How is length parameter calculated from a device tree property, i,e. what is the meaning of property length and how its calculated from a device tree.
struct property {
char *name;
int length;
void *value;
struct property *next;
unsigned long _flags;
unsigned int unique_id;
struct bin__attribute attr;
};
Here is an example of initialization device tree node from kernel source code.
/* There should really .. oh whatever */
memset(&prop, 0, sizeof(prop));
prop.name = prop_name;
prop.value = &prop_data;
prop.length = sizeof(prop_data);
As you can see nothing special. Just sizeof(prop). It's msi_bitmap.c file. You can research it.
A little bit more interesting code here(drivers/of/fdt.c):
/* process properties */
for (offset = fdt_first_property_offset(blob, *poffset);
(offset >= 0);
(offset = fdt_next_property_offset(blob, offset))) {
const char *pname;
u32 sz;
if (!(p = fdt_getprop_by_offset(blob, offset, &pname, &sz))) {
offset = -FDT_ERR_INTERNAL;
break;
}
if (pname == NULL) {
pr_info("Can't find property name in list !\n");
break;
}
if (strcmp(pname, "name") == 0)
has_name = 1;
pp = unflatten_dt_alloc(&mem, sizeof(struct property),
__alignof__(struct property));
if (!dryrun) {
/* We accept flattened tree phandles either in
* ePAPR-style "phandle" properties, or the
* legacy "linux,phandle" properties. If both
* appear and have different values, things
* will get weird. Don't do that. */
if ((strcmp(pname, "phandle") == 0) ||
(strcmp(pname, "linux,phandle") == 0)) {
if (np->phandle == 0)
np->phandle = be32_to_cpup(p);
}
/* And we process the "ibm,phandle" property
* used in pSeries dynamic device tree
* stuff */
if (strcmp(pname, "ibm,phandle") == 0)
np->phandle = be32_to_cpup(p);
pp->name = (char *)pname;
pp->length = sz;
pp->value = (__be32 *)p;
*prev_pp = pp;
prev_pp = &pp->next;
}
}
