |  1 +
>>  arm/fdt.c         |  2 +-
>>  arm/gic.c         |  2 +-
>>  include/kvm/fdt.h | 10 +++++-----
>>  kvm-fdt.c         | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 kvm-fdt.c
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 1f0196f..e4a4002 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ OBJS	+= kvm-ipc.o
>>  OBJS	+= builtin-sandbox.o
>>  OBJS	+= virtio/mmio.o
>>  OBJS	+= hw/i8042.o
>> +OBJS	+= kvm-fdt.o
>>  
>>  # Translate uname -m into ARCH string
>>  ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/ppc.*/powerpc/ \
>> diff --git a/arm/fdt.c b/arm/fdt.c
>> index 381d48f..8bcfffb 100644
>> --- a/arm/fdt.c
>> +++ b/arm/fdt.c
>> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static int setup_fdt(struct kvm *kvm)
>>  {
>>  	struct device_header *dev_hdr;
>>  	u8 staging_fdt[FDT_MAX_SIZE];
>> -	u32 gic_phandle		= fdt__alloc_phandle();
>> +	u32 gic_phandle		= fdt__get_phandle(PHANDLE_GIC);
>>  	u64 mem_reg_prop[]	= {
>>  		cpu_to_fdt64(kvm->arch.memory_guest_start),
>>  		cpu_to_fdt64(kvm->ram_size),
>> diff --git a/arm/gic.c b/arm/gic.c
>> index d6d6dd0..b60437e 100644
>> --- a/arm/gic.c
>> +++ b/arm/gic.c
>> @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ void gic__generate_fdt_nodes(void *fdt, u32 phandle, enum irqchip_type type)
>>  	_FDT(fdt_property_cell(fdt, "#interrupt-cells", GIC_FDT_IRQ_NUM_CELLS));
>>  	_FDT(fdt_property(fdt, "interrupt-controller", NULL, 0));
>>  	_FDT(fdt_property(fdt, "reg", reg_prop, sizeof(reg_prop)));
>> -	_FDT(fdt_property_cell(fdt, "phandle", phandle));
>> +	_FDT(fdt_property_cell(fdt, "phandle", fdt__get_phandle(PHANDLE_GIC)));
>>  	_FDT(fdt_end_node(fdt));
>>  }
>>  
>> diff --git a/include/kvm/fdt.h b/include/kvm/fdt.h
>> index 53d85a4..cd2bb72 100644
>> --- a/include/kvm/fdt.h
>> +++ b/include/kvm/fdt.h
>> @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
>>  #include <linux/types.h>
>>  
>>  #define FDT_MAX_SIZE	0x10000
>> +#define FDT_INVALID_PHANDLE 0
>> +#define FDT_IS_VALID_PHANDLE(phandle) ((phandle) != FDT_INVALID_PHANDLE)
>> +
>> +enum phandles {PHANDLE_GIC, PHANDLES_MAX};
> 
> Another nit here: PHANDLE_GIC is pretty much ARM-specific, while FDT is
> supposed to be generic. Can't we move the enum to be architecture
> specific and not put this in an architecture agnostic one?

Yes, that indeed makes sense.
This requires an include file for every architecture, but well ...

Cheers,
Andre.



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