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/* This races nicely with trying to read with checksum checking (nvram_read) */
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* CMOS/NV-RAM driver for Linux
*
* Copyright (C) 1997 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
* idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek <rj@suse.de>
* Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin@sun.com)
*
* This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile memory in
* the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs and into
* many Atari machines. In the former it's called "CMOS-RAM", in the latter
* "NVRAM" (NV stands for non-volatile).
*
* The data are supplied as a (seekable) character device, /dev/nvram. The
* size of this file is dependent on the controller. The usual size is 114,
* the number of freely available bytes in the memory (i.e., not used by the
* RTC itself).
*
* Checksums over the NVRAM contents are managed by this driver. In case of a
* bad checksum, reads and writes return -EIO. The checksum can be initialized
* to a sane state either by ioctl(NVRAM_INIT) (clear whole NVRAM) or
* ioctl(NVRAM_SETCKS) (doesn't change contents, just makes checksum valid
* again; use with care!)
*
* 1.1 Cesar Barros: SMP locking fixes
* added changelog
* 1.2 Erik Gilling: Cobalt Networks support
* Tim Hockin: general cleanup, Cobalt support
* 1.3 Wim Van Sebroeck: convert PRINT_PROC to seq_file
*/
static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvram_mutex);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nvram_state_lock);
static int nvram_open_cnt; /* #times opened */
static int nvram_open_mode; /* special open modes */
static ssize_t nvram_size;
/* opened for writing (exclusive) */
/* opened with O_EXCL */