[RFC][PATCH 1/2] remoteproc: Reduce asynchronous request_firmware to auto-boot only

[Sarangdhar Joshi]

Hi Bjorn,

On 02/06/2017 01:08 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 24 Jan 15:13 PST 2017, Sarangdhar Joshi wrote:
>
>> The rproc_add_virtio_devices() requests firmware asynchronously and
>> triggers boot if the auto_boot flag is set. However, this
>> asynchronous call seems to be redundant for non auto-boot scenario
>> since the rproc_boot() would call request_firmware() anyways. Move
>> the auto_boot check to rproc_add() so that a redundant call to
>> _request_firmware can be avoided for non auto-boot case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sarangdhar Joshi <spjoshi at codeaurora.org>
>
> Looks good, applied both patches.

Thanks for the review and applying these(and couple others) patches.

Regards,
Sarang
>
> Regards,
> Bjorn
>
>> ---
>>
>> I'm requesting RFC on this patch since I'm not aware of any scenario
>> where we might need asynchronous firmware loading for non auto-boot case.
>>
>>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 14 ++++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
>> index f58e634..16242b0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
>> @@ -970,9 +970,7 @@ static void rproc_fw_config_virtio(const struct firmware *fw, void *context)
>>  {
>>  	struct rproc *rproc = context;
>>
>> -	/* if rproc is marked always-on, request it to boot */
>> -	if (rproc->auto_boot)
>> -		rproc_boot(rproc);
>> +	rproc_boot(rproc);
>>
>>  	release_firmware(fw);
>>  }
>> @@ -1286,9 +1284,13 @@ int rproc_add(struct rproc *rproc)
>>
>>  	/* create debugfs entries */
>>  	rproc_create_debug_dir(rproc);
>> -	ret = rproc_add_virtio_devices(rproc);
>> -	if (ret < 0)
>> -		return ret;
>> +
>> +	/* if rproc is marked always-on, request it to boot */
>> +	if (rproc->auto_boot) {
>> +		ret = rproc_add_virtio_devices(rproc);
>> +		if (ret < 0)
>> +			return ret;
>> +	}
>>
>>  	/* expose to rproc_get_by_phandle users */
>>  	mutex_lock(&rproc_list_mutex);
>> --
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