Re: [PATCH] ACPI / watchdog: Prefer iTCO_wdt on Lenovo Z50-70

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On Monday, April 23, 2018 1:16:03 PM CEST Mika Westerberg wrote:
> WDAT table on Lenovo Z50-70 is using RTC SRAM (ports 0x70 and 0x71) to
> store state of the timer. This conflicts with Linux RTC driver
> (rtc-cmos.c) who fails to reserve those ports for itself preventing RTC
> from functioning. In addition the WDAT table seems not to be fully
> functional because it does not reset the system when the watchdog times
> out.
> 
> On this system iTCO_wdt works just fine so we simply prefer to use it
> instead of WDAT. This makes RTC working again and also results working
> watchdog via iTCO_wdt.
> 
> Reported-by: Peter Milley <pbmilley@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199033
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c
> index ebb626ffb5fa..4bde16fb97d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c
> @@ -12,23 +12,64 @@
>  #define pr_fmt(fmt) "ACPI: watchdog: " fmt
>  
>  #include <linux/acpi.h>
> +#include <linux/dmi.h>
>  #include <linux/ioport.h>
>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
> +static const struct dmi_system_id acpi_watchdog_skip[] = {
> +	{
> +		/*
> +		 * On Lenovo Z50-70 there are two issues with the WDAT
> +		 * table. First some of the instructions use RTC SRAM
> +		 * to store persistent information. This does not work well
> +		 * with Linux RTC driver. Second, more important thing is
> +		 * that the instructions do not actually reset the system.
> +		 *
> +		 * On this particular system iTCO_wdt seems to work just
> +		 * fine so we prefer that over WDAT for now.
> +		 *
> +		 * See also https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199033.
> +		 */
> +		.ident = "Lenovo Z50-70",
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "20354"),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "Lenovo Z50-70"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{}
> +};
> +
> +static const struct acpi_table_wdat *acpi_watchdog_get_wdat(void)
> +{
> +	const struct acpi_table_wdat *wdat = NULL;
> +	acpi_status status;
> +
> +	if (acpi_disabled)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	if (dmi_check_system(acpi_watchdog_skip))
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_WDAT, 0,
> +				(struct acpi_table_header **)&wdat);
> +	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> +		/* It is fine if there is no WDAT */
> +		return NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	return wdat;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * Returns true if this system should prefer ACPI based watchdog instead of
>   * the native one (which are typically the same hardware).
>   */
>  bool acpi_has_watchdog(void)
>  {
> -	struct acpi_table_header hdr;
> -
> -	if (acpi_disabled)
> -		return false;
> -
> -	return ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_table_header(ACPI_SIG_WDAT, 0, &hdr));
> +	return !!acpi_watchdog_get_wdat();
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_has_watchdog);
>  
> @@ -41,12 +82,10 @@ void __init acpi_watchdog_init(void)
>  	struct platform_device *pdev;
>  	struct resource *resources;
>  	size_t nresources = 0;
> -	acpi_status status;
>  	int i;
>  
> -	status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_WDAT, 0,
> -				(struct acpi_table_header **)&wdat);
> -	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> +	wdat = acpi_watchdog_get_wdat();
> +	if (!wdat) {
>  		/* It is fine if there is no WDAT */
>  		return;
>  	}
> 

Applied and merged into 4.17-rc3, thanks!


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