[PATCH v4 1/3] ACPI / EC: Fix possible driver order issue by moving EC event handling earlier

From: Lv Zheng
Date: Thu Aug 31 2017 - 04:11:29 EST


This patch tries to detect EC events earlier after resume, so that if an
event occurred before invoking acpi_ec_unblock_transactions(), it could be
detected by acpi_ec_unblock_transactions() which is the earliest EC driver
call after resume.

However after the noirq stage, if an event ocurred after
acpi_ec_unblock_transactions() and before acpi_ec_resume(), there was no
mean to detect and trigger it, finally it could cause EC event handling
stuck. Thus this patch also adds a detection in acpi_ec_resume(), trying to
recover from the affection of the noirq stage.

The background of the affection:
EC IRQs contain transaction IRQs (OBF/IBF) and event IRQ (SCI_EVT).
1. Transactions are initiated by hosts. The earliest OSPMs execution of
EC transactions is from acpi_ec_transaction(), where the common EC IRQ
handling procedure - advance_transaction() - is initiated from the
task context.
2. Events are initiated by targets. The earliest OSPMs execution of EC
events is from acpi_ec_gpe_handler(), where the common EC IRQ handling
procedure - advance_transaction() - is initiated from the IRQ context.
During suspend/resume noirq stage, IRQ is disabled, advance_transaction()
which detects SCI_EVT can only be invoked from task context - ec_poll().
Thus if there is no EC transaction occurring in this stage, EC driver
cannot detect SCI_EVT. And the worst case is if there is no EC
transaction after resume, EC event handling will stuck (FW flags SCI_EVT,
but there is no triggering source for OS SW to detect it).

Now the final logic is:
1. If ec_freeze_events=Y, event handling is stopped in acpi_ec_suspend(),
restarted in acpi_ec_resume();
2. If ec_freeze_events=N, event handling is stopped in
acpi_ec_block_transactions(), restarted in
acpi_ec_unblock_transactions();
3. In order to handling the conflict of the edge-trigger nature of EC IRQ
and the Linux noirq stage, advance_transaction() is invoked where the
event handling is enabled and the noirq stage is ended.

Known issue:
1. Event ocurred between acpi_ec_unblock_transactions() and
acpi_ec_resume() may still lead to the order issue. This can only be
fixed by adding a periodic detection mechanism during the noirq stage.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Tomislav Ivek <tomislav.ivek@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/ec.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
index fdfae6f..3dc4205 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -486,8 +486,11 @@ static inline void __acpi_ec_enable_event(struct acpi_ec *ec)
{
if (!test_and_set_bit(EC_FLAGS_QUERY_ENABLED, &ec->flags))
ec_log_drv("event unblocked");
- if (!test_bit(EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING, &ec->flags))
- advance_transaction(ec);
+ /*
+ * Unconditionally invoke this once after enabling the event
+ * handling mechanism to detect the pending events.
+ */
+ advance_transaction(ec);
}

static inline void __acpi_ec_disable_event(struct acpi_ec *ec)
@@ -945,7 +948,8 @@ static void acpi_ec_start(struct acpi_ec *ec, bool resuming)
if (!resuming) {
acpi_ec_submit_request(ec);
ec_dbg_ref(ec, "Increase driver");
- }
+ } else if (!ec_freeze_events)
+ __acpi_ec_enable_event(ec);
ec_log_drv("EC started");
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ec->lock, flags);
@@ -1929,7 +1933,18 @@ static int acpi_ec_resume(struct device *dev)
struct acpi_ec *ec =
acpi_driver_data(to_acpi_device(dev));

- acpi_ec_enable_event(ec);
+ if (ec_freeze_events)
+ acpi_ec_enable_event(ec);
+ else {
+ /*
+ * Though whether there is an event pending has been
+ * checked in acpi_ec_unblock_transactions() when
+ * ec_freeze_events=N, check it one more time after noirq
+ * stage to detect events occurred after
+ * acpi_ec_unblock_transactions().
+ */
+ advance_transaction(ec);
+ }
return 0;
}
#endif
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2.7.4