On 12/20/2015 04:20 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
I hit this warning fairly frequently when resuming 4.4-rc5:

         ret = usermodehelper_read_trylock();
         if (WARN_ON(ret)) {
             dev_err(device, "firmware: %s will not be loaded\n",
                 name);
             goto out;
         }

It seems like it could be improved in two ways fairly easily:

1. Shouldn't firmware_class try the direct load before trying to get
the usermodehelper lock?

2. Why is the !NOWAIT case doing a trylock?  That seems wrong.

--Andy


I saw the same warning coming from the bluetooth stack, see the thread
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1950940 and
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1940130.
At least in the bluetooth case, the conclusion was the firmware request
should not be happening at that point in time and the reset_resume function
should be implemented instead. I put that work aside and haven't picked
it up again.

Thanks,
Laura
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