linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/4] microcode: Use request_firmware

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Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 13:02:14 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	amd64-microcode@...64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] microcode: Use request_firmware_direct()

Use the new helper, request_firmware_direct(), for avoiding the
lengthy timeout of non-existing firmware loads.  Especially the Intel
microcode driver suffers from this problem because each CPU triggers
the f/w loading, thus it ends up taking (literally) hours with many
cores.

Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c   | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index af99f71aeb7f..539a01a91210 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcode_amd(int cpu, struct device *device,
 	if (c->x86 >= 0x15)
 		snprintf(fw_name, sizeof(fw_name), "amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam%.2xh.bin", c->x86);
 
-	if (request_firmware(&fw, (const char *)fw_name, device)) {
+	if (request_firmware_direct(&fw, (const char *)fw_name, device)) {
 		pr_err("failed to load file %s\n", fw_name);
 		goto out;
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
index 5fb2cebf556b..a276fa75d9b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcode_fw(int cpu, struct device *device,
 	sprintf(name, "intel-ucode/%02x-%02x-%02x",
 		c->x86, c->x86_model, c->x86_mask);
 
-	if (request_firmware(&firmware, name, device)) {
+	if (request_firmware_direct(&firmware, name, device)) {
 		pr_debug("data file %s load failed\n", name);
 		return UCODE_NFOUND;
 	}
-- 
1.8.4.2

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