[PATCH v2] ACPI: Fix selecting the wrong ACPI fwnode for the iGPU on some Dell laptops

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Jan 10 15:30:28 UTC 2023


The Dell Latitude E6430 both with and without the optional NVidia dGPU
has a bug in its ACPI tables which is causing Linux to assign the wrong
ACPI fwnode / companion to the pci_device for the i915 iGPU.

Specifically under the PCI root bridge there are these 2 ACPI Device()s :

 Scope (_SB.PCI0)
 {
     Device (GFX0)
     {
         Name (_ADR, 0x00020000)  // _ADR: Address
     }

     ...

     Device (VID)
     {
         Name (_ADR, 0x00020000)  // _ADR: Address
         ...

         Method (_DOS, 1, NotSerialized)  // _DOS: Disable Output Switching
         {
             VDP8 = Arg0
             VDP1 (One, VDP8)
         }

         Method (_DOD, 0, NotSerialized)  // _DOD: Display Output Devices
         {
             ...
         }
         ...
     }
 }

The non-functional GFX0 ACPI device is a problem, because this gets
returned as ACPI companion-device by acpi_find_child_device() for the iGPU.

This is a long standing problem and the i915 driver does use the ACPI
companion for some things, but works fine without it.

However since commit 63f534b8bad9 ("ACPI: PCI: Rework acpi_get_pci_dev()")
acpi_get_pci_dev() relies on the physical-node pointer in the acpi_device
and that is set on the wrong acpi_device because of the wrong
acpi_find_child_device() return. This breaks the ACPI video code,
leading to non working backlight control in some cases.

Add a type.backlight flag, mark ACPI video bus devices with this and make
find_child_checks() return a higher score for children with this flag set,
so that it picks the right companion-device.

Co-developed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Switch to Rafael's suggested implementation using a type.backlight flag
  and only make find_child_checks() return a higher score when this is set
---
 drivers/acpi/glue.c     | 14 ++++++++++++--
 drivers/acpi/scan.c     |  7 +++++--
 include/acpi/acpi_bus.h |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/glue.c b/drivers/acpi/glue.c
index 204fe94c7e45..a194f30876c5 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/glue.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/glue.c
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ static struct acpi_bus_type *acpi_get_bus_type(struct device *dev)
 }
 
 #define FIND_CHILD_MIN_SCORE	1
-#define FIND_CHILD_MAX_SCORE	2
+#define FIND_CHILD_MID_SCORE	2
+#define FIND_CHILD_MAX_SCORE	3
 
 static int match_any(struct acpi_device *adev, void *not_used)
 {
@@ -96,8 +97,17 @@ static int find_child_checks(struct acpi_device *adev, bool check_children)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	status = acpi_evaluate_integer(adev->handle, "_STA", NULL, &sta);
-	if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND)
+	if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND) {
+		/*
+		 * Special case: backlight device objects without _STA are
+		 * preferred to other objects with the same _ADR value, because
+		 * it is more likely that they are actually useful.
+		 */
+		if (adev->pnp.type.backlight)
+			return FIND_CHILD_MID_SCORE;
+
 		return FIND_CHILD_MIN_SCORE;
+	}
 
 	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !(sta & ACPI_STA_DEVICE_ENABLED))
 		return -ENODEV;
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
index 274344434282..0c6f06abe3f4 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
@@ -1370,9 +1370,12 @@ static void acpi_set_pnp_ids(acpi_handle handle, struct acpi_device_pnp *pnp,
 		 * Some devices don't reliably have _HIDs & _CIDs, so add
 		 * synthetic HIDs to make sure drivers can find them.
 		 */
-		if (acpi_is_video_device(handle))
+		if (acpi_is_video_device(handle)) {
 			acpi_add_id(pnp, ACPI_VIDEO_HID);
-		else if (acpi_bay_match(handle))
+			pnp->type.backlight = 1;
+			break;
+		}
+		if (acpi_bay_match(handle))
 			acpi_add_id(pnp, ACPI_BAY_HID);
 		else if (acpi_dock_match(handle))
 			acpi_add_id(pnp, ACPI_DOCK_HID);
diff --git a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
index cd3b75e08ec3..e44be31115a6 100644
--- a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
+++ b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ struct acpi_pnp_type {
 	u32 hardware_id:1;
 	u32 bus_address:1;
 	u32 platform_id:1;
-	u32 reserved:29;
+	u32 backlight:1;
+	u32 reserved:28;
 };
 
 struct acpi_device_pnp {
-- 
2.39.0



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