This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Input: silead - add workaround for x86 BIOS-es which bring the chip up in a stuck state
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
input-silead-add-workaround-for-x86-bios-es-which-br.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a9c219d47372dca78a57750fc572c7d2eb1b8ef4
Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Apr 9 22:29:49 2021 -0700
Input: silead - add workaround for x86 BIOS-es which bring the chip up in a stuck state
[ Upstream commit e479187748a8f151a85116a7091c599b121fdea5 ]
Some buggy BIOS-es bring up the touchscreen-controller in a stuck
state where it blocks the I2C bus. Specifically this happens on
the Jumper EZpad 7 tablet model.
After much poking at this problem I have found that the following steps
are necessary to unstuck the chip / bus:
1. Turn off the Silead chip.
2. Try to do an I2C transfer with the chip, this will fail in response to
which the I2C-bus-driver will call: i2c_recover_bus() which will unstuck
the I2C-bus. Note the unstuck-ing of the I2C bus only works if we first
drop the chip of the bus by turning it off.
3. Turn the chip back on.
On the x86/ACPI systems were this problem is seen, step 1. and 3. require
making ACPI calls and dealing with ACPI Power Resources. This commit adds
a workaround which runtime-suspends the chip to turn it off, leaving it up
to the ACPI subsystem to deal with all the ACPI specific details.
There is no good way to detect this bug, so the workaround gets activated
by a new "silead,stuck-controller-bug" boolean device-property. Since this
is only used on x86/ACPI, this will be set by model specific device-props
set by drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c. Therefor this new
device-property is not documented in the DT-bindings.
Dmesg will contain the following messages on systems where the workaround
is activated:
[ 54.309029] silead_ts i2c-MSSL1680:00: [Firmware Bug]: Stuck I2C bus: please ignore the next 'controller timed out' error
[ 55.373593] i2c_designware 808622C1:04: controller timed out
[ 55.582186] silead_ts i2c-MSSL1680:00: Silead chip ID: 0x80360000
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210405202745.16777-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/silead.c b/drivers/input/touchscreen/silead.c
index ad8b6a2bfd36..c8776146f1d1 100644
--- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/silead.c
+++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/silead.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/input/mt.h>
#include <linux/input/touchscreen.h>
#include <linux/pm.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
#include <linux/irq.h>
#include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
@@ -335,10 +336,8 @@ static int silead_ts_get_id(struct i2c_client *client)
error = i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(client, SILEAD_REG_ID,
sizeof(chip_id), (u8 *)&chip_id);
- if (error < 0) {
- dev_err(&client->dev, "Chip ID read error %d\n", error);
+ if (error < 0)
return error;
- }
data->chip_id = le32_to_cpu(chip_id);
dev_info(&client->dev, "Silead chip ID: 0x%8X", data->chip_id);
@@ -351,12 +350,49 @@ static int silead_ts_setup(struct i2c_client *client)
int error;
u32 status;
+ /*
+ * Some buggy BIOS-es bring up the chip in a stuck state where it
+ * blocks the I2C bus. The following steps are necessary to
+ * unstuck the chip / bus:
+ * 1. Turn off the Silead chip.
+ * 2. Try to do an I2C transfer with the chip, this will fail in
+ * response to which the I2C-bus-driver will call:
+ * i2c_recover_bus() which will unstuck the I2C-bus. Note the
+ * unstuck-ing of the I2C bus only works if we first drop the
+ * chip off the bus by turning it off.
+ * 3. Turn the chip back on.
+ *
+ * On the x86/ACPI systems were this problem is seen, step 1. and
+ * 3. require making ACPI calls and dealing with ACPI Power
+ * Resources. The workaround below runtime-suspends the chip to
+ * turn it off, leaving it up to the ACPI subsystem to deal with
+ * this.
+ */
+
+ if (device_property_read_bool(&client->dev,
+ "silead,stuck-controller-bug")) {
+ pm_runtime_set_active(&client->dev);
+ pm_runtime_enable(&client->dev);
+ pm_runtime_allow(&client->dev);
+
+ pm_runtime_suspend(&client->dev);
+
+ dev_warn(&client->dev, FW_BUG "Stuck I2C bus: please ignore the next 'controller timed out' error\n");
+ silead_ts_get_id(client);
+
+ /* The forbid will also resume the device */
+ pm_runtime_forbid(&client->dev);
+ pm_runtime_disable(&client->dev);
+ }
+
silead_ts_set_power(client, SILEAD_POWER_OFF);
silead_ts_set_power(client, SILEAD_POWER_ON);
error = silead_ts_get_id(client);
- if (error)
+ if (error) {
+ dev_err(&client->dev, "Chip ID read error %d\n", error);
return error;
+ }
error = silead_ts_init(client);
if (error)
