[PATCH v2 0/4] Bootcount driver using NVMEM cell as backend.

Nandor Han
2021-04-28T13:50:55Z

Description
-----------
Implement a bootcount (1) related driver that uses
NVMEM as a backend. The patchset will also update the
`snvs_lpgpr` driver to support 2 bytes NVMEM cells.

1. https://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit

Testing
-------
Hardware: i.MX6sx evaluation board
Kernel: linux-imx-5.4.24

1. Configure the bootcount hardware in DT to use a NVMEM cell provided
by `snvs_lpgpr` driver as backend.
e.g. This will configure a 4 bytes long NVMEM cell
```
bootcount_regs: bootcount-snvs-regs@0 {
reg = <0x0 0x04>;
};
```

2. Record the current NVMEM cell content:
```
~ # hexdump -C
/sys/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20cc000.snvs/20cc000.snvs:snvs-lpgpr/20cc000.snvs:snvs-lpgpr0/nvmem
00000000 00 00 01 b0 |....|
00000004
```

3. Write the bootcount and check that is successful: PASS
```
~ # echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/bootcount-nvmem/bootcount/value
bootcount: Write regval: 0xb0010001
~ # hexdump -C
/sys/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20cc000.snvs/20cc000.snvs:snvs-lpgpr/20cc000.snvs:snvs-lpgpr0/nvmem
00000000 01 00 01 b0 |....|
00000004
```

Note: similar tests were done also for 2 bytes NVMEM cell size.

Kernel: linux-next, tag: next-20210322
1. Enable bootcount and snvs_lpgpr drivers
2. Verify that they compile succesfully: PASS
```
kernel-master> make -j2 drivers/nvmem/
DESCEND objtool
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CC drivers/nvmem/core.o
CC drivers/nvmem/bootcount-nvmem.o
CC drivers/nvmem/snvs_lpgpr.o
AR drivers/nvmem/built-in.
```

Testing the bootcount YAML document:
1. Check the document by running the command:
`make DT_CHECKER_FLAGS=-m dt_binding_check`
2. Verify that is successful: PASS

Changes since v1
----------------
- Fix the dt-bindings YAML document.

Nandor Han (4):
dt-bindings: nvmem: Add bootcount-nvmem
nvmem: bootcount: add bootcount driver
nvmem: snvs_lpgpr: use cell stride for regmap size calculation
nvmem: snvs_lpgpr: support two bytes NVMEM cell size

.../bindings/nvmem/bootcount-nvmem.yaml | 66 ++++++
drivers/nvmem/Kconfig | 10 +
drivers/nvmem/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/nvmem/bootcount-nvmem.c | 195 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/nvmem/snvs_lpgpr.c | 67 +++++-
5 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/bootcount-nvmem.yaml
create mode 100644 drivers/nvmem/bootcount-nvmem.c

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