[PATCH RFC 0/6] power: supply: extension API

[Thomas Weißschuh]

Introduce a mechanism for drivers to extend the properties implemented
by a power supply.

Motivation
----------

Various drivers, mostly in platform/x86 extend the ACPI battery driver
with additional sysfs attributes to implement more UAPIs than are
exposed through ACPI by using various side-channels, like WMI,
nonstandard ACPI or EC communication.

While the created sysfs attributes look similar to the attributes
provided by the powersupply core, there are various deficiencies:

* They don't show up in uevent payload.
* They can't be queried with the standard in-kernel APIs.
* They don't work with triggers.
* The extending driver has to reimplement all of the parsing,
  formatting and sysfs display logic.
* Writing a extension driver is completely different from writing a
  normal power supply driver.
* Properties can not be properly overriden.

The proposed extension API avoids all of these issues.
An extension is just a "struct power_supply_ext" with the same kind of
callbacks as in a normal "struct power_supply_desc".

The API is meant to be used via battery_hook_register(), the same way as
the current extensions.

For example my upcoming cros_ec charge control driver[0] saves 80 lines
of code with this patchset.

Contents
--------

* Patch 1 and 2 are generic preparation patches, that probably make
  sense without this series.
* Patch 3 implements the extension API itself.
* Patch 4 implements a PoC locking scheme for the extension API.
* Patch 5 adds extension support to test_power.c
* Patch 6 converts the in-tree platform/x86/system76 driver to the
  extension API.

Open issues
-----------

* Newly registered properties will not show up in hwmon.
  To do that properly would require some changes in the hwmon core.
  As far as I know, no current driver would extend the hwmon properties anyways.
* As this is only useful with the hooks of CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY, should
  it also be gated behind this or another config?
* Only one extension can be used at a time.
  So far this should be enough, having more would complicate the
  implementation.
* Is an rw_semaphore acceptable?

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240528-cros_ec-charge-control-v2-0-81fb27e1cff4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Thomas Weißschuh (6):
      power: supply: sysfs: use power_supply_property_is_writeable()
      power: supply: core: avoid iterating properties directly
      power: supply: core: implement extension API
      power: supply: core: add locking around extension access
      power: supply: test-power: implement a power supply extension
      platform/x86: system76: Use power_supply extension API

 drivers/platform/x86/system76_acpi.c      |  83 +++++++++---------
 drivers/power/supply/power_supply.h       |   9 ++
 drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c  | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/power/supply/power_supply_hwmon.c |  48 +++++------
 drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c |  39 ++++++---
 drivers/power/supply/test_power.c         | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/power_supply.h              |  25 ++++++
 7 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 2df0193e62cf887f373995fb8a91068562784adc
change-id: 20240602-power-supply-extensions-07d949f509d9

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>