Hi, H.J.
IMO, the real problem is that EC address space handler is not installed.
please attach the full dmesg output of your patched kernel after boot.
thanks,
rui
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 10:51 +0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > CC linux-acpi mail list.
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 09:32 +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> can you send me the acpidump output of this machine please?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> rui
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 06:05 +0800, Lu, Hongjiu wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I have a broken BIOS, which generates thousands of kernel messages:
> >> >
> >> > Jun 28 14:13:26 gnu-18 kernel: [ 628.704003] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_EXIST, while evaluating GPE method [_L01] (20110112/evgpe-551)
> >> > Jun 28 14:13:26 gnu-18 kernel: [ 628.826752] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ECF2] (ffff88013763b6c0) [EmbeddedControl] (20110112/evregion-369)
> >> > Jun 28 14:13:26 gnu-18 kernel: [ 628.826761] ACPI Error: Region EmbeddedControl(0x3) has no handler (20110112/exfldio-292)
> >> > Jun 28 14:13:26 gnu-18 kernel: [ 628.826768] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L01] (Node ffff88013765a488), AE_NOT_EXIST (20110112/psparse-536)
> >> >
> >> > This patch avoids enabling GPE if GPE dispatch failed. Now I got only
> >> > one kernel message:
> >> >
> >> > Jun 28 14:38:51 gnu-18 kernel: [ 0.937479] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ECF2] (ffff88013763b6c0) [EmbeddedControl] (20110112/evregion-369)
> >> > Jun 28 14:38:51 gnu-18 kernel: [ 0.937485] ACPI Error: Region EmbeddedControl(0x3) has no handler (20110112/exfldio-292)
> >> > Jun 28 14:38:51 gnu-18 kernel: [ 0.937490] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L01] (Node ffff88013765a488), AE_NOT_EXIST (20110112/psparse-536)
> >> > Jun 28 14:38:51 gnu-18 kernel: [ 0.937502] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_EXIST, while evaluating GPE method [_L01] (20110112/evgpe-551)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > H.J.
> >> > ---
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpe.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpe.c
> >> > index f472521..5b1f4b2 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpe.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpe.c
> >> > @@ -559,11 +559,13 @@ static void ACPI_SYSTEM_XFACE acpi_ev_asynch_execute_gpe_method(void *context)
> >> >
> >> > /* Defer enabling of GPE until all notify handlers are done */
> >> >
> >> > - status = acpi_os_execute(OSL_NOTIFY_HANDLER,
> >> > - acpi_ev_asynch_enable_gpe,
> >> > - local_gpe_event_info);
> >> > - if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> >> > - ACPI_FREE(local_gpe_event_info);
> >> > + if (!ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> >> > + status = acpi_os_execute(OSL_NOTIFY_HANDLER,
> >> > + acpi_ev_asynch_enable_gpe,
> >> > + local_gpe_event_info);
> >> > + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> >> > + ACPI_FREE(local_gpe_event_info);
> >> > + }
> >> > }
> >> > return_VOID;
> >> > }
> >> >
>
> Here it is.
>
>
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