Hi Bjorn,
On 2019-05-26 10:36 p.m., Bjorn Andersson wrote:
On Thu 23 May 09:56 PDT 2019, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 09:41:49AM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
Hi Greg,
On 2019-05-22 10:52 p.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 07:51:13PM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
Adjust request_firmware_into_buf API to allow for portions
of firmware file to be read into a buffer. mdt_loader still
retricts request fo whole file read into buffer.
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
index 1c488024c698..ad20d159699c 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
@@ -172,8 +172,11 @@ static int __qcom_mdt_load(struct device *dev, const struct firmware *fw,
if (phdr->p_filesz) {
sprintf(fw_name + fw_name_len - 3, "b%02d", i);
- ret = request_firmware_into_buf(&seg_fw, fw_name, dev,
- ptr, phdr->p_filesz);
+ ret = request_firmware_into_buf
+ (&seg_fw, fw_name, dev,
+ ptr, phdr->p_filesz,
+ 0,
+ KERNEL_PREAD_FLAG_WHOLE);
So, all that work in the first 2 patches for no real change at all? Why
are these changes even needed?
The first two patches allow partial read of files into memory.
Existing kernel drivers haven't need such functionality so, yes, there
should be no real change
with first two patches other than adding such partial file read support.
We have a new driver in development which needs partial read of files
supported in the kernel.
As I said before, I can not take new apis without any in-kernel user.
So let's wait for your new code that thinks it needs this, and then we
will be glad to evaluate all of this at that point in time.
The .mdt files are ELF files split to avoid having to allocate large
(5-60MB) chunks of temporary firmware buffers while installing the
segments.
But for multiple reasons it would be nice to be able to load the
non-split ELF files and the proposed interface would allow this.
So I definitely like the gist of the series.
To do so otherwise is to have loads of unused "features" aquiring cruft
in the kernel source, and you do not want that.
Agreed.
I'll take the opportunity and see if I can implement this (support for
non-split Qualcomm firmware) based on the patches in this series.
I'm back from my leave now.
Have you managed to utilize my partial firmware read in your driver yet?
Regards,
Bjorn
