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 <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-7-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
index 36415a602d9e..6fe65b35ea97 100644
--- a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
+++ b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_NVMEM_PROVIDER_H
 #define _LINUX_NVMEM_PROVIDER_H
 
+#include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/device/driver.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
@@ -158,12 +159,11 @@ struct nvmem_cell_table {
 /**
  * struct nvmem_layout - NVMEM layout definitions
  *
- * @name:		Layout name.
- * @of_match_table:	Open firmware match table.
- * @add_cells:		Called to populate the layout using
- *			nvmem_add_one_cell().
- * @owner:		Pointer to struct module.
- * @node:		List node.
+ * @dev:		Device-model layout device.
+ * @nvmem:		The underlying NVMEM device
+ * @add_cells:		Will be called if a nvmem device is found which
+ *			has this layout. The function will add layout
+ *			specific cells with nvmem_add_one_cell().
  *
  * A nvmem device can hold a well defined structure which can just be
  * evaluated during runtime. For example a TLV list, or a list of "name=val"
@@ -171,13 +171,15 @@ struct nvmem_cell_table {
  * cells.
  */
 struct nvmem_layout {
-	const char *name;
-	const struct of_device_id *of_match_table;
+	struct device dev;
+	struct nvmem_device *nvmem;
 	int (*add_cells)(struct device *dev, struct nvmem_device *nvmem);
+};
 
-	/* private */
-	struct module *owner;
-	struct list_head node;
+struct nvmem_layout_driver {
+	struct device_driver driver;
+	int (*probe)(struct nvmem_layout *layout);
+	void (*remove)(struct nvmem_layout *layout);
 };
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NVMEM)
@@ -194,11 +196,15 @@ void nvmem_del_cell_table(struct nvmem_cell_table *table);
 int nvmem_add_one_cell(struct nvmem_device *nvmem,
 		       const struct nvmem_cell_info *info);
 
-int __nvmem_layout_register(struct nvmem_layout *layout, struct module *owner);
-#define nvmem_layout_register(layout) \
-	__nvmem_layout_register(layout, THIS_MODULE)
+int nvmem_layout_register(struct nvmem_layout *layout);
 void nvmem_layout_unregister(struct nvmem_layout *layout);
 
+int nvmem_layout_driver_register(struct nvmem_layout_driver *drv);
+void nvmem_layout_driver_unregister(struct nvmem_layout_driver *drv);
+#define module_nvmem_layout_driver(__nvmem_layout_driver)		\
+	module_driver(__nvmem_layout_driver, nvmem_layout_driver_register, \
+		      nvmem_layout_driver_unregister)
+
 const void *nvmem_layout_get_match_data(struct nvmem_device *nvmem,
 					struct nvmem_layout *layout);
 
@@ -262,8 +268,4 @@ static inline struct device_node *of_nvmem_layout_get_container(struct nvmem_dev
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_NVMEM && CONFIG_OF */
 
-#define module_nvmem_layout_driver(__layout_driver)		\
-	module_driver(__layout_driver, nvmem_layout_register,	\
-		      nvmem_layout_unregister)
-
 #endif  /* ifndef _LINUX_NVMEM_PROVIDER_H */