Skip to content
Commit b1c03308 authored by Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar Rafael J. Wysocki
Browse files

ACPI: EC: Look for ECDT EC after calling acpi_load_tables()

Some systems have had functional issues since commit 5a8361f7
(ACPICA: Integrate package handling with module-level code) that,
among other things, changed the initial values of the
acpi_gbl_group_module_level_code and acpi_gbl_parse_table_as_term_list
global flags in ACPICA which implicitly caused acpi_ec_ecdt_probe() to
be called before acpi_load_tables() on the vast majority of platforms.

Namely, before commit 5a8361f7, acpi_load_tables() was called from
acpi_early_init() if acpi_gbl_parse_table_as_term_list was FALSE and
acpi_gbl_group_module_level_code was TRUE, which almost always was
the case as FALSE and TRUE were their initial values, respectively.
The acpi_gbl_parse_table_as_term_list value would be changed to TRUE
for a couple of platforms in acpi_quirks_dmi_table[], but it remained
FALSE in the vast majority of cases.

After commit 5a8361f7, the initial values of the two flags have
been reversed, so in effect acpi_load_tables() has not been called
from acpi_early_init() any more.  That, in turn, affects
acpi_ec_ecdt_probe() which is invoked before acpi_load_tables() now
and it is not possible to evaluate the _REG method for the EC address
space handler installed by it.  That effectively causes the EC address
space to be inaccessible to AML on platforms with an ECDT matching the
EC device definition in the DSDT and functional problems ensue in
there.

Because the default behavior before commit 5a8361f7 was to call
acpi_ec_ecdt_probe() after acpi_load_tables(), it should be safe to
do that again.  Moreover, the EC address space handler installed by
acpi_ec_ecdt_probe() is only needed for AML to be able to access the
EC address space and the only AML that can run during acpi_load_tables()
is module-level code which only is allowed to access address spaces
with default handlers (memory, I/O and PCI config space).

For this reason, move the acpi_ec_ecdt_probe() invocation back to
acpi_bus_init(), from where it was taken away by commit d737f333
(ACPI: probe ECDT before loading AML tables regardless of module-level
code flag), and put it after the invocation of acpi_load_tables() to
restore the original code ordering from before commit 5a8361f7.

Fixes: 5a8361f7 ("ACPICA: Integrate package handling with module-level code")
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199981


Reported-by: default avatarstep-ali <sunmooon15@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarCharles Stanhope <charles.stanhope@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarCharles Stanhope <charles.stanhope@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarPaulo Nascimento <paulo.ulusu@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDavid Purton <dcpurton@marshwiggle.net>
Reported-by: default avatarAdam Harvey <adam@adamharvey.name>
Reported-by: default avatarZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJean-Marc Lenoir <archlinux@jihemel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent 1c7fc5cb
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment