linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 13/13] driver core: firmware loader: cache devices firmware during suspend/resume cycle

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Message-ID: <20120726124346.GF30717@aftab.osrc.amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:43:46 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 13/13] driver core: firmware loader: cache devices
 firmware during suspend/resume cycle

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 01:00:13AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> This patch implements caching devices' firmware automatically
> during system syspend/resume cycle, so any device drivers can
> call request_firmware or request_firmware_nowait inside resume
> path to get the cached firmware if they have loaded firmwares
> successfully at least once before entering suspend.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/firmware_class.c |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> index 0918b26..59384e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <linux/list.h>
>  #include <linux/async.h>
>  #include <linux/pm.h>
> +#include <linux/suspend.h>
>  
>  #include "base.h"
>  
> @@ -106,6 +107,8 @@ struct firmware_cache {
>  	wait_queue_head_t      wait_queue;
>  	int cnt;
>  	struct delayed_work work;
> +

stray newline

> +	struct notifier_block   pm_notify;

variable names should be either all aligned or none at all but not
something in between.

>  };
>  
>  struct firmware_buf {
> @@ -1202,6 +1205,31 @@ static void device_uncache_firmwares_delay(unsigned long delay)
>  			msecs_to_jiffies(delay));
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PM
> +static int fw_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *notify_block,
> +					unsigned long mode, void *unused)
> +{
> +	switch (mode) {
> +	case PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE:
> +	case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE:
> +		device_cache_firmwares();
> +		break;
> +
> +	case PM_POST_SUSPEND:
> +	case PM_POST_HIBERNATION:
> +	case PM_POST_RESTORE:
> +		device_uncache_firmwares_delay(10 * MSEC_PER_SEC);
> +		break;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +#else
> +static int fw_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *notify_block,
> +					unsigned long mode, void *unused)
> +{}

static inline int fw_pm...

> +#endif
> +
>  static void __init fw_cache_init(void)
>  {
>  	spin_lock_init(&fw_cache.lock);
> @@ -1214,6 +1242,9 @@ static void __init fw_cache_init(void)
>  	init_waitqueue_head(&fw_cache.wait_queue);
>  	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&fw_cache.work,
>  		device_uncache_firmwares_work);
> +	fw_cache.pm_notify.notifier_call = fw_pm_notify;
> +
> +	register_pm_notifier(&fw_cache.pm_notify);
>  }
>  
>  static int __init firmware_class_init(void)
> @@ -1224,6 +1255,7 @@ static int __init firmware_class_init(void)
>  
>  static void __exit firmware_class_exit(void)
>  {
> +	unregister_pm_notifier(&fw_cache.pm_notify);
>  	class_unregister(&firmware_class);
>  }

Ok, that should be it.

Thanks.

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