Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] microcode: Use request_firmware_direct() | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:57:06 +0100 |
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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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.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; } -- 1.8.4.1
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