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2013-06-25firmware loader: fix another compile warning with PM_SLEEP unsetMing Lei
This patch fixes another compiling warning with PM_SLEEP unset: drivers/base/firmware_class.c:221:29: warning: 'fw_lookup_buf' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] This time I do build kernel with both PM_SLEEP set and unset, and no warning found any more with the patch. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-21firmware loader: fix compile warning with PM_SLEEP setMing Lei
This patch fixes the below compile warning: drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1254:12: warning: 'cache_firmware' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] static int cache_firmware(const char *fw_name) ^ drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1281:12: warning: 'uncache_firmware' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] static int uncache_firmware(const char *fw_name) ^ Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-19Merge branch 'driver-core-linus' into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
This resolves the merge issues with drivers/base/firmware_class.c Thanks to Ming Lei for the patch and hints on how to resolve it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-18firmware loader: fix use-after-free by double abortMing Lei
fw_priv->buf is accessed in both request_firmware_load() and writing to sysfs file of 'loading' context, but not protected by 'fw_lock' entirely. The patch makes sure that access on 'fw_priv->buf' is protected by the lock. So fixes the double abort problem reported by nirinA raseliarison: http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/14/188 Reported-and-tested-by: nirinA raseliarison <nirina.raseliarison@gmail.com> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9 Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-06firmware loader: simplify holding module for request_firmwareMing Lei
module reference doesn't cover direct loading path, so this patch simply holds the module in the whole life time of request_firmware() to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-06firmware loader: don't export cache_firmware and uncache_firmwareMing Lei
Looks no driver has the explict requirement for the two exported API, just don't export them anymore. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-06firmware loader: fix compile warningMing Lei
The commit ddf1f0648e8c("firmware loader: fix build failure with !CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER") introduces the below warning: drivers/base/firmware_class.c:921:13: warning: 'kill_requests_without_uevent' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] So fix it by defining kill_requests_without_uevent() only if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is set. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-04firmware loader: fix build failure with !CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPERMing Lei
This patch fixes one build failure which is introduced by the patch below: driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspend When CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is unset, kill_requests_without_uevent() should be nop because no userspace loading is involved. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspendMing Lei
This patch kills the firmware loading requests of FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG before suspend to avoid blocking suspend because there is no timeout for these requests. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03driver core: firmware loader: don't cache FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG firmwareMing Lei
Generally there are only two drivers which don't need uevent to handle firmware loading, so don't cache these firmwares during suspend for these drivers since doing that may block firmware loading forever. Both the two drivers are involved in private firmware images, so they don't hit in direct loading too. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03firmware: move EXPORT_SYMBOL annotationsDaniel Mack
Move EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations so they follow immediately after the closing function brace line. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdownTakashi Iwai
When a system goes to reboot/shutdown, it tries to disable the usermode helper via usermodehelper_disable(). This might be blocked when a driver tries to load a firmware beforehand and it's stuck by some reason. For example, dell_rbu driver loads the firmware in non-hotplug mode and waits for user-space clearing the loading sysfs flag. If user-space doesn't clear the flag, it waits forever, thus blocks the reboot, too. As a workaround, in this patch, the firmware class driver registers a reboot notifier so that it can abort all pending f/w bufs before issuing usermodehelper_disable(). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-02-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent locking violations, etc. The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes. Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then. PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits) saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super() fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type kill f_vfsmnt vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol switch vfs_getattr() to struct path default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances 9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate() 9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl() ...
