[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] ACPI / bus: Introduce a list of ids for "always present" devices

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Mon Feb 27 13:30:25 UTC 2017


+Mika & Andy

On Saturday, February 25, 2017 07:23:28 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
> Several cherrytrail devices (all of which ship with windows 10) hide the
> lpss pwm controller in ACPI, typically the _STA method looks like this:
> 
>     Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)  // _STA: Status
>     {
>         If (OSID == One)
>         {
>             Return (Zero)
>         }
> 
>         Return (0x0F)
>     }
> 
> Where OSID is some dark magic seen in all cherrytrail ACPI tables making
> the machine behave differently depending on which OS it *thinks* it is
> booting, this gets set in a number of ways which we cannot control, on
> some newer machines it simple hardcoded to "One" aka win10.
> 
> This causes the PWM controller to get hidden, which means Linux cannot
> control the backlight level on cht based tablets / laptops.
> 
> Since loading the driver for this does no harm (the only in kernel user
> of it is the i915 driver, which will only use it when it needs it), this
> commit makes acpi_bus_get_status() always set status to ACPI_STA_DEFAULT
> for the 80862288 device, fixing the lack of backlight control.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/bus.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> index 95855cb..483d4d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> @@ -109,11 +109,36 @@ acpi_status acpi_bus_get_status_handle(acpi_handle handle,
>  	return status;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Some ACPI devices are hidden (status == 0x0) in recent BIOS-es because
> + * some recent windows drivers bind to one device but poke at multiple
> + * devices at the same time, so the others get hidden.
> + * We work around this by always reporting ACPI_STA_DEFAULT for these
> + * devices. Note this MUST only be done for devices where this is safe.
> + */
> +static const struct acpi_device_id always_present_device_ids[] = {
> +	/*
> +	 * Cherrytrail pwm directly poked by GPU driver in win10,
> +	 * but Linux uses a separate pwm driver, harmless if not used.
> +	 */
> +	{ "80862288", },
> +	{ }
> +};
> +
>  int acpi_bus_get_status(struct acpi_device *device)
>  {
>  	acpi_status status;
>  	unsigned long long sta;
>  
> +	/* acpi_match_device_ids checks status, so start with default */
> +	acpi_set_device_status(device, ACPI_STA_DEFAULT);

This shouldn't be done in a "get" routine.

Ideally, a scan handler should do that or similar.

> +	if (acpi_match_device_ids(device, always_present_device_ids) == 0) {
> +		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Device [%s] is in always present list setting status [%08x]\n",
> +				  device->pnp.bus_id, ACPI_STA_DEFAULT));

pr_debug() please.  The ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() stuff is basically for ACPICA
(yes, I know it is used elsewhere and no, it is not a good idea to do that).

> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +	acpi_set_device_status(device, 0);
> +
>  	status = acpi_bus_get_status_handle(device->handle, &sta);
>  	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>  		return -ENODEV;
> 

Thanks,
Rafael



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