From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Following some discussions during the Kernel Summit and LPC, document what can be returned from ACPI _DSD as device properties and when it is valid to use the special PRP0001 device ID. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> --- Here's my follow-up to the discussions we had during the KS and LPC. Please let me know if that's sufficient or it needs to be extended somehow. Thanks, Rafael --- Documentation/acpi/DSD-properties-rules.txt | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt | 9 ++ 2 files changed, 106 insertions(+) Index: linux-pm/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt =================================================================== --- linux-pm.orig/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt +++ linux-pm/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt @@ -415,3 +415,12 @@ the "compatible" property in the _DSD or ancestors provides a _DSD with a valid "compatible" property. Such device objects are then simply regarded as additional "blocks" providing hierarchical configuration information to the driver of the composite ancestor device. + +However, PRP0001 can only be returned from either _HID or _CID of a device +object if all of the properties returned by the _DSD associated with it (either +the _DSD of the device object itself or the _DSD of its ancestor in the +"composite device" case described above) can be used in the ACPI environment. +Otherwise, the _DSD itself is regarded as invalid and therefore the "compatible" +property returned by it is meaningless. + +Refer to DSD-properties-rules.txt for more information. Index: linux-pm/Documentation/acpi/DSD-properties-rules.txt =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ linux-pm/Documentation/acpi/DSD-properties-rules.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +_DSD Device Properties Usage Rules +---------------------------------- + +Properties, Property Sets and Property Subsets +---------------------------------------------- + +The _DSD (Device Specific Data) configuration object, introduced in ACPI 5.1, +allows any type of device configuration data to be provided via the ACPI +namespace. In principle, the format of the data may be arbitrary, but it has to +be identified by a UUID which must be recognized by the driver processing the +_DSD output. However, there are generic UUIDs defined for _DSD recognized by +the ACPI subsystem in the Linux kernel which automatically processes the data +packages associated with them and makes those data available to device drivers +as "device properties". + +A device property is a data item consisting of a string key and a value (of a +specific type) associated with it. + +In the ACPI _DSD context it is an element of the sub-package following the +generic Device Properties UUID in the _DSD return package as specified in the +Device Properties UUID definition document [1]. + +It also may be regarded as the definition of a key and the associated data type +that can be returned by _DSD in the Device Properties UUID sub-package for a +given device. + +A property set is a collection of properties applicable to a hardware entity +like a device. In the ACPI _DSD context it is the set of all properties that +can be returned in the Device Properties UUID sub-package for the device in +question. + +Property subsets are nested collections of properties. Each of them is +associated with an additional key (name) allowing the subset to be referred +to as a whole (and to be treated as a separate entity). The canonical +representation of property subsets is via the mechanism specified in the +Hierarchical Properties Extension UUID definition document [2]. + +Property sets may be hierarchical. That is, a property set may contain +multiple property subsets that each may contain property subsets of its +own and so on. + +General Validity Rule for Property Sets +--------------------------------------- + +Valid property sets must follow the guidance given by the Device Properties UUID +definition document [1]. + +_DSD properties are intended to be used in addition to, and not instead of, the +existing mechanisms defined by the ACPI specification. Therefore, as a rule, +they should only be used if the ACPI specification does not make direct +provisions for handling the underlying use case. It generally is invalid to +return property sets which do not follow that rule from _DSD in data packages +associated with the Device Properties UUID. + +Additional Considerations +------------------------- + +There are cases in which, even if the general rule given above is followed in +principle, the property set may still not be regarded as a valid one. + +For example, that applies to device properties which may cause kernel code +(either a device driver or a library/subsystem) to access hardware in a way +possibly leading to a conflict with AML methods in the ACPI namespace. In +particular, that may happen if the kernel code uses device properties to +manipulate hardware normally controlled by ACPI methods related to power +management, like _PSx and _DSW (for device objects) or _ON and _OFF (for power +resource objects), or by ACPI device disabling/enabling methods, like _DIS and +_SRS. + +In all cases in which kernel code may do something that will confuse AML as a +result of using device properties, the device properties in question are not +suitable for the ACPI environment and consequently they cannot belong to a valid +property set. + +Property Sets and Device Tree Bindings +-------------------------------------- + +It often is useful to make _DSD return property sets that follow Device Tree +bindings. + +In those cases, however, the above validity considerations must be taken into +account in the first place and returning invalid property sets from _DSD must be +avoided. For this reason, it may not be possible to make _DSD return a property +set following the given DT binding literally and completely. Still, for the +sake of code re-use, it may make sense to provide as much of the configuration +data as possible in the form of device properties and complement that with an +ACPI-specific mechanism suitable for the use case at hand. + +In any case, property sets following DT bindings literally should not be +expected to automatically work in the ACPI environment regardless of their +contents. + +References +---------- + +[1] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-UUID.pdf +[2] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-hierarchical-data-extension-UUID-v1.1.pdf -- 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
