Subject: [PATCH 2/2] of/fdt: skip unflattening of disabled nodes

From: [email-masked] (Frank Rowand)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 14:58:43 -0700

On 10/03/17 11:46, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
>> For static DT usecases, we don't need the disabled nodes and can skip
>> unflattening. This saves a significant amount of RAM in memory constrained
>> cases. In one example on STM32F469, the RAM usage goes from 118K to 26K.
>>
>> There are a few cases in the kernel that modify the status property
>> dynamically. These all are changes from enabled to disabled, depend on
>> OF_DYNAMIC or are not FDT based (PDT based).
>>
>> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Frank Rowand <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email-masked]>
> 
> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]>
> 
>> ---
>> For more background, see this presentation from Nico:
>>
>> https://connect.linaro.org/resource/sfo17/sfo17-100/
> 
> Oh my ... this is horrible ...

I found the presentation to be quite good and useful.
The Linaro site does not have the slides, could you please send
me a copy?

Thanks,

Frank

> 
> /me hides in shame
> 
>>
>>  drivers/of/fdt.c | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
>> index f8c39705418b..efe91c6856a0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
>> @@ -396,6 +396,10 @@ static int unflatten_dt_nodes(const void *blob,
>>  		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(depth >= FDT_MAX_DEPTH))
>>  			continue;
>>  
>> +		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC) &&
>> +		    !of_fdt_device_is_available(blob, offset))
>> +			continue;
>> +
>>  		if (!populate_node(blob, offset, &mem, nps[depth],
>>  				   &nps[depth+1], dryrun))
>>  			return mem - base;
>> -- 
>> 2.11.0
>>
>>
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