Hi All, Here is v2 of my series fixing some ECDT EC probe ordering issues which are causing issues om some laptops: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214899 This is a RFC because fixing this requires some ACPICA changes which obviously need to go upstream through the ACPICA project. The problem this fixed is best described by the commit message of patch 2: ACPI-2.0 says that the EC OpRegion handler must be available immediately (like the standard default OpRegion handlers): Quoting from the ACPI spec version 6.3: "6.5.4 _REG (Region) ... 2. OSPM must make Embedded Controller operation regions, accessed via the Embedded Controllers described in ECDT, available before executing any control method. These operation regions may become inaccessible after OSPM runs _REG(EmbeddedControl, 0)." So acpi_bus_init() calls acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(), which calls acpi_install_address_space_handler() to install the EC's OpRegion handler, early on. This not only installs the OpRegion handler, but also calls the EC's _REG method. The _REG method call is a problem because it may rely on initialization done by the _INI methods of one of the PCI / _SB root devs, see for example: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214899 . Generally speaking _REG methods are executed when the ACPI-device they are part of has a driver bound to it. Where as _INI methods must be executed at table load time (according to the spec). The problem here is that the early acpi_install_address_space_handler() call causes the _REG handler to run too early. To allow fixing this the ACPICA code now allows to split the OpRegion handler installation and the executing of _REG into 2 separate steps. This commit uses this ACPICA functionality to fix the EC probe ordering by delaying the executing of _REG for ECDT described ECs till the matching EC device in the DSDT gets parsed and acpi_ec_add() for it gets called. This moves the calling of _REG for the EC on devices with an ECDT to the same point in time where it is called on devices without an ECDT table. Regards, Hans Hans de Goede (2): ACPICA: Make address_space_handler Install and _REG execution 2 separate steps ACPI: EC: fix ECDT probe ordering issues drivers/acpi/acpica/evxfregn.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++------------ drivers/acpi/ec.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------- include/acpi/acpixf.h | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- include/acpi/actypes.h | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) -- 2.36.0
