Re: [RESEND PATCH v10] firmware: google: Implement cbmem in sysfs driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 02:55:51PM -0600, Jack Rosenthal wrote:
> The CBMEM area is a downward-growing memory region used by coreboot to
> dynamically allocate tagged data structures ("CBMEM entries") that
> remain resident during boot.
> 
> This implements a driver which exports access to the CBMEM entries
> via sysfs under /sys/firmware/coreboot/cbmem/<id>.
> 
> This implementation is quite versatile.  Examples of how it could be
> used are given below:
> 
> * Tools like util/cbmem from the coreboot tree could use this driver
>   instead of finding CBMEM in /dev/mem directly.  Alternatively,
>   firmware developers debugging an issue may find the sysfs interface
>   more ergonomic than the cbmem tool and choose to use it directly.
> 
> * The crossystem tool, which exposes verified boot variables, can use
>   this driver to read the vboot work buffer.
> 
> * Tools which read the BIOS SPI flash (e.g., flashrom) can find the
>   flash layout in CBMEM directly, which is significantly faster than
>   searching the flash directly.
> 
> Write access is provided to all CBMEM regions via
> /sys/firmware/coreboot/cbmem/<id>/mem, as the existing cbmem tooling
> updates this memory region, and envisioned use cases with crossystem
> can benefit from updating memory regions.
> 
> Link: https://issuetracker.google.com/239604743
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
> Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
> Tested-by: Jack Rosenthal <jrosenth@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jack Rosenthal <jrosenth@chromium.org>
> ---
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-coreboot       |  49 ++++
>  drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig               |   8 +
>  drivers/firmware/google/Makefile              |   3 +
>  drivers/firmware/google/cbmem.c               | 225 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c      |  10 +
>  drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h      |  16 ++
>  6 files changed, 311 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-coreboot
>  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/google/cbmem.c
> 

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