2013-02-26switch vfs_getattr() to struct pathAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is usedTakashi Iwai
FW_STATUS_ABORT can be set only during the user-helper invocation, thus we can ignore the check when CONFIG_HW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is disabled. Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-02-03firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPERTakashi Iwai
By shuffling the code, reduce a few ifdefs in firmware_class.c. Also, firmware_buf fmt field is changed to is_pages_buf boolean for simplification. Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-02-03firmware: Make user-mode helper optionalTakashi Iwai
This patch adds a new kconfig, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and guards the user-helper codes in firmware_class.c with ifdefs. Yeah, yeah, there are lots of ifdefs in this patch. The further clean-up with code shuffling follows in the next. Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-02-03firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper codeTakashi Iwai
Since 3.7 kernel, the firmware loader can read the firmware files directly, and the traditional user-mode helper is invoked only as a fallback. This seems working pretty well, and the next step would be to reduce the redundant user-mode helper stuff in future. This patch is a preparation for that: refactor the code for splitting user-mode helper stuff more easily. No functional change. Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16firmware: make sure the fw file size is not 0Luciano Coelho
If the requested firmware file size is 0 bytes in the filesytem, we will try to vmalloc(0), which causes a warning: vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes kworker/1:1: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd2 __vmalloc_node_range+0x164/0x208 __vmalloc_node+0x4c/0x58 vmalloc+0x38/0x44 _request_firmware_load+0x220/0x6b0 request_firmware+0x64/0xc8 wl18xx_setup+0xb4/0x570 [wl18xx] wlcore_nvs_cb+0x64/0x9f8 [wlcore] request_firmware_work_func+0x94/0x100 process_one_work+0x1d0/0x750 worker_thread+0x184/0x4ac kthread+0xb4/0xc0 To fix this, check whether the file size is less than or equal to zero in fw_read_file_contents(). Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.7] Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-11-14firmware loader: document firmware cache mechanismMing Lei
This patch documents the firmware cache mechanism so that users of request_firmware() know that it can be called safely inside device's suspend and resume callback, and the device's firmware needn't be cached any more by individual driver itself to deal with firmware loss during system resume. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-14firmware loader: introduce module parameter to customize(v4) fw search pathMing Lei
This patch introduces one module parameter of 'path' in firmware_class to support customizing firmware image search path, so that people can use its own firmware path if the default built-in paths can't meet their demand[1], and the typical usage is passing the below from kernel command parameter when 'firmware_class' is built in kernel: firmware_class.path=$CUSTOMIZED_PATH [1], https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/11/337 Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-14firmware: use noinline_for_stackCesar Eduardo Barros
The comment above fw_file_size() suggests it is noinline for stack size reasons. Use noinline_for_stack to make this more clear. Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-14firmware loader: Fix the concurrent request_firmware() race for kref_get/putChuansheng Liu
There is one race that both request_firmware() with the same firmware name. The race scenerio is as below: CPU1 CPU2 request_firmware() --> _request_firmware_load() return err another request_firmware() is coming --> _request_firmware_cleanup is called --> _request_firmware_prepare --> release_firmware ---> fw_lookup_and_allocate_buf --> spin_lock(&fwc->lock) ... __fw_lookup_buf() return true fw_free_buf() will be called --> ... kref_put --> decrease the refcount to 0 kref_get(&tmp->ref) ==> it will trigger warning due to refcount == 0 __fw_free_buf() --> ... spin_unlock(&fwc->lock) spin_lock(&fwc->lock) list_del(&buf->list) spin_unlock(&fwc->lock) kfree(buf) After that, the freed buf will be used. The key race is decreasing refcount to 0 and list_del is not protected together by fwc->lock, and it is possible another thread try to get it between refcount==0 and list_del. Fix it here to protect it together. Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-14firmware loader: Fix the race FW_STATUS_DONE is followed by class_timeoutChuansheng Liu
There is a race as below when calling request_firmware(): CPU1 CPU2 write 0 > loading mutex_lock(&fw_lock) ... set_bit FW_STATUS_DONE class_timeout is coming set_bit FW_STATUS_ABORT complete_all &completion ... mutex_unlock(&fw_lock) In this time, the bit FW_STATUS_DONE and FW_STATUS_ABORT are set, and request_firmware() will return failure due to condition in _request_firmware_load(): if (!buf->size || test_bit(FW_STATUS_ABORT, &buf->status)) retval = -ENOENT; But from the above scenerio, it should be a successful requesting. So we need judge if the bit FW_STATUS_DONE is already set before calling fw_load_abort() in timeout function. As Ming's proposal, we need change the timer into sched_work to benefit from using &fw_lock mutex also. Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22firmware loader: sync firmware cache by async_synchronize_full_domainMing Lei
async.c has provided synchronization mechanism on async_schedule_*, so use async_synchronize_full_domain to sync caching firmware instead of reinventing the wheel. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22firmware loader: let direct loading back on 'firmware_buf'Ming Lei
