Subject: [PATCH v2 13/16] nvmem: add support for cell lookups from machine code

From: [email-masked] (Boris Brezillon)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:23:24 +0200

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:17:48 +0200
Bartosz Golaszewski <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 2018-09-10 9:32 GMT+02:00 Srinivas Kandagatla <[email-masked]>:
> >
> >
> > On 07/09/18 11:07, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:  
> >>
> >> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email-masked]>
> >>
> >> Add a way for machine code users to associate devices with nvmem cells.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email-masked]>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/nvmem/core.c          | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >>   include/linux/nvmem-machine.h |  16 ++++
> >>   2 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> >> index da7a9d5beb33..9e2f9c993a07 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> >> @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ static DEFINE_IDA(nvmem_ida);
> >>   static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvmem_cell_mutex);
> >>   static LIST_HEAD(nvmem_cell_tables);
> >>   +static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvmem_lookup_mutex);
> >> +static LIST_HEAD(nvmem_lookup_list);
> >> +
> >>   static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(nvmem_notifier);
> >>     #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
> >> @@ -285,6 +288,18 @@ static struct nvmem_device *of_nvmem_find(struct
> >> device_node *nvmem_np)
> >>         return to_nvmem_device(d);
> >>   }
> >>   +static struct nvmem_device *nvmem_find(const char *name)
> >> +{
> >> +       struct device *d;
> >> +
> >> +       d = bus_find_device_by_name(&nvmem_bus_type, NULL, name);
> >> +
> >> +       if (!d)
> >> +               return NULL;
> >> +
> >> +       return to_nvmem_device(d);
> >> +}
> >> +  
> >
> > This is removed and added back in same patch, you should consider
> > positioning the caller if possible to avoid any un-necessary changes.
> >  
> >>   static void nvmem_cell_drop(struct nvmem_cell *cell)
> >>   {
> >>         mutex_lock(&nvmem_mutex);
> >> @@ -421,6 +436,21 @@ nvmem_find_cell_by_index(struct nvmem_device *nvmem,
> >> int index)
> >>         return cell;
> >>   }
> >>   +static struct nvmem_cell *
> >> +nvmem_cell_get_from_lookup(struct device *dev, const char *con_id)
> >> +{
> >> +       struct nvmem_cell *cell = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> >> +       struct nvmem_cell_lookup *lookup;
> >> +       struct nvmem_device *nvmem;
> >> +       const char *dev_id;
> >> +
> >> +       if (!dev)
> >> +               return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> >> +
> >> +       dev_id = dev_name(dev);
> >> +
> >> +       mutex_lock(&nvmem_lookup_mutex);
> >> +
> >> +       list_for_each_entry(lookup, &nvmem_lookup_list, node) {
> >> +               if ((strcmp(lookup->dev_id, dev_id) == 0) &&
> >> +                   (strcmp(lookup->con_id, con_id) == 0)) {
> >> +                       /* This is the right entry. */
> >> +                       nvmem = __nvmem_device_get(NULL,
> >> lookup->nvmem_name);
> >> +                       if (!nvmem) {
> >> +                               /* Provider may not be registered yet. */
> >> +                               cell = ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> >> +                               goto out;
> >> +                       }
> >> +
> >> +                       cell = nvmem_find_cell_by_name(nvmem,
> >> +                                                      lookup->cell_name);
> >> +                       if (!cell)
> >> +                               goto out;  
> >
> > Here nvmem refcount has already increased, you should probably fix this!  
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> >>
> >> +               }
> >> +       }
> >> +
> >> +out:
> >> +       mutex_unlock(&nvmem_lookup_mutex);
> >> +       return cell;
> >> +}  
> >
> >
> > ...
> >  
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/nvmem-machine.h b/include/linux/nvmem-machine.h  
> >
> >
> > Should be part of nvmem-consumer.h.
> >  
> 
> If anything, this should probably go to nvmem-provider.h.

Well, if we get rid of nvmem-machine.h, the cell-lookup stuff
should go in nvmem-consumer.h not nvmem-provider.h. On the other hand,
everything that is related to cell creation should be placed in
nvmem-provider.h.

> But I like
> the gpiolib way of putting machine-specific code into a separate
> header. Most systems are not interested in these definitions anyway.
> IMO this is a valid use case where creating a new header makes sense.