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 design creates needless memory pressure and delays loading because
we have to copy from kernel memory to somewhere else. This patch sets
adds support to the request firmware API to load the firmware directly
into a pre-allocated buffer, skipping the intermediate copying step and
alleviating memory pressure during firmware loading. The drawback is
that we can't use the firmware caching feature because the memory for
the firmware cache is not managed by the firmware layer.
This patch (of 3):
We use similar structured code to read and write the kmapped firmware
pages. The only difference is read copies from the kmap region and
write copies to it. Consolidate this into one function to reduce
duplication.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160607164741.31849-2-stephen.boyd@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
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