Re: [PATCH v4 09/14] of: reserved-memory: Fix using wrong number of cells to get property 'alignment'

[William McVicker]

On 02/25/2025, Zijun Hu wrote:
> On 2/25/2025 9:18 AM, William McVicker wrote:
> > Hi Zijun and Rob,
> > 
> > On 01/13/2025, Rob Herring wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:27:00PM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
> >>> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> According to DT spec, size of property 'alignment' is based on parent
> >>> node’s #size-cells property.
> >>>
> >>> But __reserved_mem_alloc_size() wrongly uses @dt_root_addr_cells to get
> >>> the property obviously.
> >>>
> >>> Fix by using @dt_root_size_cells instead of @dt_root_addr_cells.
> >>
> >> I wonder if changing this might break someone. It's been this way for 
> >> a long time. It might be better to change the spec or just read 
> >> 'alignment' as whatever size it happens to be (len / 4). It's not really 
> >> the kernel's job to validate the DT. We should first have some 
> >> validation in place to *know* if there are any current .dts files that 
> >> would break. That would probably be easier to implement in dtc than 
> >> dtschema. Cases of #address-cells != #size-cells should be pretty rare, 
> >> but that was the default for OpenFirmware.
> >>
> >> As the alignment is the base address alignment, it can be argued that 
> >> "#address-cells" makes more sense to use than "#size-cells". So maybe 
> >> the spec was a copy-n-paste error.
> > 
> > Yes, this breaks our Pixel downstream DT :( Also, the upstream Pixel 6 device
> > tree has cases where #address-cells != #size-cells.
> > 
> 
> it seems upstream upstream Pixel 6 has no property 'alignment'
> git grep alignment arch/arm64/boot/dts/exynos/google/
> so it should not be broken.

That's right. I was responding to Rob's statement about #address-cells !=
#size-cells being pretty rare. And wanted to give credance to the idea that
this change could possible break someone.

> 
> > I would prefer to not have this change, but if that's not possible, could we
> > not backport it to all the stable branches? That way we can just force new
> > devices to fix this instead of existing devices on older LTS kernels?
> > 
> 
> the fix have stable and fix tags. not sure if we can control its
> backporting. the fix has been backported to 6.1/6.6/6.12/6.13 automatically.

Right, I think it's already backported to the LTS kernels, but if it breaks any
in-tree users then we'd have to revert it. I just like Rob's idea to instead
change the spec for obvious reasons :)

Regards,
Will

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