Use the new helper, request_firmware_direct(), for avoiding the
lengthy timeout of non-existing firmware loads.  Especially the Intel
microcode driver suffers from this problem because each CPU triggers
the f/w loading, thus it ends up taking (literally) hours with many
cores.

Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c   | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index af99f71aeb7f..539a01a91210 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcode_amd(int cpu, 
struct device *device,
        if (c->x86 >= 0x15)
                snprintf(fw_name, sizeof(fw_name), 
"amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam%.2xh.bin", c->x86);
 
-       if (request_firmware(&fw, (const char *)fw_name, device)) {
+       if (request_firmware_direct(&fw, (const char *)fw_name, device)) {
                pr_err("failed to load file %s\n", fw_name);
                goto out;
        }
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c 
b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
index 5fb2cebf556b..a276fa75d9b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcode_fw(int cpu, 
struct device *device,
        sprintf(name, "intel-ucode/%02x-%02x-%02x",
                c->x86, c->x86_model, c->x86_mask);
 
-       if (request_firmware(&firmware, name, device)) {
+       if (request_firmware_direct(&firmware, name, device)) {
                pr_debug("data file %s load failed\n", name);
                return UCODE_NFOUND;
        }
-- 
1.8.4.1

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