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Stephen Boyd a098ecd2fa firmware: support loading into a pre-allocated buffer 
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>
2016-08-02 19:35:10 -04:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
adfs vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash 2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
affs vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash 2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
afs rxrpc: Limit the listening backlog 2016-06-10 18:14:47 -07:00
autofs4 Merge branch 'salted-string-hash' 2016-07-28 12:26:31 -07:00
befs fs/befs/io.c:befs_bread(): remove unneeded initialization to NULL 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
bfs more trivial ->iterate_shared conversions 2016-05-09 11:41:14 -04:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2016-07-31 21:27:32 -04:00
cachefiles Merge branch 'd_real' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs into work.misc 2016-06-30 23:34:49 -04:00
ceph Merge branch 'salted-string-hash' 2016-07-28 12:26:31 -07:00
cifs Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2016-07-29 11:29:13 -07:00
coda drop redundant ->owner initializations 2016-05-29 19:08:00 -04:00
configfs configfs: don't set buffer_needs_fill to zero if show() returns error 2016-07-10 21:02:18 +09:00
cramfs more trivial ->iterate_shared conversions 2016-05-09 11:41:14 -04:00
crypto block, fs, mm, drivers: use bio set/get op accessors 2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
debugfs Merge branch 'd_real' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs into work.misc 2016-06-30 23:34:49 -04:00
devpts userns: Remove the now unnecessary FS_USERNS_DEV_MOUNT flag 2016-06-23 15:47:31 -05:00
dlm dlm: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy 2016-06-23 11:55:58 -05:00
ecryptfs ecryptfs: don't allow mmap when the lower fs doesn't support it 2016-07-08 10:35:28 -05:00
efivarfs vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash 2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
efs fs/efs/super.c: fix return value 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
exofs block, fs, mm, drivers: use bio set/get op accessors 2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
exportfs introduce a parallel variant of ->iterate() 2016-05-02 19:49:29 -04:00
ext2 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-07-26 19:55:54 -07:00
ext4 Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
f2fs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
fat Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2016-07-28 14:22:25 -07:00
freevxfs freevxfs: update Kconfig information 2016-06-13 10:20:39 +02:00
fscache Merge branch 'd_real' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs into work.misc 2016-06-30 23:34:49 -04:00
fuse Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse 2016-07-29 12:29:15 -07:00
gfs2 Merge branch 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-07-26 15:37:51 -07:00
hfs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
hfsplus Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
hostfs hostfs: switch to ->iterate_shared() 2016-05-12 19:49:30 -04:00
hpfs vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash 2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
hugetlbfs mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
isofs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
jbd2 The major change this cycle is deleting ext4's copy of the file system 2016-07-26 18:35:55 -07:00
jffs2 vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash 2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
jfs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
kernfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
lockd Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
logfs Merge branch 'salted-string-hash' 2016-07-28 12:26:31 -07:00
minix simple local filesystems: switch to ->iterate_shared() 2016-05-02 19:49:32 -04:00
ncpfs vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash 2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
nfs NFS client updates for Linux 4.8 2016-07-30 16:33:25 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
nilfs2 Merge branch 'for-4.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-07-26 15:03:07 -07:00
nls
notify fsnotify: avoid spurious EMFILE errors from inotify_init() 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
ntfs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
ocfs2 ocfs2/dlm: continue to purge recovery lockres when recovery master goes down 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
omfs more trivial ->iterate_shared conversions 2016-05-09 11:41:14 -04:00
openpromfs more trivial ->iterate_shared conversions 2016-05-09 11:41:14 -04:00
orangefs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
overlayfs ovl: simplify empty checking 2016-07-29 12:05:25 +02:00
proc fs/proc/task_mmu.c: suppress compilation warnings with W=1 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
pstore pstore/ram: add Device Tree bindings 2016-06-14 11:34:39 -07:00
qnx4 more trivial ->iterate_shared conversions 2016-05-09 11:41:14 -04:00
qnx6 more trivial ->iterate_shared conversions 2016-05-09 11:41:14 -04:00
quota Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
ramfs tmpfs/ramfs: fix VM_MAYSHARE mappings for NOMMU 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
