linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:37:37 +0800
From:	Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@...el.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:52 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 6/24/08, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > i havent seen the warning reappear with your fix after thousands of
> > bootups - so i guess we can consider it fixed.
> >
> > Len, please consider the patch below. (it's in tip/out-of-tree)
> 
> No, please don't :-)
> 
> It fixes your particular case (the acpi_rtc_init() hunk of the patch),
> but the acpi_walk_namespace() part should be changed to a WARN(). But
> that is likely to cause a lot of "spurious" reports, so the other acpi
> drivers should be fixed as well.
In fact this issue is related with the following factors:
   a. when acpi is disabled, OS won't initialize the ACPI mutex, which
is accessed by many ACPI interface functions. For example:
acpi_walk_namespace, acpi_install_fixed_event_handler.
   b. When acpi is disabled, some drivers will call the ACPI interface
functions. For example: The acpi_walk_namespace is called in
dock_init/bay_init. The acpi_install_fixed_event_handler is called in
the acpi_rtc_init.
   
  
   Although the following warning message is harmless, it is still
confusing.
   > [    3.980213] ACPI Exception (utmutex-0263): AE_BAD_PARAMETER,
Thread F7C50000 could not acquire Mutex [3] [20080321]

   Maybe it is reasonable that the flag of acpi_disabled should be used
in the drivers using ACPI interface functions. Of course it will be safe
to use the flag of acpi_disabled in the function of acpi_walk_namespace.

Thanks.
   Yakui.
> I was waiting for Len to reply, but maybe I can submit the proper fix too.
> 
> 
> Vegard
> 

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