[PATCH] nvmem: brcm_nvram: store a copy of NVRAM content

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 14:26:50 PDT 2023


On 9/13/23 23:49, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> 
> This driver uses MMIO access for reading NVRAM from a flash device.
> Underneath there is a flash controller that reads data and provides
> mapping window.
> 
> Using MMIO interface affects controller configuration and may break real
> controller driver. It was reported by multiple users of devices with
> NVRAM stored on NAND.
> 
> Modify driver to read & cache all NVRAM content during init and use that
> copy to provide NVMEM data when requested.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/CACna6rwf3_9QVjYcM+847biTX=K0EoWXuXcSMkJO1Vy_5vmVqA@mail.gmail.com/
> Cc: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli at broadcom.com>
> Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden at broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> ---
[snip]
> -	priv->base = devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0, &res);
> -	if (IS_ERR(priv->base))
> -		return PTR_ERR(priv->base);
> +	base = devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0, &res);
> +	if (IS_ERR(base))
> +		return PTR_ERR(base);
> +
> +	priv->size = resource_size(res);
> +
> +	priv->data = devm_kzalloc(dev, priv->size, GFP_KERNEL);

These can conceivably quite big data structures, how about using kvmalloc()?
-- 
Florian




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