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    ASoC: soc-cache: Add support for rbtree based register caching · a7f387d5
    Dimitris Papastamos authored
    This patch adds support for rbtree compression when storing the
    register cache.  It does this by not adding any uninitialized registers
    (those whose value is 0).  If any of those registers is written
    with a nonzero value they get added into the rbtree.
    
    Consider a sample device with a large sparse register map.  The
    register indices are between [0, 0x31ff].  An array of 12800 registers
    is thus created each of which is 2 bytes.  This results in a 25kB
    region.  This array normally lives outside soc-core, normally in the
    driver itself.  The original soc-core code would kmemdup this region
    resulting in 50kB total memory.  When using the rbtree compression
    technique and __devinitconst on the original array the figures are
    as follows.  For this typical device, you might have 100 initialized
    registers, that is registers that are nonzero by default.  We build
    an rbtree with 100 nodes, each of which is 24 bytes.  This results
    in ~2kB of memory.  Assuming that the target arch can freeup the
    memory used by the initial __devinitconst array, we end up using
    about ~2kB bytes of actual memory.  The memory footprint will increase
    as uninitialized registers get written and thus new nodes created in
    the rbtree.  In practice, most of those registers are never changed.
    If the target arch can't freeup the __devinitconst array, we end up
    using a total of ~27kB.  The difference between the rbtree and the LZO
    caching techniques, is that if using the LZO technique the size of
    the cache will increase slower as more uninitialized registers get
    changed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarLiam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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