Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: sysfs: Change ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX to 0x100

From: Dan Williams
Date: Sat Nov 16 2019 - 15:06:23 EST


On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:17 PM Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The commit 0f27cff8597d ("ACPI: sysfs: Make ACPI GPE mask kernel
> parameter cover all GPEs") says:
> "Use a bitmap of size 0xFF instead of a u64 for the GPE mask so 256
> GPEs can be masked"
>
> But the masking of GPE 0xFF it not supported and the check condition
> "gpe > ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX" is not valid because the type of gpe is
> u8.
>
> So modify the macro ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX to 0x100, and drop the "gpe >
> ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX" check. In addition, update the docs "Format" for
> acpi_mask_gpe parameter.
>
> Fixes: 0f27cff8597d ("ACPI: sysfs: Make ACPI GPE mask kernel parameter cover all GPEs")
> Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - drop the "gpe > ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX" check
> - update the docs "Format" from <int> to <byte> for acpi_mask_gpe parameter
> - update the commit comment
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Bisect flags commit eb09878e1301 "ACPI: sysfs: Change
ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX to 0x100" in -next as the reason for a boot
regression in my qemu-kvm test environment. It spews:

[ 1.456728] ACPI: Masking GPE 0x0.
...
[ 161.721420] ACPI: Masking GPE 0x0.

...and then hangs.

A straight revert gets the configuration back on its feet.

qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 4.0.50 (v4.0.0-928-g49c6c6ac0cd8)