From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usys...@intel.com>
On some platforms, currently Broxton, Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake,
ME FW may be busy with internal bookkeeping and answering late
to the start message.
As a mitigation, the driver requests for a synchronous probing
to prevent stalling of the overall boot process. For example,
on a Apollo Lake platform the overall boot time has reduced from
~0.9 to ~0.6 seconds on average.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usys...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.wink...@intel.com>
---
drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
index abaa2c485f40..3f4e36b8892f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ static struct pci_driver mei_me_driver = {
.remove = mei_me_remove,
.shutdown = mei_me_shutdown,
.driver.pm = MEI_ME_PM_OPS,
+ .driver.probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
};
module_pci_driver(mei_me_driver);
--
2.9.4
