counter: Introduce the Generic Counter interface

This patch introduces the Generic Counter interface for supporting
counter devices.

In the context of the Generic Counter interface, a counter is defined as
a device that reports one or more "counts" based on the state changes of
one or more "signals" as evaluated by a defined "count function."

Driver callbacks should be provided to communicate with the device: to
read and write various Signals and Counts, and to set and get the
"action mode" and "count function" for various Synapses and Counts
respectively.

To support a counter device, a driver must first allocate the available
Counter Signals via counter_signal structures. These Signals should
be stored as an array and set to the signals array member of an
allocated counter_device structure before the Counter is registered to
the system.

Counter Counts may be allocated via counter_count structures, and
respective Counter Signal associations (Synapses) made via
counter_synapse structures. Associated counter_synapse structures are
stored as an array and set to the the synapses array member of the
respective counter_count structure. These counter_count structures are
set to the counts array member of an allocated counter_device structure
before the Counter is registered to the system.

A counter device is registered to the system by passing the respective
initialized counter_device structure to the counter_register function;
similarly, the counter_unregister function unregisters the respective
Counter. The devm_counter_register and devm_counter_unregister functions
serve as device memory-managed versions of the counter_register and
counter_unregister functions respectively.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

MAINTAINERS

@@ -4054,6 +4054,14 @@ W:	http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/cosa/
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/wan/cosa*
 
+COUNTER SUBSYSTEM
+M:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
+L:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	drivers/counter/
+F:	include/linux/counter.h
+F:	include/linux/counter_enum.h
+
 CPMAC ETHERNET DRIVER
 M:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org

drivers/Kconfig

@@ -230,4 +230,6 @@ source "drivers/slimbus/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/interconnect/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/counter/Kconfig"
+
 endmenu

drivers/Makefile

@@ -187,3 +187,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_UNISYS_VISORBUS)	+= visorbus/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SIOX)		+= siox/
 obj-$(CONFIG_GNSS)		+= gnss/
 obj-$(CONFIG_INTERCONNECT)	+= interconnect/
+obj-$(CONFIG_COUNTER)		+= counter/

drivers/counter/Kconfig

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#
+# Counter devices
+#
+
+menuconfig COUNTER
+	tristate "Counter support"
+	help
+	  This enables counter device support through the Generic Counter
+	  interface. You only need to enable this, if you also want to enable
+	  one or more of the counter device drivers below.

drivers/counter/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#
+# Makefile for Counter devices
+#
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_COUNTER) += counter.o

include/linux/counter_enum.h

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Counter interface enum functions
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 William Breathitt Gray
+ */
+#ifndef _COUNTER_ENUM_H_
+#define _COUNTER_ENUM_H_
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+struct counter_device;
+struct counter_signal;
+struct counter_count;
+
+ssize_t counter_signal_enum_read(struct counter_device *counter,
+				 struct counter_signal *signal, void *priv,
+				 char *buf);
+ssize_t counter_signal_enum_write(struct counter_device *counter,
+				  struct counter_signal *signal, void *priv,
+				  const char *buf, size_t len);
+
+ssize_t counter_signal_enum_available_read(struct counter_device *counter,
+					   struct counter_signal *signal,
+					   void *priv, char *buf);
+
+ssize_t counter_count_enum_read(struct counter_device *counter,
+				struct counter_count *count, void *priv,
+				char *buf);
+ssize_t counter_count_enum_write(struct counter_device *counter,
+				 struct counter_count *count, void *priv,
+				 const char *buf, size_t len);
+
+ssize_t counter_count_enum_available_read(struct counter_device *counter,
+					  struct counter_count *count,
+					  void *priv, char *buf);
+
+ssize_t counter_device_enum_read(struct counter_device *counter, void *priv,
+				 char *buf);
+ssize_t counter_device_enum_write(struct counter_device *counter, void *priv,
+				  const char *buf, size_t len);
+
+ssize_t counter_device_enum_available_read(struct counter_device *counter,
+					   void *priv, char *buf);
+
+#endif /* _COUNTER_ENUM_H_ */