Firstly 'firmware_buf' is introduced to make all loading requests to share one firmware kernel buffer, so firmware_buf should be used in direct loading for saving memory and speedup firmware loading. Secondly, the commit below abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e(firmware:teach the kernel to load firmware files directly from the filesystem) introduces direct loading for fixing udev regression, but it bypasses the firmware cache meachnism, so this patch enables caching firmware for direct loading case since it is still needed to solve drivers' dependency during system resume. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22firmware loader: fix one reqeust_firmware raceMing Lei
Several loading requests may be pending on one same firmware buf, and this patch moves fw_map_pages_buf() before complete_all(&fw_buf->completion) and let all requests see the mapped 'buf->data' once the loading is completed. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22firmware loader: cancel uncache work before caching firmwareMing Lei
Under 'Opportunistic sleep' situation, system sleep might be triggered very frequently, so the uncahce work may not be completed before caching firmware during next suspend. This patch cancels the uncache work before caching firmware to fix the problem above. Also this patch optimizes the cacheing firmware mechanism a bit by only storing one firmware cache entry for one firmware image. So if the firmware is still cached during suspend, it doesn't need to be loaded from user space any more. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-04firmware: use 'kernel_read()' to read firmware into kernel bufferLinus Torvalds
Fengguang correctly points out that the firmware reading should not use vfs_read(), since the buffer is in kernel space. The vfs_read() just happened to work for kernel threads, but sparse warns about the incorrect address spaces, and it's definitely incorrect and could fail for other users of the firmware loading. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-03firmware: teach the kernel to load firmware files directly from the filesystemLinus Torvalds
This is a first step in allowing people to by-pass udev for loading device firmware. Current versions of udev will deadlock (causing us to block for the 30 second timeout) under some circumstances if the firmware is loaded as part of the module initialization path, and this is causing problems for media drivers in particular. The current patch hardcodes the firmware path that udev uses by default, and will fall back to the legacy udev mode if the firmware cannot be found there. We'd like to add support for both configuring the paths and the fallback behaviour, but in the meantime this hopefully fixes the immediate problem, while also giving us a way forward. [ v2: Some VFS layer interface cleanups suggested by Al Viro ] [ v3: use the default udev paths suggested by Kay Sievers ] Suggested-by: Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@redhat.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-10firmware loader: fix compile warning when CONFIG_PM=nMing Lei
This patch replaces the previous macro of CONFIG_PM with CONFIG_PM_SLEEP becasue firmware cache is only used in system sleep situations. Also this patch fixes the below compile warning when CONFIG_PM=n: drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1147: warning: 'device_cache_fw_images' defined but not used drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1212: warning: 'device_uncache_fw_images_delay' defined but not used Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-06firmware loader: let caching firmware piggyback on loading firmwareMing Lei
After starting caching firmware, there is still some time left before devices are suspended, during the period, request_firmware or its nowait version may still be triggered by the below situations to load firmware images which can't be cached during suspend/resume cycle. - new devices added - driver bind - or device open kind of things This patch utilizes the piggyback trick to cache firmware for this kind of situation: just increase the firmware buf's reference count and add the fw name entry into cache entry list after starting caching firmware and before syscore_suspend() is called. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-06firmware loader: fix firmware -ENOENT situationsMing Lei
If the requested firmware image doesn't exist, firmware->priv should be set for the later concurrent requests, otherwise warning and oops will be triggered inside firmware_free_data(). Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-17firmware loader: fix build failure if FW_LOADER is mMing Lei
device_cache_fw_images need to iterate devices in system, so this patch applies the introduced dpm_for_each_dev to avoid link failure if CONFIG_FW_LOADER is m. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-17firmware loader: fix compile failure if !PMMing Lei
'return 0' should be added to fw_pm_notify if !PM because return value of the funcion is defined as 'int'. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: cache devices firmware during suspend/resume cycleMing Lei
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@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: use small timeout for cache device firmwareMing Lei
Because device_cache_fw_images only cache the firmware which has been loaded sucessfully at leat once, using a small loading timeout should be reasonable. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware: introduce device_cache/uncache_fw_imagesMing Lei
