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From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/29] nvmem: add support for cell lookups
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:48:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <626e6122-2e58-3317-89b2-77959c9310f7@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMRc=MeALxpyBQhWxGPt9BubO_ZwKGih1d8zhRzFYZ0+3kHFAA@mail.gmail.com>



On 28/08/18 15:41, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2018-08-28 15:45 GMT+02:00 Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>:
>>
>>
...
>>> I would like to support an additional use case here: the provider is
>>> generic and is not aware of its cells at all. Since the only way of
>>> defining nvmem cells is through DT or nvmem_config, we lack a way to
>>> allow machine code to define cells without the provider code being
>>> aware.
>>
>>
>> machine driver should be able to do
>> nvmem_device_get()
>> nvmem_add_cells()
>>
> 
> Indeed, I missed the fact that you can retrieve the nvmem device by
> name. Except that we cannot know that the nvmem provider has been
> registered yet when calling nvmem_device_get(). This could potentially
> be solved by my other patch that adds notifiers to nvmem, but it would
> require much more boilerplate code in every board file. I think that
> removing nvmem_cell_info from nvmem_config and having external cell
> definitions would be cleaner.

Yes, notifiers would work!

...
>>>
>>> Yes, I would like to rework nvmem a bit. I don't see any non-DT users
>>> defining nvmem-cells using nvmem_config. I think that what we need is
>>> a way of specifying cell config outside of nvmem providers in some
>>> kind of structures. These tables would reference the provider by name
>>> and define the cells. Then we would have an additional lookup
>>> structure which would associate the consumer (by dev_id and con_id,
>>> where dev_id could optionally be NULL and where we would fall back to
>>> using con_id only) and the nvmem provider + cell together. Similarly
>>> to how GPIO consumers are associated with the gpiochip and hwnum. How
>>> does it sound?
>>
>> Yes, sounds good.
>>
>> Correct me if am wrong!
>> You should be able to add the new cells using struct nvmem_cell_info and add
>> them to particular provider using nvmem_add_cells().
>>
>> Sounds like thats exactly what nvmem_add_lookup_table() would look like.
>>
>> We should add new nvmem_device_cell_get(nvmem, conn_id) which would return
>> nvmem cell which is specific to the provider. This cell can be used by the
>> machine driver to read/write.
> 
> Except that we could do it lazily - when the nvmem provider actually
> gets registered instead of doing it right away and risking that the
> device isn't even there yet.
> 
Yes, it makes more sense to do it once the provider is actually present!

>>
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW: of_nvmem_cell_get() seems to always allocate an nvmem_cell
>>>>> instance even if the cell for this node was already added to the nvmem
>>>>> device.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hope you got the reason why of_nvmem_cell_get() always allocates new
>>>> instance for every get!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I admit I didn't test it, but just from reading the code it seems like
>>> in nvmem_cell_get() for DT-users we'll always get to
>>> of_nvmem_cell_get() and in there we always end up calling line 873:
>>> cell = kzalloc(sizeof(*cell), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>
>> That is correct, this cell is created when we do a get and release when we
>> do a put().
>>
> 
> Shouldn't we add the cell to the list, and check first if it's there
> and only create it if not?
Yes I agree, duplicate entry checks are missing!

--srini
> 
> Bart
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-28 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-10  8:04 [PATCH v2 00/29] at24: remove at24_platform_data Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:04 ` [PATCH v2 01/29] nvmem: add support for cell lookups Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-24 15:08   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-24 15:27     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-08-25  6:27       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-27  8:56         ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-27  9:00           ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-27 13:37             ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-27 14:01               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-28 10:15               ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-28 11:56                 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-28 13:45                   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-28 14:41                     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-28 14:48                       ` Srinivas Kandagatla [this message]
2018-08-28 14:53                       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-28 15:09                         ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:04 ` [PATCH v2 02/29] Documentation: nvmem: document lookup entries Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-31 20:30   ` Brian Norris
2018-09-01 13:11     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 03/29] nvmem: add a notifier chain Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:33   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 04/29] nvmem: provide nvmem_dev_name() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:10   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 05/29] nvmem: remove the name field from struct nvmem_device Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:33   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 06/29] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-17 16:27   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-19 11:31     ` Alban
2018-08-19 16:46       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-20 10:43         ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-20 18:20           ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-20 18:50             ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-20 19:06               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-20 21:27             ` Alban
2018-08-21  5:07               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21  9:50             ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21  9:56               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 10:11                 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 10:43                   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 11:39               ` Alban
2018-08-21 12:00                 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 13:01                   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-23 10:29                     ` Alban
2018-08-24 14:39                       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-28 10:20                       ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-20 22:53         ` Alban
2018-08-21  5:44           ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21  9:38             ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 11:31               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 13:34                 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 13:37                   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 13:57                     ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 12:27             ` Alban
2018-08-21 12:57               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 13:57                 ` Alban
2018-08-21 14:26                   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 14:33                     ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 07/29] ARM: davinci: dm365-evm: use nvmem lookup for mac address Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 08/29] ARM: davinci: dm644-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 09/29] ARM: davinci: dm646x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 10/29] ARM: davinci: da830-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 11/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: add nvmem cells lookup entries Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 12/29] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: use nvmem lookup for mac address Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 13/29] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove unnecessary include Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 14/29] net: simplify eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10 14:39   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-10 16:17     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 15/29] net: split eth_platform_get_mac_address() into subroutines Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-31 19:54   ` Brian Norris
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 16/29] net: add support for nvmem to eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 17/29] net: davinci_emac: use eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 18/29] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove dead MTD code Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 19/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: don't read the MAC address from machine code Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 20/29] ARM: davinci: dm365-evm: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 21/29] ARM: davinci: da830-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 22/29] ARM: davinci: dm644x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 23/29] ARM: davinci: dm646x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 24/29] ARM: davinci: sffsdr: fix the at24 eeprom device name Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 25/29] ARM: davinci: sffsdr: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 26/29] ARM: davinci: remove dead code related to MAC address reading Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 27/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: use nvmem notifiers Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 28/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 29/29] eeprom: at24: kill at24_platform_data Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:41 ` [PATCH v2 00/29] at24: remove at24_platform_data Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-31 19:46 ` Brian Norris
2018-10-03 20:15   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-10-03 20:30     ` Lukas Wunner
2018-10-03 21:04     ` Florian Fainelli
2018-10-04 11:06       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-10-04 13:58         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-04 14:35           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-10-04 14:38             ` Arnd Bergmann

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