Re: [PATCH V3] ACPI/Battery: Retry to get Battery information if failed during probing

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jul 08 2014 - 16:27:53 EST


On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:47:12 PM Lan Tianyu wrote:
> Some machines'(E,G Lenovo Z480) ECs are not stable during boot up
> and causes battery driver fails to be loaded due to failure of getting
> battery information from EC sometimes. After several retries, the
> operation will work. This patch is to retry to get battery information 5
> times if the first try fails.
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: naszar <naszar@xxxxx>
> Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75581
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>

Queued up as a fix for 3.16, thanks!

> ---
> Change since V1:
> Change code style and add a comment.
>
> Change since V2:
> Change code style.
>
> drivers/acpi/battery.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> index e48fc98..cee5ee8 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
> #include <linux/dmi.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/suspend.h>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <asm/unaligned.h>
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
> @@ -1117,6 +1118,28 @@ static struct dmi_system_id bat_dmi_table[] = {
> {},
> };
>
> +/*
> + * Some machines'(E,G Lenovo Z480) ECs are not stable
> + * during boot up and this causes battery driver fails to be
> + * probed due to failure of getting battery information
> + * from EC sometimes. After several retries, the operation
> + * may work. So add retry code here and 20ms sleep between
> + * every retries.
> + */
> +static int acpi_battery_update_retry(struct acpi_battery *battery)
> +{
> + int retry, ret;
> +
> + for (retry = 5; retry; retry--) {
> + ret = acpi_battery_update(battery, false);
> + if (!ret)
> + break;
> +
> + msleep(20);
> + }
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_device *device)
> {
> int result = 0;
> @@ -1135,9 +1158,11 @@ static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_device *device)
> mutex_init(&battery->sysfs_lock);
> if (acpi_has_method(battery->device->handle, "_BIX"))
> set_bit(ACPI_BATTERY_XINFO_PRESENT, &battery->flags);
> - result = acpi_battery_update(battery, false);
> +
> + result = acpi_battery_update_retry(battery);
> if (result)
> goto fail;
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
> result = acpi_battery_add_fs(device);
> #endif
>

--
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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