[PATCH 2/2] microcode: Use request_firmware_direct()

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Tue Nov 05 2013 - 06:57:40 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
---
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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