linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into

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Message-ID: <b440f372-45be-c06c-94a1-44ae6b1e7eb8@broadcom.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:24:22 -0700
From:   Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf

Hi Takashi,

On 2019-08-26 10:12 a.m., Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:41:40 +0200,
> Scott Branden wrote:
>> HI Takashi,
>>
>> On 2019-08-26 8:20 a.m., Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 21:44:42 +0200,
>>> Scott Branden wrote:
>>>> Hi Takashi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for review.  comments below.
>>>>
>>>> On 2019-08-23 3:05 a.m., Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:24:46 +0200,
>>>>> Scott Branden wrote:
>>>>>> Add offset to request_firmware_into_buf to allow for portions
>>>>>> of firmware file to be read into a buffer.  Necessary where firmware
>>>>>> needs to be loaded in portions from file in memory constrained systems.
>>>>> AFAIU, this won't work with the fallback user helper, right?
>>>> Seems to work fine in the fw_run_tests.sh with fallbacks.
>>> But how?  You patch doesn't change anything about the fallback loading
>>> mechanism.
>> Correct - I didn't change any of the underlying mechanisms,
>> so however request_firmware_into_buf worked before it still does.
>>>    Or, if the expected behavior is to load the whole content
>>> and then copy a part, what's the merit of this API?
>> The merit of the API is that the entire file is not copied into a buffer.
>> In my use case, the buffer is a memory region in PCIe space that isn't
>> even large enough for the whole file.  So the only way to get the file
>> is to read it
>> in portions.
> BTW: does the use case above mean that the firmware API directly
> writes onto the given PCI iomem region?  If so, I'm not sure whether
> it would work as expected on all architectures.  There must be a
> reason of the presence of iomem-related API like memcpy_toio()...
Yes, we access the PCI region directly in the driver and thus also 
through request_firmware_into_buf.
I will admit I am not familiar with every subtlety of PCI accesses. Any 
comments to the Valkyrie driver in this patch series are appreciated.
But not all drivers need to work on all architectures. I can add a 
depends on x86 64bit architectures to the driver to limit it to such.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi