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* firmware: add firmware_request_nowarn() - load firmware without warningsAndres Rodriguez2018-05-141-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the firmware loader only exposes one silent path for querying optional firmware, and that is firmware_request_direct(). This function also disables the sysfs fallback mechanism, which might not always be the desired behaviour [0]. This patch introduces a variations of request_firmware() that enable the caller to disable the undesired warning messages but enables the sysfs fallback mechanism. This is equivalent to adding FW_OPT_NO_WARN to the old behaviour. [0]: https://git.kernel.org/linus/c0cc00f250e1 Signed-off-by: Andres Rodriguez <andresx7@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> [mcgrof: used the old API calls as the full rename is not done yet, and add the caller for when FW_LOADER is disabled, enhance documentation ] Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* firmware: add firmware_request_cache() to help with cache on rebootLuis R. Rodriguez2018-03-221-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some devices have an optimization in place to enable the firmware to be retaineed during a system reboot, so after reboot the device can skip requesting and loading the firmware. This can save up to 1s in load time. The mt7601u 802.11 device happens to be such a device. When these devices retain the firmware on a reboot and then suspend they can miss looking for the firmware on resume. To help with this we need a way to cache the firmware when such an optimization has taken place. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman2017-11-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* firmware: support loading into a pre-allocated bufferStephen Boyd2016-08-021-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some systems are memory constrained but they need to load very large firmwares. The firmware subsystem allows drivers to request this firmware be loaded from the filesystem, but this requires that the entire firmware be loaded into kernel memory first before it's provided to the driver. This can lead to a situation where we map the firmware twice, once to load the firmware into kernel memory and once to copy the firmware into the final resting place. This creates needless memory pressure and delays loading because we have to copy from kernel memory to somewhere else. Let's add a request_firmware_into_buf() API that allows drivers to request firmware be loaded directly into a pre-allocated buffer. This skips the intermediate step of allocating a buffer in kernel memory to hold the firmware image while it's read from the filesystem. It also requires that drivers know how much memory they'll require before requesting the firmware and negates any benefits of firmware caching because the firmware layer doesn't manage the buffer lifetime. For a 16MB buffer, about half the time is spent performing a memcpy from the buffer to the final resting place. I see loading times go from 0.081171 seconds to 0.047696 seconds after applying this patch. Plus the vmalloc pressure is reduced. This is based on a patch from Vikram Mulukutla on codeaurora.org: https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/drivers/base/firmware_class.c?h=rel/msm-3.18&id=0a328c5f6cd999f5c591f172216835636f39bcb5 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160607164741.31849-4-stephen.boyd@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* firmware loader: inform direct failure when udev loader is disabledLuis R. Rodriguez2014-07-081-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the udev firmware loader is optional request_firmware() will not provide any information on the kernel ring buffer if direct firmware loading failed and udev firmware loading is disabled. If no information is needed request_firmware_direct() should be used for optional firmware, at which point drivers can take on the onus over informing of any failures, if udev firmware loading is disabled though we should at the very least provide some sort of information as when the udev loader was enabled by default back in the days. With this change with a simple firmware load test module [0]: Example output without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed with error -2 Example with FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed with error -2 platform fake-dev.0: Falling back to user helper Without this change without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK we get no output logged upon failure. Cc: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loaderTakashi Iwai2014-07-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [The patch was originally proposed by Tom Gundersen, and rewritten afterwards by me; most of changelogs below borrowed from Tom's original patch -- tiwai] Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev without breaking other users (though some have). Ideally we would remove/disable the udev firmware helper in both the kernel and in udev, but if we were to disable it in udev and not the kernel, the result would be (seemingly) hung kernels as no one would be around to cancel firmware requests. This patch allows udev firmware loading to be disabled while still allowing non-udev firmware loading, as done by the dell-rbu driver, to continue working. This is achieved by only using the fallback mechanism when the uevent is suppressed. The patch renames the user-selectable Kconfig from FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER to FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK, and the former is reverse-selected by the latter or the drivers that need userhelper like dell-rbu. Also, the "default y" is removed together with this change, since it's been deprecated in udev upstream, thus rather better to disable it nowadays. Tested with FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n LATTICE_ECP3_CONFIG=y DELL_RBU=y and udev without the firmware loading support, but I don't have the hardware to test the lattice/dell drivers, so additional testing would be appreciated. Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Tested-by: Balaji Singh <B_B_Singh@DELL.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* firmware: Introduce request_firmware_direct()Takashi Iwai2013-12-081-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is set, request_firmware() falls back to the usermode helper for loading via udev when the direct loading fails. But the recent udev takes way too long timeout (60 seconds) for non-existing firmware. This is unacceptable for the drivers like microcode loader where they load firmwares optionally, i.e. it's no error even if no requested file exists. This patch provides a new helper function, request_firmware_direct(). It behaves as same as request_firmware() except for that it doesn't fall back to usermode helper but returns an error immediately if the f/w can't be loaded directly in kernel. Without CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y, request_firmware_direct() is just an alias of request_firmware(), due to obvious reason. Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* firmware loader: don't export cache_firmware and uncache_firmwareMing Lei2013-06-061-11/+0
