Re: [PATCH v2 02/25] mtd: add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Sun Nov 18 2018 - 11:06:33 EST


On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:01:10 +0100
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx>
>
> Allow drivers that use the nvmem API to read data stored on MTD devices.
> For this the mtd devices are registered as read-only NVMEM providers.
>
> We don't support device tree systems for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx>
> [Bartosz:
> - include linux/nvmem-provider.h
> - set the name of the nvmem provider
> - set no_of_node to true in nvmem_config
> - don't check the return value of nvmem_unregister() - it cannot fail
> - tweaked the commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To the person taking this patch (Greg?): I'll need an immutable tag,
just in case we end up with other changes in mtdcore.c for this release.

> ---
> drivers/mtd/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/mtd/mtd.h | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> index c77f537323ec..efbe7a6f1d8f 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
> menuconfig MTD
> tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
> + imply NVMEM
> help
> Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often
> used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> index 97ac219c082e..5f1053d995b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
> #include <linux/reboot.h>
> #include <linux/leds.h>
> #include <linux/debugfs.h>
> +#include <linux/nvmem-provider.h>
>
> #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
> #include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
> @@ -488,6 +489,50 @@ int mtd_pairing_groups(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_pairing_groups);
>
> +static int mtd_nvmem_reg_read(void *priv, unsigned int offset,
> + void *val, size_t bytes)
> +{
> + struct mtd_info *mtd = priv;
> + size_t retlen;
> + int err;
> +
> + err = mtd_read(mtd, offset, bytes, &retlen, val);
> + if (err && err != -EUCLEAN)
> + return err;
> +
> + return retlen == bytes ? 0 : -EIO;
> +}
> +
> +static int mtd_nvmem_add(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> +{
> + struct nvmem_config config = {};
> +
> + config.dev = &mtd->dev;
> + config.name = mtd->name;
> + config.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> + config.reg_read = mtd_nvmem_reg_read;
> + config.size = mtd->size;
> + config.word_size = 1;
> + config.stride = 1;
> + config.read_only = true;
> + config.root_only = true;
> + config.no_of_node = true;
> + config.priv = mtd;
> +
> + mtd->nvmem = nvmem_register(&config);
> + if (IS_ERR(mtd->nvmem)) {
> + /* Just ignore if there is no NVMEM support in the kernel */
> + if (PTR_ERR(mtd->nvmem) == -ENOSYS) {
> + mtd->nvmem = NULL;
> + } else {
> + dev_err(&mtd->dev, "Failed to register NVMEM device\n");
> + return PTR_ERR(mtd->nvmem);
> + }
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static struct dentry *dfs_dir_mtd;
>
> /**
> @@ -570,6 +615,11 @@ int add_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> if (error)
> goto fail_added;
>
> + /* Add the nvmem provider */
> + error = mtd_nvmem_add(mtd);
> + if (error)
> + goto fail_nvmem_add;
> +
> if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dfs_dir_mtd)) {
> mtd->dbg.dfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&mtd->dev), dfs_dir_mtd);
> if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mtd->dbg.dfs_dir)) {
> @@ -595,6 +645,8 @@ int add_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> __module_get(THIS_MODULE);
> return 0;
>
> +fail_nvmem_add:
> + device_unregister(&mtd->dev);
> fail_added:
> of_node_put(mtd_get_of_node(mtd));
> idr_remove(&mtd_idr, i);
> @@ -637,6 +689,10 @@ int del_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> mtd->index, mtd->name, mtd->usecount);
> ret = -EBUSY;
> } else {
> + /* Try to remove the NVMEM provider */
> + if (mtd->nvmem)
> + nvmem_unregister(mtd->nvmem);
> +
> device_unregister(&mtd->dev);
>
> idr_remove(&mtd_idr, mtd->index);
> diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
> index cd0be91bdefa..545070c2ee64 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
> #include <linux/notifier.h>
> #include <linux/device.h>
> #include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/nvmem-provider.h>
>
> #include <mtd/mtd-abi.h>
>
> @@ -341,6 +342,7 @@ struct mtd_info {
> struct device dev;
> int usecount;
> struct mtd_debug_info dbg;
> + struct nvmem_device *nvmem;
> };
>
> int mtd_ooblayout_ecc(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,