[V10 1/8] ACPI: Add support for AMD ACPI based Wifi band RFI mitigation feature

Simon Horman horms at kernel.org
Sun Aug 27 15:43:12 UTC 2023


On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 04:38:39PM +0800, Evan Quan wrote:
> Due to electrical and mechanical constraints in certain platform designs
> there may be likely interference of relatively high-powered harmonics of
> the (G-)DDR memory clocks with local radio module frequency bands used
> by Wifi 6/6e/7.
> 
> To mitigate this, AMD has introduced a mechanism that devices can use to
> notify active use of particular frequencies so that other devices can make
> relative internal adjustments as necessary to avoid this resonance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Evan Quan <evan.quan at amd.com>

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> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/amd_wbrf.c b/drivers/acpi/amd_wbrf.c

...

> +/**
> + * acpi_amd_wbrf_add_exclusion - broadcast the frequency band the device
> + *                               is using
> + *
> + * @dev: device pointer
> + * @in: input structure containing the frequency band the device is using
> + *
> + * Broadcast to other consumers the frequency band the device starts
> + * to use. Underneath the surface the information is cached into an
> + * internal buffer first. Then a notification is sent to all those
> + * registered consumers. So then they can retrieve that buffer to
> + * know the latest active frequency bands. The benifit with such design

nit: ./checkpatch.pl --codespell suggests benifit -> benefit.

> + * is for those consumers which have not been registered yet, they can
> + * still have a chance to retrieve such information later.
> + */
> +int acpi_amd_wbrf_add_exclusion(struct device *dev,
> +				struct wbrf_ranges_in_out *in)
> +{
> +	struct acpi_device *adev = ACPI_COMPANION(dev);
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!adev)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	ret = wbrf_record(adev, WBRF_RECORD_ADD, in);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&wbrf_chain_head,
> +				     WBRF_CHANGED,
> +				     NULL);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_amd_wbrf_add_exclusion);

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