| | | | | | | | 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>
* firmware loader: introduce cache_firmware and uncache_firmwareMing Lei2012-08-161-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* firmware loader: always let firmware_buf own the pages bufferMing Lei2012-08-161-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker2011-10-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The <linux/module.h> pretty much brings in the kitchen sink along with it, so it should be avoided wherever reasonably possible in terms of being included from other commonly used <linux/something.h> files, as it results in a measureable increase on compile times. The worst culprit was probably device.h since it is used everywhere. This file also had an implicit dependency/usage of mutex.h which was masked by module.h, and is also fixed here at the same time. There are over a dozen other headers that simply declare the struct instead of pulling in the whole file, so follow their lead and simply make it a few more. Most of the implicit dependencies on module.h being present by these headers pulling it in have been now weeded out, so we can finally make this change with hopefully minimal breakage. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* firmware_classs: change val uevent's type to boolBob Liu2011-02-031-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Some place in firmware_class.c using "int uevent" define, but others use "bool uevent". This patch replace all int uevent define to bool. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* firmware_class: fix memory leak - free allocated pagesDavid Woodhouse2010-05-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix memory leak introduced by the patch 6e03a201bbe: firmware: speed up request_firmware() 1. vfree won't release pages there were allocated explicitly and mapped using vmap. The memory has to be vunmap-ed and the pages needs to be freed explicitly 2. page array is moved into the 'struct firmware' so that we can free it from release_firmware() and not only in fw_dev_release() The fix doesn't break the firmware load speed. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Singed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* firmware_class: make request_firmware_nowait more usefulJohannes Berg2009-12-111-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unfortunately, one cannot hold on to the struct firmware that request_firmware_nowait() hands off, which is needed in some cases. Allow this by requiring the callback to free it (via release_firmware). Additionally, give it a gfp_t parameter -- all the current users call it from a GFP_KERNEL context so the GFP_ATOMIC isn't necessary. This also marks an API break which is useful in a sense, although that is obviously not the primary purpose of this change. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* firmware: FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX removalSamuel Ortiz2009-06-151-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | As we're allocating the firmware name dynamically, we no longer need this definition. This patch must be applied only after the 5 previous patches from this pacth set have been applied. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel imageDavid Woodhouse2008-07-101-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary. Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the firmware loader. A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd. This allows them to work in a static kernel. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* firmware: make fw->data constDavid Woodhouse2008-07-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than having to copy it). Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* firmware: fix the request_firmware() dummyJames Bottomley2008-07-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > the build (.config attached) failed, make ends with : > ... > UPD include/linux/compile.h > CC init/version.o > LD init/built-in.o > LD vmlinux > drivers/built-in.o: In function `sas_request_addr': > (.text+0x33bab): undefined reference to `request_firmware' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `sas_request_addr': > (.text+0x33c3f): undefined reference to `release_firmware' > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 There's a slight fault in the stub logic. It fails for FW_LOADER=m and the user =y. This should fix it. This patch fixes the following 2.6.26-rc regression: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10730 Reviewed-by: Toralf Foerster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* firmware: provide stubs for the FW_LOADER=n caseJames Bottomley2008-03-101-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | libsas has a case where it uses the firmware loader to provide services, but doesn't want to select it all the time. This currently causes a compile failure in libsas if FW_LOADER=n. Fix this by providing error stubs for the firmware loader API in the FW_LOADER=n case. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] drivers/base/firmware_class.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk2006-05-211-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - remove the following global function that is both unused and unimplemented: - register_firmware() - make the following needlessly global function static: - firmware_class_uevent() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers2006-01-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] modified firmware_class.c to support no hotplugAbhay Salunke2005-09-071-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | Upgrade the request_firmware_nowait function to not start the hotplug action on a firmware update. This patch is tested along with dell_rbu driver on i386 and x86-64 systems. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+20
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!