Re: [PATCH 1/3] power: Add power_supply_get_battery_all() to fetch battery psy handles

From: Hans de Goede

Date: Fri May 15 2026 - 03:18:38 EST


Hi,

On 15-May-26 07:48, Amit Sunil Dhamne via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Amit Sunil Dhamne <amitsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add power_supply_get_battery_all() to allow drivers to obtain a list of
> registered battery type power supply references in the system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Sunil Dhamne <amitsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/power_supply.h | 9 +++
> 2 files changed, 131 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
> index a446d3d086fc..697645426fb1 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
> @@ -482,6 +482,128 @@ struct power_supply *power_supply_get_by_name(const char *name)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(power_supply_get_by_name);
>
> +static int __power_supply_get_num_battery(struct power_supply *epsy, void *data)
> +{
> + int *count = data;
> +
> + if (epsy->desc->type == POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_BATTERY)
> + (*count)++;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int power_supply_get_num_battery(struct device *dev)
> +{
> + int ret, count = 0;
> +
> + ret = power_supply_for_each_psy(&count, __power_supply_get_num_battery);
> +
> + dev_dbg(dev, "%s: count: %d ret %d\n", __func__, count, ret);
> +
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
> + return count;
> +}
> +
> +struct psy_get_supplies_data {
> + int cnt;
> + int size;
> + struct power_supply **psys;
> +};
> +
> +static int __power_supply_populate_battery_array(struct power_supply *epsy,
> + void *_data)
> +{
> + struct psy_get_supplies_data *data = _data;
> +
> + if (epsy->desc->type == POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_BATTERY) {
> + if (data->size <= data->cnt)
> + return -EOVERFLOW;
> +
> + get_device(&epsy->dev);
> + data->psys[data->cnt] = epsy;
> + atomic_inc(&epsy->use_cnt);
> + data->cnt++;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int power_supply_populate_battery_array(struct device *dev, int size,
> + struct power_supply **batteries)
> +{
> + int ret, i;
> +
> + struct psy_get_supplies_data data = {
> + .cnt = 0,
> + .size = size,
> + .psys = batteries,
> + };
> +
> + ret = power_supply_for_each_psy(&data, __power_supply_populate_battery_array);
> +
> + dev_dbg(dev, "%s Found %d batteries with array size %d ret %d\n",
> + __func__, data.cnt, data.size, ret);
> +
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + for (i = 0; i < data.cnt; i++)
> + power_supply_put(batteries[i]);
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
> + return data.cnt;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * power_supply_get_battery_all() - Searches for all battery type power supplies
> + * and returns their references.
> + * @dev: Pointer to device requesting the power supply refs.
> + * @psys: Pointer to an array of power supply refs that will be filled by this
> + * function.
> + *
> + * This function helps drivers get handles to all battery type power supplies.
> + * If acquiring a ref to a power supply results in error, then the search for
> + * battery type power supplies will abort and the acquired power supplies will
> + * be "put".
> + *
> + * Return: Indicates the number of battery type power supplies returned on
> + * success or the negative error code on failure.
> + *
> + * It's the responsibility of the caller to invoke power_supply_put() on the
> + * individual psy refs and free the array returned by this function using kfree().

Not a full review, just a quick remark: It seems to me that there should
be some helper function e.g. :

void power_supply_put_array(struct power_supply **psys, int count);

Which can be called with the returned array + count to do this for the caller,
rather then expecting all callers to open code this.

Regards,

Hans


> + */
> +int __must_check power_supply_get_battery_all(struct device *dev,
> + struct power_supply ***psys)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + if (!psys)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + ret = power_supply_get_num_battery(dev);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + return ret;
> +
> + if (!ret) {
> + *psys = NULL;
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> + *psys = kzalloc_objs(**psys, ret);
> + if (!*psys)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + ret = power_supply_populate_battery_array(dev, ret, *psys);
> + if (ret <= 0) {
> + kfree(*psys);
> + *psys = NULL;
> + }
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(power_supply_get_battery_all);
> +
> /**
> * power_supply_put() - Drop reference obtained with power_supply_get_by_name
> * @psy: Reference to put
> diff --git a/include/linux/power_supply.h b/include/linux/power_supply.h
> index 7a5e4c3242a0..2467530a5740 100644
> --- a/include/linux/power_supply.h
> +++ b/include/linux/power_supply.h
> @@ -806,11 +806,20 @@ extern int power_supply_reg_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
> extern void power_supply_unreg_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY)
> extern struct power_supply *power_supply_get_by_name(const char *name);
> +extern int __must_check power_supply_get_battery_all(struct device *dev,
> + struct power_supply ***psys);
> extern void power_supply_put(struct power_supply *psy);
> #else
> static inline void power_supply_put(struct power_supply *psy) {}
> static inline struct power_supply *power_supply_get_by_name(const char *name)
> { return NULL; }
> +static inline int __must_check power_supply_get_battery_all(struct device *dev,
> + struct power_supply ***psys)
> +{
> + if (psys)
> + *psys = NULL;
> + return 0;
> +}
> #endif
> extern struct power_supply *power_supply_get_by_reference(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> const char *property);
>