Re: [PATCH] ACPI: bus: Match first 9 bytes of device IDs

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

Hi Alex,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 08:06:39PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 25.02.22 19:39, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Okay, the final piece, userspace:
> >
> > /sys/bus/acpi/devices/QEMUVGID:00/modalias gives:
> >      acpi:QEMUVGID:VM_GEN_COUNTER:
> >
> > modinfo -F alias vmgenid.ko gives:
> >      acpi*:VM_GEN_COUNTER:*
> >
> > udev src uses fnmatch.
> >
> > Bash confirms a match:
> >
> > $ [[ "acpi:QEMUVGID:VM_GEN_COUNTER:" == acpi*:VM_GEN_COUNTER:* ]] &&
> > echo matches
> > matches
> >
> > So I think with ACPI_ID_LEN --> 16 we are good to go.
> 
> 
> Is the size increase (mostly rodata I suppose? Anywhere else?) measurable?

On my test kernel, the size of vmlinux increases from 26918200 bytes to
26918200 bytes.

Wait, did I do that test right? I'll try again.

Yep, 26918200 -> 26918200, so it doesn't grow at all. I believe the
reason is mostly because of:

    #define ACPI_ID_LEN     16
    
    struct acpi_device_id {
      __u8 id[ACPI_ID_LEN];
      kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
      __u32 cls;
      __u32 cls_msk;
    };

Because of the padding, 9->16 doesn't actually change the way this
structure is allocated. Then, additional uses of ACPI_ID_LEN throughout
the tree are rather sparse or enclosed within other structures or
similar things.

In other words, code size seems like very much a non-issue. Also, it's
not as though MIPS has ACPI. We're talking about x86, Itanium, and
(sometimes, I guess) arm64.

Regards,
Jason