reiserfs Merge branch 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-07-26 15:37:51 -07:00
romfs romfs, squashfs: switch to ->iterate_shared() 2016-05-09 11:41:15 -04:00
squashfs fs: have ll_rw_block users pass in op and flags separately 2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
sysfs kernfs: The cgroup filesystem also benefits from SB_I_NOEXEC 2016-06-23 15:41:56 -05:00
sysv vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash 2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
tracefs tracefs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative... 2016-05-29 16:22:07 -04:00
ubifs UBIFS: Implement ->migratepage() 2016-06-23 00:29:53 +02:00
udf Merge branch 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-07-26 15:37:51 -07:00
ufs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
xfs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
aio.c aio: make aio_setup_ring killable 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c vfs: Don't modify inodes with a uid or gid unknown to the vfs 2016-07-05 15:06:46 -05:00
bad_inode.c switch ->setxattr() to passing dentry and inode separately 2016-05-27 20:09:16 -04:00
binfmt_aout.c fs: fix binfmt_aout.c build error 2016-05-28 16:34:59 -07:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c coredump: fix dumping through pipes 2016-06-07 22:07:09 -04:00
binfmt_elf.c coredump: fix dumping through pipes 2016-06-07 22:07:09 -04:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses 2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00
binfmt_misc.c binfmt_misc: ->s_root is not going anywhere 2016-05-29 19:14:03 -04:00
binfmt_script.c
block_dev.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
buffer.c xfs: update for 4.8-rc1 2016-07-27 09:53:35 -07:00
char_dev.c chardev: add missing line break in pr_warn 2016-07-14 16:21:53 +09:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c [media] cec: add compat32 ioctl support 2016-06-28 10:00:13 -03:00
compat.c Fix a number of bugs, most notably a potential stale data exposure 2016-05-24 12:55:26 -07:00
coredump.c coredump: fix dumping through pipes 2016-06-07 22:07:09 -04:00
dax.c libnvdimm for 4.8 2016-07-28 17:38:16 -07:00
dcache.c Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-07-28 12:59:05 -07:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c direct-io: use bio set/get op accessors 2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c eventfd: document lockless access in eventfd_poll 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
eventpoll.c fs: poll/select/recvmmsg: use timespec64 for timeout events 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
exec.c firmware: support loading into a pre-allocated buffer 2016-08-02 19:35:10 -04:00
fcntl.c
fhandle.c fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
file_table.c
file.c give readdir(2)/getdents(2)/etc. uniform exclusion with lseek() 2016-05-02 19:49:28 -04:00
filesystems.c
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c mm: move most file-based accounting to the node 2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
inode.c radix-tree: account nodes to memcg only if explicitly requested 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
internal.h xfs: update for 4.8-rc1 2016-07-27 09:53:35 -07:00
ioctl.c vfs: ioctl: prevent double-fetch in dedupe ioctl 2016-07-28 15:23:12 -07:00
iomap.c fs: iomap based fiemap implementation 2016-06-21 09:38:45 +10:00
Kconfig fs: introduce iomap infrastructure 2016-06-21 09:23:11 +10:00
Kconfig.binfmt ELF/MIPS build fix 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
libfs.c lockless next_positive() 2016-06-20 17:11:29 -04:00
locks.c locks: use file_inode() 2016-07-01 10:24:18 -04:00
Makefile fs: introduce iomap infrastructure 2016-06-21 09:23:11 +10:00
mbcache.c mbcache: add reusable flag to cache entries 2016-02-22 22:44:04 -05:00
mount.h
mpage.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-07-26 19:55:54 -07:00
namei.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c
open.c vfs: merge .d_select_inode() into .d_real() 2016-06-30 08:53:27 +02:00
pipe.c pipe: account to kmemcg 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
pnode.c propogate_mnt: Handle the first propogated copy being a slave 2016-05-05 09:54:45 -05:00
pnode.h
posix_acl.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
proc_namespace.c vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method 2016-03-16 13:09:08 -04:00
read_write.c x86/syscalls: Add compat_sys_preadv64v2/compat_sys_pwritev64v2 2016-07-15 10:30:26 +02:00
readdir.c restore killability of old mutex_lock_killable(&inode->i_mutex) users 2016-05-26 00:13:25 -04:00
select.c fs: poll/select/recvmmsg: use timespec64 for timeout events 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
seq_file.c Make file credentials available to the seqfile interfaces 2016-04-14 12:56:09 -07:00
signalfd.c
splice.c Merge branch 'ovl-fixes' into for-linus 2016-05-11 00:00:29 -04:00
stack.c
stat.c
statfs.c
super.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-07-29 15:54:19 -07:00
sync.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
timerfd.c timerfd: Reject ALARM timerfds without CAP_WAKE_ALARM 2016-06-09 23:42:38 +02:00
userfaultfd.c mm: introduce fault_env 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
utimes.c
xattr.c vfs: Don't modify inodes with a uid or gid unknown to the vfs 2016-07-05 15:06:46 -05:00