[PATCH v3] fdt: Use phandle to distinguish DT nodes with same name

Aswath Govindraju a-govindraju at ti.com
Thu Dec 3 06:25:45 CET 2020


While assigning the sequence number to subsystem instances by reading the
aliases property, only DT nodes names are compared and not the complete
path. This causes a problem when there are two DT nodes with same name but
have different paths.

In arch/arm/dts/k3-am65-main.dtsi there are two USB controllers with the
same device tree node name but different path. When aliases are defined for
these USB controllers then fdtdec_get_alias_seq() fails to pick the correct
instance for a given index.

fdt_path_offset() function is slow and this would effect the U-Boot
startup. To avert the time penalty on all boards, apply this extra check
only when required by using a config option.

Fix it by comparing the phandles of DT nodes after the node names match,
under a config option.

Signed-off-by: Aswath Govindraju <a-govindraju at ti.com>
---

Changes since v2:
 - changed #ifdef to if(IS_ENABLED())
 - corrected errors in commit description

Changes since v1:
 - Added a config option as fdt_path_offset() slows down the u-boot start
   up and would be better to be enabled only when required
 - Added an example case in commit message where the following fix is
   required.

 lib/Kconfig  |  8 ++++++++
 lib/fdtdec.c | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 8efb154f7344..9813a3a5e0ba 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -685,3 +685,11 @@ config LIB_ELF
 	  This supports fir 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
 
 endmenu
+
+config PHANDLE_CHECK_SEQ
+	bool "Enable phandle check while getting sequence number"
+	default n
+	help
+	  When there are multiple device tree nodes with same name,
+         enable this config option to distinguish them using
+	  phandles in fdtdec_get_alias_seq() function.
diff --git a/lib/fdtdec.c b/lib/fdtdec.c
index ee1bd41b0818..0ab7105fef0d 100644
--- a/lib/fdtdec.c
+++ b/lib/fdtdec.c
@@ -500,6 +500,17 @@ int fdtdec_get_alias_seq(const void *blob, const char *base, int offset,
 		slash = strrchr(prop, '/');
 		if (strcmp(slash + 1, find_name))
 			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Adding an extra check to distinguish DT nodes with
+		 * same name
+		 */
+		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PHANDLE_CHECK_SEQ)) {
+			if (fdt_get_phandle(blob, offset) !=
+			    fdt_get_phandle(blob, fdt_path_offset(blob, prop)))
+				continue;
+		}
+
 		val = trailing_strtol(name);
 		if (val != -1) {
 			*seqp = val;
-- 
2.17.1



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