hw/nvram: Avoid unnecessary Xilinx eFuse backstore write

Add a check in the bit-set operation to write the backstore
only if the affected bit is 0 before.

With this in place, there will be no need for callers to
do the checking in order to avoid unnecessary writes.

Signed-off-by: Tong Ho <tong.ho@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Iglesias <frasse.iglesias@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/hw/nvram/xlnx-efuse.c b/hw/nvram/xlnx-efuse.c
index fdfffaab99..655c40b8d1 100644
--- a/hw/nvram/xlnx-efuse.c
+++ b/hw/nvram/xlnx-efuse.c
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ static bool efuse_ro_bits_find(XlnxEFuse *s, uint32_t k)
 
 bool xlnx_efuse_set_bit(XlnxEFuse *s, unsigned int bit)
 {
+    uint32_t set, *row;
+
     if (efuse_ro_bits_find(s, bit)) {
         g_autofree char *path = object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(s));
 
@@ -152,8 +154,13 @@ bool xlnx_efuse_set_bit(XlnxEFuse *s, unsigned int bit)
         return false;
     }
 
-    s->fuse32[bit / 32] |= 1 << (bit % 32);
-    efuse_bdrv_sync(s, bit);
+    /* Avoid back-end write unless there is a real update */
+    row = &s->fuse32[bit / 32];
+    set = 1 << (bit % 32);
+    if (!(set & *row)) {
+        *row |= set;
+        efuse_bdrv_sync(s, bit);
+    }
     return true;
 }