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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/nvmem, branch v6.8-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2024-01-18T00:47:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-18T00:47:17+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc and other driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of char/misc and other driver subsystem changes
  for 6.8-rc1.

  Other than lots of binder driver changes (as you can see by the merge
  conflicts) included in here are:

   - lots of iio driver updates and additions

   - spmi driver updates

   - eeprom driver updates

   - firmware driver updates

   - ocxl driver updates

   - mhi driver updates

   - w1 driver updates

   - nvmem driver updates

   - coresight driver updates

   - platform driver remove callback api changes

   - tags.sh script updates

   - bus_type constant marking cleanups

   - lots of other small driver updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (341 commits)
  android: removed duplicate linux/errno
  uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open
  drivers: soc: xilinx: add check for platform
  firmware: xilinx: Export function to use in other module
  scripts/tags.sh: remove find_sources
  scripts/tags.sh: use -n to test archinclude
  scripts/tags.sh: add local annotation
  scripts/tags.sh: use more portable -path instead of -wholename
  scripts/tags.sh: Update comment (addition of gtags)
  firmware: zynqmp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: stratix10-svc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: stratix10-rsu: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: raspberrypi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: mtk-adsp-ipc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: imx-dsp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: coreboot_table: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: arm_scpi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: arm_scmi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  ...
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Pull char/misc and other driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of char/misc and other driver subsystem changes
  for 6.8-rc1.

  Other than lots of binder driver changes (as you can see by the merge
  conflicts) included in here are:

   - lots of iio driver updates and additions

   - spmi driver updates

   - eeprom driver updates

   - firmware driver updates

   - ocxl driver updates

   - mhi driver updates

   - w1 driver updates

   - nvmem driver updates

   - coresight driver updates

   - platform driver remove callback api changes

   - tags.sh script updates

   - bus_type constant marking cleanups

   - lots of other small driver updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (341 commits)
  android: removed duplicate linux/errno
  uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open
  drivers: soc: xilinx: add check for platform
  firmware: xilinx: Export function to use in other module
  scripts/tags.sh: remove find_sources
  scripts/tags.sh: use -n to test archinclude
  scripts/tags.sh: add local annotation
  scripts/tags.sh: use more portable -path instead of -wholename
  scripts/tags.sh: Update comment (addition of gtags)
  firmware: zynqmp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: stratix10-svc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: stratix10-rsu: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: raspberrypi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: mtk-adsp-ipc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: imx-dsp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: coreboot_table: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: arm_scpi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  firmware: arm_scmi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  ...
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<entry>
<title>nvmem: u-boot-env: improve coding style</title>
<updated>2024-01-04T16:01:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>rafal@milecki.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-21T17:34:20+00:00</published>
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1. Prefer kzalloc() over kcalloc()
   See memory-allocation.rst which says: "to be on the safe side it's
   best to use routines that set memory to zero, like kzalloc()"
2. Drop dev_err() for u_boot_env_add_cells() fail
   It can fail only on -ENOMEM. We don't want to print error then.
3. Add extra "crc32_addr" variable
   It makes code reading header's crc32 easier to understand / review.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-5-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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1. Prefer kzalloc() over kcalloc()
   See memory-allocation.rst which says: "to be on the safe side it's
   best to use routines that set memory to zero, like kzalloc()"
2. Drop dev_err() for u_boot_env_add_cells() fail
   It can fail only on -ENOMEM. We don't want to print error then.
3. Add extra "crc32_addr" variable
   It makes code reading header's crc32 easier to understand / review.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-5-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nvmem: u-boot-env: use nvmem device helpers</title>
<updated>2024-01-04T16:01:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>rafal@milecki.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-21T17:34:19+00:00</published>
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Use nvmem_dev_size() and nvmem_device_read() to make this driver less
mtd dependent.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-4-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Use nvmem_dev_size() and nvmem_device_read() to make this driver less
mtd dependent.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-4-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nvmem: u-boot-env: use nvmem_add_one_cell() nvmem subsystem helper</title>
<updated>2024-01-04T16:01:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>rafal@milecki.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-21T17:34:18+00:00</published>
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Simplify adding NVMEM cells.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-3-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Simplify adding NVMEM cells.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-3-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nvmem: core: add nvmem_dev_size() helper</title>
<updated>2024-01-04T16:01:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>rafal@milecki.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-21T17:34:17+00:00</published>
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This is required by layouts that need to read whole NVMEM content. It's
especially useful for NVMEM devices without hardcoded layout (like
U-Boot environment data block).

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-2-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This is required by layouts that need to read whole NVMEM content. It's
especially useful for NVMEM devices without hardcoded layout (like
U-Boot environment data block).

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221173421.13737-2-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nvmem: drop nvmem_layout_get_match_data()</title>
<updated>2024-01-04T16:01:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>rafal@milecki.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-19T12:01:04+00:00</published>
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Thanks for layouts refactoring we now have "struct device" associated
with layout. Also its OF pointer points directly to the "nvmem-layout"
DT node.

