There is platform refusing to respond QR_EC when SCI_EVT isn't set. A known such platform is Acer Aspire V5-573G. Currently we rely on the behaviour that the EC firmware can respond something (for example, 0x00 to indicate "no outstanding events") to QR_EC even when SCI_EVT is not set. But reporter has complained for AC/battery pluging/unpluging, video brightness change delay on such platform. This is because the work item that has issued QR_EC has to wait until timeout in this case, and the _Qxx method evaluation work item queued after QR_EC one is delayed. It sounds reasonable to fix this issue by: 1. Implementing SCI_EVT sanity check before issuing QR_EC in the EC driver's main state machine. 2. Moving QR_EC issuing out of the work queue used by _Qxx evaluation to a seperate IRQ handling thread. This patch fixes this issue using solution 1. The solution 2 has been implemented by another already published patch: "https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/21/41";. By disallowing QR_EC to be issued when SCI_EVT isn't set, we are able to handle such platform in the EC driver's main state machine. This patch enhances the state machine in this way to survive with such malfunctioning EC firmware. Note that this patch can also fix CLEAR_ON_RESUME quirk which also relies on the assumption that the platforms are able to respond even when SCI_EVT isn't set. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82611 Reported-and-tested-by: Alexander Mezin <mezin.alexander@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c index a66ab65..5e1ed31 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ static bool advance_transaction(struct acpi_ec *ec) t->rdata[t->ri++] = acpi_ec_read_data(ec); if (t->rlen == t->ri) { t->flags |= ACPI_EC_COMMAND_COMPLETE; + if (t->command == ACPI_EC_COMMAND_QUERY) + pr_debug("hardware QR_EC completion\n"); wakeup = true; } } else @@ -208,7 +210,20 @@ static bool advance_transaction(struct acpi_ec *ec) } return wakeup; } else { - if ((status & ACPI_EC_FLAG_IBF) == 0) { + /* + * There is firmware refusing to respond QR_EC when SCI_EVT + * is not set, for which case, we complete the QR_EC + * without issuing it to the firmware. + * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86211 + */ + if (!(status & ACPI_EC_FLAG_SCI) && + (t->command == ACPI_EC_COMMAND_QUERY)) { + t->flags |= ACPI_EC_COMMAND_POLL; + t->rdata[t->ri++] = 0x00; + t->flags |= ACPI_EC_COMMAND_COMPLETE; + pr_debug("software QR_EC completion\n"); + wakeup = true; + } else if ((status & ACPI_EC_FLAG_IBF) == 0) { acpi_ec_write_cmd(ec, t->command); t->flags |= ACPI_EC_COMMAND_POLL; } else -- 1.7.10 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
