| From: |
| Sander Vanheule <sander-AT-svanheule.net> |
| To: |
| Mark Brown <broonie-AT-kernel.org>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH v5 0/2] regmap: Introduce validity info for flat cache |
| Date: |
| Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:50:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20251023135032.229511-1-sander@svanheule.net> |
| Cc: |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael-AT-kernel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr-AT-kernel.org>, Sander Vanheule <sander-AT-svanheule.net> |
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| Article |
The flat cache behaves differently from the other caches, in that it has
no way of knowing if a cache entry is valid. Initialization has to
happen either by providing defaults, by loading defaults from hardware
(via num_reg_defaults_raw), or by performing the required register
writes. This difference in behavior may be unexpected to the user [1].
To provide feature parity between the different cache types, a new
variant of the flat cache is proposed. This allows user to migrate to
the sparse flat cache (or a different cache type) when possible.
In order to encourage migration, the second patch adds a new warning to
inform the user of their suspicious cache.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/e461ca08-ad28-44fe-85f...
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Changes sinve v4:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251022200408.63027-1-sande...
- Improve formatting of log message
- Reduce logging to not confuse KUnit test result parser
- Add sparse flat cache to all KUnit config lists
Changes since v3:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250109180256.6269-1-sander...
- Split changes into two patches to provide a migration path
Changes since v2:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250109151106.38645-1-sander...
- Complete renaming of index variables so regcache-flat.c compiles again
Changes since v1:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241231100256.194753-1-sande...
- Fix off-by-one in length for bitmap_clear()
- Add REGCACHE_FLAT to the list of sparse cache tests
Sander Vanheule (2):
regmap: add flat cache with sparse validity
regmap: warn users about uninitialized flat cache
drivers/base/regmap/internal.h | 1 +
drivers/base/regmap/regcache-flat.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c | 1 +
drivers/base/regmap/regmap-kunit.c | 22 +++++++
include/linux/regmap.h | 1 +
5 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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