Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] drivers: base cacheinfo: Add support for ACPI based firmware tables

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/12/2017 05:02 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/12/2017 11:25 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> (trimming list)
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>>>>>> What about converting this to using struct fwnode instead of adding
>>>>>> fields to it?
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>>>>> I didn't really want to add another field here, but I've also pointed
>>>>> out
>>>>> how I thought converting it to a fwnode wasn't a good choice.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/20/502
>>>>>
>>>>> Mostly because IMHO its even more misleading (lacking any
>>>>> fwnode_operations)
>>>>> than misusing the of_node as a void *.
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>>>> I'm not sure what you mean.
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>>>
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>>> Converting the DT drivers/cacheinfo.c code to use a fwnode_handle is
>>> straightforward. But IMHO it doesn't solve the readability problem of
>>> either
>>> casting the ACPI/PPTT token directly to the resulting fwnode_handle *, or
>>> alternatively an actual fwnode_handle with bogus fwnode_operations to
>>> wrap
>>> that token.
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>> I'm not talking about that at all.
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>>>>
>>>> Anyway, the idea is to have one pointer in there instead of two that
>>>> cannot be used at the same time and there's no reason why of_node
>>>> should be special.
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>>>          Avoid two pointers for size, or readability? Because the last
>>> version had a union with of_node, which isn't strictly necessary as I can
>>> just cast the pptt token to of_node. There is exactly one line of code
>>> after
>>> that which uses the token and it doesn't care about type.
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>> So call this field "token" or similar.  Don't call it "of_node" and
>> don't introduce another "firmware_node" thing in addition to that.
>> That just is a mess, sorry.
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> I sort of agree, I think I can just change the whole of_node to a generic
> 'void *firmware_unique' which works fine for the PPTT code, it should also
> work for the DT code in cache_leaves_are_shared().
>
> The slight gocha is there is a bit of DT code which initially runs earlier
> that uses of_node as an indirect parameter to a couple functions (by just
> passing the cacheinfo). Let me see if I can tweak that a bit.
>
> Frankly, If I understood completely all the *priv cases I suspect it might
> be possible to collapse *of_node into that as well. That is as long as no
> one decides to flush out DT on x86, or PPTT on x86.

I'm not aware of any plans to go in that direction.

Anyway, that would be a worry of whoever wanted to do that.  No need
to worry about it upfront.