On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 01:30:23PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 July 2016 12:14:55 Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > The whole point of this patch is that we expect that nobody never
> > uses that OpRegion. I'm 99% sure you don't find a single machine
> > where it is actually in use.
>
> HP EliteBook 8460p uses it for sure! Here are DSDT snips:
>
>
> Method (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.SMAB, 3, Serialized)
> {
> If (LEqual (And (Arg0, 0x01), 0x00))
> {
> Store (0x01, Local0)
> Store (\_SB.PCI0.SBUS.SWRB (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2), Local1)
> If (Local1)
> {
> Store (0x00, Local0)
> }
> }
> Else
> {
> Store (\_SB.PCI0.SBUS.SRDB (Arg0, Arg1), Local0)
> }
>
> Return (Local0)
> }
>
Crap, well that is in that 1% then ;-)
> ...
>
> Method (ALRD, 1, Serialized)
> {
> Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.SMAB (0x33, Arg0, 0x00), Local0)
> Return (Local0)
> }
>
> Method (ALWR, 2, Serialized)
> {
> Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.SMAB (0x32, Arg0, Arg1), Local0)
> Return (Local0)
> }
>
>
> And ALRD and ALWR methods are used by hp_accel.ko kernel driver.
So are you able to test what happens when you unload the driver? I think
the safest thing to do is that we just pin the driver in the kernel once
we notice the OpRegion is being accessed. Does anyone else have better
ideas?
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