Re: [PATCH 2/2] driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspend

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon May 27 2013 - 08:24:46 EST


At Mon, 27 May 2013 18:30:04 +0800,
Ming Lei wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This patch depends on Takashi Iwai's patch of "firmware: Avoid deadlock of
> usermodehelper lock at shutdown"

Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>


thanks,

Takashi

>
> drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> index 64e7870..5690e72 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct firmware_buf {
> size_t size;
> #ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
> bool is_paged_buf;
> + bool need_uevent;
> struct page **pages;
> int nr_pages;
> int page_array_size;
> @@ -873,6 +874,7 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv, bool uevent,
> }
>
> if (uevent) {
> + buf->need_uevent = true;
> dev_set_uevent_suppress(f_dev, false);
> dev_dbg(f_dev, "firmware: requesting %s\n", buf->fw_id);
> if (timeout != MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT)
> @@ -1407,6 +1409,20 @@ static void __device_uncache_fw_images(void)
> spin_unlock(&fwc->name_lock);
> }
>
> +/* kill pending requests without uevent to avoid blocking suspend */
> +static void kill_requests_without_uevent(void)
> +{
> + struct firmware_buf *buf;
> + struct firmware_buf *next;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(buf, next, &pending_fw_head, pending_list) {
> + if (!buf->need_uevent)
> + fw_load_abort(buf);
> + }
> + mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
> +}
> +
> /**
> * device_cache_fw_images - cache devices' firmware
> *
> @@ -1486,6 +1502,7 @@ static int fw_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *notify_block,
> switch (mode) {
> case PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE:
> case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE:
> + kill_requests_without_uevent();
> device_cache_fw_images();
> break;
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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