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Message-Id: <1393429360-4344-1-git-send-email-clancy.kieran@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:12:40 +1030
From:	Kieran Clancy <clancy.kieran@...il.com>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kieran Clancy <clancy.kieran@...il.com>,
	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	Juan Manuel Cabo <juanmanuel.cabo@...il.com>,
	Dennis Jansen <dennis.jansen@....de>
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / EC: Clear stale EC events on Samsung systems

A number of Samsung notebooks (530Uxx/535Uxx/540Uxx/550Pxx/900Xxx/etc)
continue to log events during sleep (lid open/close, AC plug/unplug,
battery level change), which accumulate in the EC until a buffer fills.
After the buffer is full (tests suggest it holds 8 events), GPEs stop
being triggered for new events. This state persists on wake or even on
power cycle, and prevents new events from being registered until the EC
is manually polled.

This is the root cause of a number of bugs, including AC not being
detected properly, lid close not triggering suspend, and low ambient
light not triggering the keyboard backlight. The bug also seemed to be
responsible for performance issues on at least one user's machine.

Juan Manuel Cabo found the cause of bug and the workaround of polling
the EC manually on wake.

This patch:
- Adds a function acpi_ec_clear() which polls the EC, at most
  ACPI_EC_CLEAR_MAX (currently 20) times. A warning is logged if this
  limit is reached.
- Adds a flag EC_FLAGS_CLEAR_ON_RESUME which is set to 1 if the DMI
  system vendor is Samsung. This check could be replaced by several more
  specific DMI vendor/product pairs, but it's likely that the bug
  affects more Samsung products than just the five series mentioned
  above. Further, it should not be harmful to run acpi_ec_clear() on
  systems without the bug; it will return immediately after finding no
  data waiting.
- Runs acpi_ec_clear() on initialisation (boot), from acpi_ec_add()
- Runs acpi_ec_clear() on wake, from acpi_ec_unblock_transactions()

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44161
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45461
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57271
Signed-off-by: Kieran Clancy <clancy.kieran@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Manuel Cabo <juanmanuel.cabo@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Jansen <dennis.jansen@....de>
Tested-by: Maurizio D'Addona <mauritiusdadd@...il.com>
Tested-by: San Zamoyski <san@...snet.pl>
---
 drivers/acpi/ec.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
index 959d41a..f437d9a 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ enum ec_command {
 #define ACPI_EC_DELAY		500	/* Wait 500ms max. during EC ops */
 #define ACPI_EC_UDELAY_GLK	1000	/* Wait 1ms max. to get global lock */
 #define ACPI_EC_MSI_UDELAY	550	/* Wait 550us for MSI EC */
+#define ACPI_EC_CLEAR_MAX	20	/* Maximum number of events to query
+					 * when trying to clear the EC */
 
 enum {
 	EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING,		/* Query is pending */
@@ -116,6 +118,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(first_ec);
 static int EC_FLAGS_MSI; /* Out-of-spec MSI controller */
 static int EC_FLAGS_VALIDATE_ECDT; /* ASUStec ECDTs need to be validated */
 static int EC_FLAGS_SKIP_DSDT_SCAN; /* Not all BIOS survive early DSDT scan */
+static int EC_FLAGS_CLEAR_ON_RESUME; /* EC should be polled on boot/resume */
 
 /* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              Transaction Management
@@ -440,6 +443,26 @@ acpi_handle ec_get_handle(void)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ec_get_handle);
 
+static int acpi_ec_query_unlocked(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 *data);
+
+/* run with locked ec mutex */
+static void acpi_ec_clear(struct acpi_ec *ec)
+{
+	int i, status;
+	u8 value = 0;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ACPI_EC_CLEAR_MAX; i++) {
+		status = acpi_ec_query_unlocked(ec, &value);
+		if (status || !value)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	if (i == ACPI_EC_CLEAR_MAX)
+		pr_warn("Warning: Maximum of %d stale EC events cleared\n", i);
+	else
+		pr_info("%d stale EC events cleared\n", i);
+}
+
 void acpi_ec_block_transactions(void)
 {
 	struct acpi_ec *ec = first_ec;
@@ -463,6 +486,10 @@ void acpi_ec_unblock_transactions(void)
 	mutex_lock(&ec->mutex);
 	/* Allow transactions to be carried out again */
 	clear_bit(EC_FLAGS_BLOCKED, &ec->flags);
+
+	if (EC_FLAGS_CLEAR_ON_RESUME)
+		acpi_ec_clear(ec);
+
 	mutex_unlock(&ec->mutex);
 }
 
@@ -821,6 +848,13 @@ static int acpi_ec_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 
 	/* EC is fully operational, allow queries */
 	clear_bit(EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING, &ec->flags);
+
+	/* Some hardware may need the EC to be cleared before use */
+	if (EC_FLAGS_CLEAR_ON_RESUME) {
+		mutex_lock(&ec->mutex);
+		acpi_ec_clear(ec);
+		mutex_unlock(&ec->mutex);
+	}
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -922,6 +956,30 @@ static int ec_enlarge_storm_threshold(const struct dmi_system_id *id)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * On some hardware it is necessary to clear events accumulated by the EC during
+ * sleep. These ECs stop reporting GPEs until they are manually polled, if too
+ * many events are accumulated. (e.g. Samsung Series 5/9 notebooks)
+ *
+ * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44161
+ *
+ * Ideally, the EC should also be instructed not to accumulate events during
+ * sleep (which Windows seems to do somehow), but the interface to control this
+ * behaviour is not known at this time.
+ *
+ * Models known to be affected are Samsung 530Uxx/535Uxx/540Uxx/550Pxx/900Xxx,
+ * however it is very likely that other Samsung models are affected.
+ *
+ * On systems which don't accumulate EC events during sleep, this extra check
+ * should be harmless.
+ */
+static int ec_clear_on_resume(const struct dmi_system_id *id)
+{
+	pr_debug("Detected system needing EC poll on resume.\n");
+	EC_FLAGS_CLEAR_ON_RESUME = 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct dmi_system_id ec_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
 	{
 	ec_skip_dsdt_scan, "Compal JFL92", {
@@ -965,6 +1023,9 @@ static struct dmi_system_id ec_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
 	ec_validate_ecdt, "ASUS hardware", {
 	DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "ASUSTek Computer Inc."),
 	DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "L4R"),}, NULL},
+	{
+	ec_clear_on_resume, "Samsung hardware", {
+	DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.")}, NULL},
 	{},
 };
 
-- 
1.8.5.3

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