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Paul Walmsley authored
Add support for direct IP block interconnect ("link") registration to the hwmod code via a new function, omap_hwmod_register_links(). This will replace direct registration of hwmods, and a subsequent patch will remove omap_hwmod_register(). This change will allow a subsequent patch to remove the hwmod data link arrays. This will reduce the size of the hwmod static data and also make it easier to generate the data files. It will also make it possible to share some of the struct omap_hwmod records across multiple SoCs, since the link array pointers will be removed from the struct omap_hwmod. The downside is that boot time will increase. Minimizing boot time was the reason why the link arrays were originally introduced. Removing them will require extra computation during boot to allocate memory and associate IP blocks with their interconnects. However, since the current kernel development focus is on reducing the number of lines in arch/arm/mach-omap2/, boot time impact is now seemingly considered a lower priority. This patch contains additional complexity to reduce the number of memory allocations required for this change. This reduces the boot time impact: total hwmod link registration time was ~ 2655 microseconds with a simple allocation strategy, but is now ~ 549 microseconds[1] with the approach taken by this patch. 1. Measured on a BeagleBoard 35xx @ 500MHz MPU/333 MHz CORE, average of 7 samples. Total uncertainty is +/- 61 microseconds. Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Cc: Benoît Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>
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