Re: [RFT][PATCH v1] ACPI: OSL: Use a threaded interrupt handler for SCI

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Wed Nov 29 2023 - 04:01:57 EST


Hi Rafael,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 08:57:43PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the current arrangement, all of the acpi_ev_sci_xrupt_handler() code
> is run as an interrupt handler for the SCI, in interrupt context. Among
> other things, this causes it to run with local interrupts off which
> can be problematic if many GPEs are enabled and they are located in the
> I/O address space, for example (because in that case local interrupts
> will be off for the duration of all of the GPE hardware accesses carried
> out while handling an SCI combined and that may be quite a bit of time
> in extreme scenarios).
>
> However, there is no particular reason why the code in question really
> needs to run in interrupt context and in particular, it has no specific
> reason to run with local interrupts off. The only real requirement is
> to prevent multiple instences of it from running in parallel with each
> other, but that can be achieved regardless.
>
> For this reason, use request_threaded_irq() instead of request_irq() for
> the ACPI SCI and pass IRQF_ONESHOT to it in flags to indicate that the
> interrupt needs to be masked while its handling thread is running so as
> to prevent it from re-triggering while it is being handled (and in
> particular until the final handled/not handled outcome is determined).
>
> While at it, drop a redundant local variable from acpi_irq().
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> The code inspection and (necessarily limited) testing carried out by me
> are good indications that this should just always work, but there may
> be still some really odd platform configurations I'm overlooking, so if
> you have a way to give it a go, please do so.

Tried this on ADL-S and ADL-P systems that I have here and both work
just fine with the patch applied. I can see SCI interrupt count
increases in /proc/interrupts as expected. Did a couple of s2idle cycles
too, all good.

Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>