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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] of/fdt: skip unflattening of disabled nodes
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 <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

> ---
> For more background, see this presentation from Nico:
>
> https://connect.linaro.org/resource/sfo17/sfo17-100/

Oh my ... this is horrible ...

/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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