All it takes to get match data is a generic of_device_get_match_data().

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219120104.3422-2-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Thanks for layouts refactoring we now have "struct device" associated
with layout. Also its OF pointer points directly to the "nvmem-layout"
DT node.

All it takes to get match data is a generic of_device_get_match_data().

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219120104.3422-2-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nvmem: layouts: refactor .add_cells() callback arguments</title>
<updated>2024-01-04T16:01:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>rafal@milecki.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-19T12:01:03+00:00</published>
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Simply pass whole "struct nvmem_layout" instead of single variables.
There is nothing in "struct nvmem_layout" that we have to hide from
layout drivers. They also access it during .probe() and .remove().

Thanks to this change:

1. API gets more consistent
   All layouts drivers callbacks get the same argument

2. Layouts get correct device
   Before this change NVMEM core code was passing NVMEM device instead
   of layout device. That resulted in:
   * Confusing prints
   * Calling devm_*() helpers on wrong device
   * Helpers like of_device_get_match_data() dereferencing NULLs

3. It gets possible to get match data
   First of all nvmem_layout_get_match_data() requires passing "struct
   nvmem_layout" which .add_cells() callback didn't have before this. It
   doesn't matter much as it's rather useless now anyway (and will be
   dropped).
   What's more important however is that of_device_get_match_data() can
   be used now thanks to owning a proper device pointer.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219120104.3422-1-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Simply pass whole "struct nvmem_layout" instead of single variables.
There is nothing in "struct nvmem_layout" that we have to hide from
layout drivers. They also access it during .probe() and .remove().

Thanks to this change:

1. API gets more consistent
   All layouts drivers callbacks get the same argument

2. Layouts get correct device
   Before this change NVMEM core code was passing NVMEM device instead
   of layout device. That resulted in:
   * Confusing prints
   * Calling devm_*() helpers on wrong device
   * Helpers like of_device_get_match_data() dereferencing NULLs

3. It gets possible to get match data
   First of all nvmem_layout_get_match_data() requires passing "struct
   nvmem_layout" which .add_cells() callback didn't have before this. It
   doesn't matter much as it's rather useless now anyway (and will be
   dropped).
   What's more important however is that of_device_get_match_data() can
   be used now thanks to owning a proper device pointer.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219120104.3422-1-zajec5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nvmem: stm32: add support for STM32MP25 BSEC to control OTP data</title>
<updated>2023-12-15T12:30:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Delaunay</name>
<email>patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-15T11:15:36+00:00</published>
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On STM32MP25, OTP area may be read/written by using BSEC (boot, security
and OTP control). The BSEC internal peripheral is only managed by the
secure world.

The 12 Kbits of OTP (effective) are organized into the following regions:
- lower OTP (OTP0 to OTP127) = 4096 lower OTP bits,
  bitwise (1-bit) programmable
- mid OTP (OTP128 to OTP255) = 4096 middle OTP bits,
  bulk (32-bit) programmable
- upper OTP (OTP256 to OTP383) = 4096 upper OTP bits,
  bulk (32-bit) programmable,
  only accessible when BSEC is in closed state.

As HWKEY and ECIES key are only accessible by ROM code;
only 368 OTP words are managed in this driver (OTP0 to OTP267).

This patch adds the STM32MP25 configuration for reading and writing
the OTP data using the OP-TEE BSEC TA services.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay &lt;patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-11-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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On STM32MP25, OTP area may be read/written by using BSEC (boot, security
and OTP control). The BSEC internal peripheral is only managed by the
secure world.

The 12 Kbits of OTP (effective) are organized into the following regions:
- lower OTP (OTP0 to OTP127) = 4096 lower OTP bits,
  bitwise (1-bit) programmable
- mid OTP (OTP128 to OTP255) = 4096 middle OTP bits,
  bulk (32-bit) programmable
- upper OTP (OTP256 to OTP383) = 4096 upper OTP bits,
  bulk (32-bit) programmable,
  only accessible when BSEC is in closed state.

As HWKEY and ECIES key are only accessible by ROM code;
only 368 OTP words are managed in this driver (OTP0 to OTP267).

This patch adds the STM32MP25 configuration for reading and writing
the OTP data using the OP-TEE BSEC TA services.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay &lt;patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-11-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nvmem: core: Expose cells through sysfs</title>
<updated>2023-12-15T12:30:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miquel Raynal</name>
<email>miquel.raynal@bootlin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-15T11:15:34+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wenst@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-9-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai &lt;wenst@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-9-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>nvmem: core: Rework layouts to become regular devices</title>
<updated>2023-12-15T12:30:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miquel Raynal</name>
<email>miquel.raynal@bootlin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-15T11:15:32+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-7-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;rafal@milecki.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-7-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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