From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org,
Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com>,
tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] intel_microcode, Fix long microcode load time when firmware file is missing
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:43:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACVXFVP+RdNp_tkdfEBicE1S-92mwrS2w24pZ9pYu-5tR9ghTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5265395C.2040807@redhat.com>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/21/2013 08:32 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And why don't you pass FW_ACTION_HOTPLUG? and you are sure
>>>> that udev isn't required to handle your microcode update request?
>>>>
>>>
>>> AFAICT in both cases, udev wasn't required to handle the cpu microcode update.
>>> Both drivers use CMH to load the firmware which removes the need for udev to do
>>> anything. Admittedly maybe I've missed some odd use case but I don't think it
>>> is necessary.
>>
>> OK, so I guess the CMH still need uevent to get notified, right?
>
> The code as it is _currently_ written does not use uevents to load the processor
> firmware. ie) call_usermodehelper does not need uevent to get notified, so I
> think FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG is correct.
You need to make sure your patch won't break userspace in old
distribution with your _currently_ code.
Actually if udev isn't used in your user space, the timeout issue
won't be triggered because it is blocked by udev.
Thanks,
--
Ming Lei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-22 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-20 21:35 [PATCH 0/2] Improve firmware loading times on AMD and Intel Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-20 21:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] firmware, fix request_firmware_nowait() freeze with no uevent Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-21 12:24 ` Ming Lei
2013-10-21 22:24 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-22 2:35 ` Ming Lei
2013-10-22 23:15 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-23 4:16 ` Ming Lei
2013-10-23 10:36 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-23 12:02 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-23 13:21 ` Ming Lei
2013-10-23 14:08 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-24 1:54 ` Ming Lei
2013-10-24 11:17 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-10-24 12:05 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-20 21:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] intel_microcode, Fix long microcode load time when firmware file is missing Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-21 12:20 ` Ming Lei
2013-10-21 12:26 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-21 12:32 ` Ming Lei
2013-10-21 14:25 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-22 2:43 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2013-10-22 23:16 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-20 22:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] Improve firmware loading times on AMD and Intel Andi Kleen
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