nvmem: core: Expose cells through sysfs

The binary content of nvmem devices is available to the user so in the
easiest cases, finding the content of a cell is rather easy as it is
just a matter of l

nvmem: core: Expose cells through sysfs

The binary content of nvmem devices is available to the user so in the
easiest cases, finding the content of a cell is rather easy as it is
just a matter of looking at a known and fixed offset. However, nvmem
layouts have been recently introduced to cope with more advanced
situations, where the offset and size of the cells is not known in
advance or is dynamic. When using layouts, more advanced parsers are
used by the kernel in order to give direct access to the content of each
cell, regardless of its position/size in the underlying
device. Unfortunately, these information are not accessible by users,
unless by fully re-implementing the parser logic in userland.

Let's expose the cells and their content through sysfs to avoid these
situations. Of course the relevant NVMEM sysfs Kconfig option must be
enabled for this support to be available.

Not all nvmem devices expose cells. Indeed, the .bin_attrs attribute
group member will be filled at runtime only when relevant and will
remain empty otherwise. In this case, as the cells attribute group will
be empty, it will not lead to any additional folder/file creation.

Exposed cells are read-only. There is, in practice, everything in the
core to support a write path, but as I don't see any need for that, I
prefer to keep the interface simple (and probably safer). The interface
is documented as being in the "testing" state which means we can later
add a write attribute if though relevant.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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nvmem: core: Rework layouts to become regular devices

Current layout support was initially written without modules support in
mind. When the requirement for module support rose, the existing base
wa

nvmem: core: Rework layouts to become regular devices

Current layout support was initially written without modules support in
mind. When the requirement for module support rose, the existing base
was improved to adopt modularization support, but kind of a design flaw
was introduced. With the existing implementation, when a storage device
registers into NVMEM, the core tries to hook a layout (if any) and
populates its cells immediately. This means, if the hardware description
expects a layout to be hooked up, but no driver was provided for that,
the storage medium will fail to probe and try later from
scratch. Even if we consider that the hardware description shall be
correct, we could still probe the storage device (especially if it
contains the rootfs).

One way to overcome this situation is to consider the layouts as
devices, and leverage the native notifier mechanism. When a new NVMEM
device is registered, we can populate its nvmem-layout child, if any,
and wait for the matching to be done in order to get the cells (the
waiting can be easily done with the NVMEM notifiers). If the layout
driver is compiled as a module, it should automatically be loaded. This
way, there is no strong order to enforce, any NVMEM device creation
or NVMEM layout driver insertion will be observed as a new event which
may lead to the creation of additional cells, without disturbing the
probes with costly (and sometimes endless) deferrals.

In order to achieve that goal we create a new bus for the nvmem-layouts
with minimal logic to match nvmem-layout devices with nvmem-layout
drivers. All this infrastructure code is created in the layouts.c file.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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nvmem: Move and rename ->fixup_cell_info()

This hook is meant to be used by any provider and instantiating a layout
just for this is useless. Let's instead move this hook to the nvmem
device and add

nvmem: Move and rename ->fixup_cell_info()

This hook is meant to be used by any provider and instantiating a layout
just for this is useless. Let's instead move this hook to the nvmem
device and add it to the config structure to be easily shared by the
providers.

While at moving this hook, rename it ->fixup_dt_cell_info() to clarify
its main intended purpose.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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nvmem: Create a header for internal sharing

Before adding all the NVMEM layout bus infrastructure to the core, let's
move the main nvmem_device structure in an internal header, only
available to the

nvmem: Create a header for internal sharing

Before adding all the NVMEM layout bus infrastructure to the core, let's
move the main nvmem_device structure in an internal header, only
available to the core. This way all the additional code can be added in
a dedicated file in order to keep the current core file tidy.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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