netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 02/29] Documentation: nvmem: document lookup entries

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sat, 1 Sep 2018 15:11:05 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Naren <naren.kernel@...il.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        Sven Van Asbroeck <svendev@...x.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Alban Bedel <albeu@...e.fr>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:MEMORY TECHNOLOGY..." <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux-OMAP <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        briannorris@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/29] Documentation: nvmem: document lookup entries

2018-08-31 22:30 GMT+02:00 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
>>
>> Describe the usage of nvmem cell lookup tables.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
>> index 8d8d8f58f96f..9d5e3ca2b4f3 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
>> @@ -58,6 +58,34 @@ static int qfprom_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>  It is mandatory that the NVMEM provider has a regmap associated with its
>>  struct device. Failure to do would return error code from nvmem_register().
>>
>> +Additionally it is possible to create nvmem cell lookup entries and register
>> +them with the nvmem framework from machine code as shown in the example below:
>
> Maybe it's partially a lacking in the existing documentation, but what
> does the "name" and the "nvmem_name" mean here? AFAICT, "nvmem_name" is
> akin to a provider identifier; and "name" is a key to match with the
> consumer. It feels like this should be in either the header / kerneldoc
> or this file. Or maybe both.
>
> Does this mean there can only be a single "mac-address" cell in the
> system? I have systems where there are multiple MACs provided in flash
> storage, and we need to map them to ethernet0 and ethernet1. Is that
> supported here?
>

This is a shortcoming of the nvmem subsystem we discussed under
another patch in this series with Boris and Srinivas. I will try to
post a series addressing this next week. Basically there's a global
list of nvmem cells referenced only by name and unless you're using DT
you can only have a single cell with given name. I will address it by
introducing the standard dev_id/con_id resource association.

Bart

> Brian
>
>> +static struct nvmem_cell_lookup foobar_lookup = {
>> +     .info = {
>> +             .name = "mac-address",
>> +             .offset = 0xd000,
>> +             .bytes = ERH_ALEN,
>> +     },
>> +     .nvmem_name = "foobar",
>> +};
>> +
>> +static void foobar_register(void)
>> +{
>> +     ...
>> +     nvmem_add_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
>> +     ...
>> +}
>> +
>> +A lookup entry table can be later removed if needed:
>> +
>> +static void foobar_fini(void)
>> +{
>> +     ...
>> +     nvmem_del_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
>> +     ...
>> +}
>> +
>>  NVMEM Consumers
>>  +++++++++++++++
>>
>> --
>> 2.18.0
>>