ACPICA: Performance enhancement for namespace search and access

This change enhances the performance of namespace searches and
walks by adding a backpointer to the parent in each namespace
node. On large namespaces, this change can improve overall ACPI
performance by up to 9X.  Adding a pointer to each namespace node
increases the overall size of the internal namespace by about 5%,
since each namespace entry usually consists of both a namespace
node and an ACPI operand object.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 113 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c
index bab559712da1..e1add3491b04 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c
@@ -847,116 +847,3 @@ acpi_ns_get_node(struct acpi_namespace_node *prefix_node,
 	ACPI_FREE(internal_path);
 	return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
 }
-
-/*******************************************************************************
- *
- * FUNCTION:    acpi_ns_get_parent_node
- *
- * PARAMETERS:  Node       - Current table entry
- *
- * RETURN:      Parent entry of the given entry
- *
- * DESCRIPTION: Obtain the parent entry for a given entry in the namespace.
- *
- ******************************************************************************/
-
-struct acpi_namespace_node *acpi_ns_get_parent_node(struct acpi_namespace_node
-						    *node)
-{
-	ACPI_FUNCTION_ENTRY();
-
-	if (!node) {
-		return (NULL);
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Walk to the end of this peer list. The last entry is marked with a flag
-	 * and the peer pointer is really a pointer back to the parent. This saves
-	 * putting a parent back pointer in each and every named object!
-	 */
-	while (!(node->flags & ANOBJ_END_OF_PEER_LIST)) {
-		node = node->peer;
-	}
-
-	return (node->peer);
-}
-
-/*******************************************************************************
- *
- * FUNCTION:    acpi_ns_get_next_valid_node
- *
- * PARAMETERS:  Node       - Current table entry
- *
- * RETURN:      Next valid Node in the linked node list. NULL if no more valid
- *              nodes.
- *
- * DESCRIPTION: Find the next valid node within a name table.
- *              Useful for implementing NULL-end-of-list loops.
- *
- ******************************************************************************/
-
-struct acpi_namespace_node *acpi_ns_get_next_valid_node(struct
-							acpi_namespace_node
-							*node)
-{
-
-	/* If we are at the end of this peer list, return NULL */
-
-	if (node->flags & ANOBJ_END_OF_PEER_LIST) {
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	/* Otherwise just return the next peer */
-
-	return (node->peer);
-}
-
-#ifdef ACPI_OBSOLETE_FUNCTIONS
-/*******************************************************************************
- *
- * FUNCTION:    acpi_ns_find_parent_name
- *
- * PARAMETERS:  *child_node            - Named Obj whose name is to be found
- *
- * RETURN:      The ACPI name
- *
- * DESCRIPTION: Search for the given obj in its parent scope and return the
- *              name segment, or "????" if the parent name can't be found
- *              (which "should not happen").
- *
- ******************************************************************************/
-
-acpi_name acpi_ns_find_parent_name(struct acpi_namespace_node * child_node)
-{
-	struct acpi_namespace_node *parent_node;
-
-	ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(ns_find_parent_name);
-
-	if (child_node) {
-
-		/* Valid entry.  Get the parent Node */
-
-		parent_node = acpi_ns_get_parent_node(child_node);
-		if (parent_node) {
-			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_EXEC,
-					  "Parent of %p [%4.4s] is %p [%4.4s]\n",
-					  child_node,
-					  acpi_ut_get_node_name(child_node),
-					  parent_node,
-					  acpi_ut_get_node_name(parent_node)));
-
-			if (parent_node->name.integer) {
-				return_VALUE((acpi_name) parent_node->name.
-					     integer);
-			}
-		}
-
-		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_EXEC,
-				  "Unable to find parent of %p (%4.4s)\n",
-				  child_node,
-				  acpi_ut_get_node_name(child_node)));
-	}
-
-	return_VALUE(ACPI_UNKNOWN_NAME);
-}
-#endif