[RFC next 0/2] dm: lvm: Initial Logical Volume Management support

[Tobias Waldekranz]

This is an initial RFC on the addition of LVM support to Barebox.

Avid readers of Barebox lore might remember me describing LVM support
as a key part of my roadmap of how I would like to boot future
versions of Infix - a network centric OS I work on - in the original
device mapper series. [1]

I have finally gotten some time to get this in a presentable state.

Example session:

    wkz at spa:~/src/github.com/barebox/barebox$ ./barebox -i disk0=infix-x86_64.disk,blkdev
    [...]
    barebox at Sandbox:/ lvm info
    VG "internal":
      UUID:    sN8htx-oD18-wHWH-SuCU-1EWy-th1l-5WPU6j
      SeqNum:  1
      Size:    132 MiB (1 MiB extents)
      #PV:     1
      #LV:     1
      PV disk0.2:
        UUID:  6VHjVF-WVt7-Gk4Y-oTrK-lsgY-ve7N-GJ0CUn
        Size:  134 MiB
      LV "infix-x86_64.raw":
        UUID:  Xp76Ig-9XXj-aBfK-Xv2U-rbsY-nEWX-omt4Bo
        Type:  linear
        Size:  132 MiB
    barebox at Sandbox:/ lvm activate internal infix-x86_64.raw
    [GPT warnings...]
    Created internal-infix-x86_64.raw
    barebox at Sandbox:/ ls /mnt/internal-infix-x86_64.raw.0/
    mounted /dev/internal-infix-x86_64.raw.0 on /mnt/internal-infix-x86_64.raw.0
    bin       boot      cfg       config    dev       etc       home
    lib       lib64     loader    log       media     mnt       opt
    proc      root      run       sbin      srv       sys       tmp
    usr       var
    barebox at Sandbox:/

If the overall structure is OK with the community and maintainers,
then the biggest remaining issue is testing. I have been surprised to
learn that the standard LVM tools will not operate on disk images
(without loopback mounting). Nor does there seem to be any other tools
out there that allows you to provision PVs/VGs/LVs without having them
"live" and attached to the host system. If there are any suggestions
here they would be very welcome!

Additionally, I would like to add some fuzz testing to the metadata
parser.

Looking forward to your feedback!

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/barebox/20250828150637.2222474-1-tobias@waldekranz.com/

Tobias Waldekranz (2):
  dm: lvm: Initial Logical Volume Management support
  commands: lvm: inspect VGs, activate LVs

 commands/Kconfig                |  11 +
 commands/Makefile               |   1 +
 commands/lvm.c                  | 264 ++++++++++++
 drivers/block/dm/Kconfig        |   9 +
 drivers/block/dm/Makefile       |   1 +
 drivers/block/dm/lvm/Makefile   |   2 +
 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm-core.c | 712 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm-md.c   | 396 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm-md.h   | 106 +++++
 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm2.h     |  54 +++
 include/lvm.h                   | 100 +++++
 11 files changed, 1656 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 commands/lvm.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/block/dm/lvm/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm-core.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm-md.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm-md.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/block/dm/lvm/lvm2.h
 create mode 100644 include/lvm.h

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