This patch introduces the three helpers below: void device_cache_fw_images(void) void device_uncache_fw_images(void) void device_uncache_fw_images_delay(unsigned long) so we can use device_cache_fw_images() to cache firmware for all devices which need firmware to work, and the device driver can get the firmware easily from kernel memory when system isn't ready for completing requests of loading firmware. After system is ready for completing firmware loading, driver core will call device_uncache_fw_images() or its delay version to free the cached firmware. The above helpers will be used to cache device firmware during system suspend/resume cycle in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: store firmware name into devres listMing Lei
This patch will store firmware name into devres list of the device which is requesting firmware loading, so that we can implement auto cache and uncache firmware for devices in need. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: fix comments on request_firmware_nowaitMing Lei
request_firmware_nowait is allowed to be called in atomic context now if @gfp is GFP_ATOMIC, so fix the obsolete comments and states which situations are suitable for using it. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: fix device lifetimeMing Lei
Callers of request_firmware* must hold the reference count of @device, otherwise it is easy to trigger oops since the firmware loader device is the child of @device. This patch adds comments about the usage. In fact, most of drivers call request_firmware* in its probe() or open(), so the constraint should be reasonable and can be satisfied. Also this patch holds the reference count of @device before schedule_work() in request_firmware_nowait() to avoid that the @device is released after request_firmware_nowait returns and before the worker function is scheduled. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: introduce cache_firmware and uncache_firmwareMing Lei
This patches introduce two kernel APIs of cache_firmware and uncache_firmware, both of which take the firmware file name as the only parameter. So any drivers can call cache_firmware to cache the specified firmware file into kernel memory, and can use the cached firmware in situations which can't request firmware from user space. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: always let firmware_buf own the pages bufferMing Lei
This patch always let firmware_buf own the pages buffer allocated inside firmware_data_write, and add all instances of firmware_buf into the firmware cache global list. Also introduce one private field in 'struct firmware', so release_firmware will see the instance of firmware_buf associated with the current firmware instance, then just 'free' the instance of firmware_buf. The firmware_buf instance represents one pages buffer for one firmware image, so lots of firmware loading requests can share the same firmware_buf instance if they request the same firmware image file. This patch will make implementation of the following cache_firmware/ uncache_firmware very easy and simple. In fact, the patch improves request_formware/release_firmware: - only request userspace to write firmware image once if several devices share one same firmware image and its drivers call request_firmware concurrently. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: introduce firmware_bufMing Lei
This patch introduces struct firmware_buf to describe the buffer which holds the firmware data, which will make the following cache_firmware/uncache_firmware implemented easily. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: fix creation failure of fw loader deviceMing Lei
If one device driver calls request_firmware_nowait() to request several different firmwares' loading, device_add() will return failure since all firmware loader device use same name of the device who is requesting firmware. This patch always use the name of firmware image as the firmware loader device name to fix the problem since the following patches for caching firmware will make sure only one loading for same firmware is alllowd at the same time. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: remove unnecessary wmb()Ming Lei
The wmb() inside fw_load_abort is not necessary, since complete() and wait_on_completion() has implied one pair of memory barrier. Also wmb() isn't a correct usage, so just remove it. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: fix races during loading firmwareMing Lei
This patch fixes two races in loading firmware: 1, FW_STATUS_DONE should be set before waking up the task waitting on _request_firmware_load, otherwise FW_STATUS_ABORT may be thought as DONE mistakenly. 2, Inside _request_firmware_load(), there is a small window between wait_for_completion() and mutex_lock(&fw_lock), and 'echo 1 > loading' still may happen during the period, so this patch checks FW_STATUS_DONE to prevent pages' buffer completed from being freed in firmware_loading_store. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware loader: simplify pages ownership transferMing Lei
This patch doesn't transfer ownership of pages' buffer to the instance of firmware until the firmware loading is completed, which will simplify firmware_loading_store a lot, so help to introduce the following cache_firmware and uncache_firmware mechanism during system suspend-resume cycle. In fact, this patch fixes one bug: if writing data into firmware loader device is bypassed between writting 1 and 0 to 'loading', OOPS will be triggered without the patch. Also handle the vmap failure case, and add some comments to make code more readable. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-16driver-core: Use kobj_to_dev instead of re-implementing itLars-Peter Clausen
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-28firmware_class: Move request_firmware_nowait() to workqueuesStephen Boyd
Oddly enough a work_struct was already part of the firmware_work structure but nobody was using it. Instead of creating a new kthread for each request_firmware_nowait() call just schedule the work on the system workqueue. This should avoid some overhead in forking new threads when they're not strictly necessary. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>