| Open Firmware Device Tree Unittest |
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| Author: Gaurav Minocha <gaurav.minocha.os@gmail.com> |
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| 1. Introduction |
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| This document explains how the test data required for executing OF unittest |
| is attached to the live tree dynamically, independent of the machine's |
| architecture. |
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| It is recommended to read the following documents before moving ahead. |
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| [1] Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt |
| [2] http://www.devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage |
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| OF Selftest has been designed to test the interface (include/linux/of.h) |
| provided to device driver developers to fetch the device information..etc. |
| from the unflattened device tree data structure. This interface is used by |
| most of the device drivers in various use cases. |
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| 2. Test-data |
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| The Device Tree Source file (drivers/of/unittest-data/testcases.dts) contains |
| the test data required for executing the unit tests automated in |
| drivers/of/unittest.c. Currently, following Device Tree Source Include files |
| (.dtsi) are included in testcases.dts: |
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| drivers/of/unittest-data/tests-interrupts.dtsi |
| drivers/of/unittest-data/tests-platform.dtsi |
| drivers/of/unittest-data/tests-phandle.dtsi |
| drivers/of/unittest-data/tests-match.dtsi |
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| When the kernel is build with OF_SELFTEST enabled, then the following make rule |
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| $(obj)/%.dtb: $(src)/%.dts FORCE |
| $(call if_changed_dep, dtc) |
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| is used to compile the DT source file (testcases.dts) into a binary blob |
| (testcases.dtb), also referred as flattened DT. |
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| After that, using the following rule the binary blob above is wrapped as an |
| assembly file (testcases.dtb.S). |
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| $(obj)/%.dtb.S: $(obj)/%.dtb |
| $(call cmd, dt_S_dtb) |
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| The assembly file is compiled into an object file (testcases.dtb.o), and is |
| linked into the kernel image. |
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| 2.1. Adding the test data |
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| Un-flattened device tree structure: |
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| Un-flattened device tree consists of connected device_node(s) in form of a tree |
| structure described below. |
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| // following struct members are used to construct the tree |
| struct device_node { |
| ... |
| struct device_node *parent; |
| struct device_node *child; |
| struct device_node *sibling; |
| ... |
| }; |
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| Figure 1, describes a generic structure of machine's un-flattened device tree |
| considering only child and sibling pointers. There exists another pointer, |
| *parent, that is used to traverse the tree in the reverse direction. So, at |
| a particular level the child node and all the sibling nodes will have a parent |
| pointer pointing to a common node (e.g. child1, sibling2, sibling3, sibling4's |
| parent points to root node) |
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| root ('/') |
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| child1 -> sibling2 -> sibling3 -> sibling4 -> null |
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| | | | null |
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| | | child31 -> sibling32 -> null |
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| | | null null |
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| | child21 -> sibling22 -> sibling23 -> null |
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| | null null null |
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| child11 -> sibling12 -> sibling13 -> sibling14 -> null |
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| | | | null |
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| null null child131 -> null |
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| null |
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| Figure 1: Generic structure of un-flattened device tree |
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| Before executing OF unittest, it is required to attach the test data to |
| machine's device tree (if present). So, when selftest_data_add() is called, |
| at first it reads the flattened device tree data linked into the kernel image |
| via the following kernel symbols: |
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| __dtb_testcases_begin - address marking the start of test data blob |
| __dtb_testcases_end - address marking the end of test data blob |
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| Secondly, it calls of_fdt_unflatten_tree() to unflatten the flattened |
| blob. And finally, if the machine's device tree (i.e live tree) is present, |
| then it attaches the unflattened test data tree to the live tree, else it |
| attaches itself as a live device tree. |
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| attach_node_and_children() uses of_attach_node() to attach the nodes into the |
| live tree as explained below. To explain the same, the test data tree described |
| in Figure 2 is attached to the live tree described in Figure 1. |
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| root ('/') |
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| testcase-data |
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| test-child0 -> test-sibling1 -> test-sibling2 -> test-sibling3 -> null |
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| test-child01 null null null |
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| Figure 2: Example test data tree to be attached to live tree. |
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| According to the scenario above, the live tree is already present so it isn't |
| required to attach the root('/') node. All other nodes are attached by calling |
| of_attach_node() on each node. |
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| In the function of_attach_node(), the new node is attached as the child of the |
| given parent in live tree. But, if parent already has a child then the new node |
| replaces the current child and turns it into its sibling. So, when the testcase |
| data node is attached to the live tree above (Figure 1), the final structure is |
| as shown in Figure 3. |
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| root ('/') |
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| testcase-data -> child1 -> sibling2 -> sibling3 -> sibling4 -> null |
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| (...) | | | null |
| | | child31 -> sibling32 -> null |
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| | | null null |
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| | child21 -> sibling22 -> sibling23 -> null |
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| | null null null |
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| child11 -> sibling12 -> sibling13 -> sibling14 -> null |
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| null null | null |
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| child131 -> null |
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| null |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| root ('/') |
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| testcase-data -> child1 -> sibling2 -> sibling3 -> sibling4 -> null |
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| | (...) (...) (...) null |
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| test-sibling3 -> test-sibling2 -> test-sibling1 -> test-child0 -> null |
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| null null null test-child01 |
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| Figure 3: Live device tree structure after attaching the testcase-data. |
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| Astute readers would have noticed that test-child0 node becomes the last |
| sibling compared to the earlier structure (Figure 2). After attaching first |
| test-child0 the test-sibling1 is attached that pushes the child node |
| (i.e. test-child0) to become a sibling and makes itself a child node, |
| as mentioned above. |
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| If a duplicate node is found (i.e. if a node with same full_name property is |
| already present in the live tree), then the node isn't attached rather its |
| properties are updated to the live tree's node by calling the function |
| update_node_properties(). |
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| 2.2. Removing the test data |
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| Once the test case execution is complete, selftest_data_remove is called in |
| order to remove the device nodes attached initially (first the leaf nodes are |
| detached and then moving up the parent nodes are removed, and eventually the |
| whole tree). selftest_data_remove() calls detach_node_and_children() that uses |
| of_detach_node() to detach the nodes from the live device tree. |
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| To detach a node, of_detach_node() either updates the child pointer of given |
| node's parent to its sibling or attaches the previous sibling to the given |
| node's sibling, as appropriate. That is it :) |
