linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Prefer ACPI system interfaces over SMBIOS ones

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Message-ID: <1d79c228-d6b3-807d-b370-ae062799660c@hpe.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Nov 2017 15:50:55 -0600
From:   Andrew Banman <abanman@....com>
To:     minyard@....org
Cc:     Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
        Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@....com>,
        Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Prefer ACPI system interfaces over SMBIOS ones

Corey,

This patch worked on my system. Thank you!

Tested-by: Andrew Banman <abanman@....com>

# insmod ipmi_si.ko; dmesg -c
[  225.793934] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: ipmi_si: probing via ACPI
[  225.799982] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: [io  0x0ce4-0x0ce6] regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 6
[  225.807953] ipmi_si: Adding ACPI-specified bt state machine
[  225.814202] IPMI System Interface driver.
[  225.818895] ipmi_si: probing via SMBIOS
[  225.823183] ipmi_si: SMBIOS: mem 0xce4 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 6
[  225.829894] ipmi_si: Adding SMBIOS-specified bt state machine
[  225.836318] ipmi_si: probing via SPMI
[  225.840411] ipmi_si: SPMI: io 0xce4 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 6
[  225.846832] (NULL device *): SPMI-specified bt state machine: duplicate
[  225.854220] ipmi_si: Trying ACPI-specified bt state machine at i/o address 
0xce4, slave address 0x0, irq 6
[  225.870711] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Using irq 6
[  225.875530] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x000000, prod_id: 
0x0101, dev_id: 0x20)
[  225.876266] IPMI BT: req2rsp=2 secs retries=1
[  225.890166] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: IPMI bt interface initialized
# rmmod ipmi_si.ko; dmesg -c
#

Andrew

On 11/9/17 1:48 PM, minyard@....org wrote:
> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
> 
> The recent changes to add SMBIOS (DMI) IPMI interfaces as platform
> devices caused DMI to be selected before ACPI, causing ACPI type
> of operations to not work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
> ---
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> I looked a bit more and found that I already had this queued for the
> next kernel release, it fixes your issue and another issue, too.
> If this works for you, I'll request this for stable.
> 
> -corey
> 
>   drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>   1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> index 39c55f4..f8e28ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> @@ -3425,7 +3425,7 @@ static inline void wait_for_timer_and_thread(struct smi_info *smi_info)
>   		del_timer_sync(&smi_info->si_timer);
>   }
>   
> -static int is_new_interface(struct smi_info *info)
> +static struct smi_info *find_dup_si(struct smi_info *info)
>   {
>   	struct smi_info *e;
>   
> @@ -3440,24 +3440,36 @@ static int is_new_interface(struct smi_info *info)
>   			 */
>   			if (info->slave_addr && !e->slave_addr)
>   				e->slave_addr = info->slave_addr;
> -			return 0;
> +			return e;
>   		}
>   	}
>   
> -	return 1;
> +	return NULL;
>   }
>   
>   static int add_smi(struct smi_info *new_smi)
>   {
>   	int rv = 0;
> +	struct smi_info *dup;
>   
>   	mutex_lock(&smi_infos_lock);
> -	if (!is_new_interface(new_smi)) {
> -		pr_info(PFX "%s-specified %s state machine: duplicate\n",
> -			ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->addr_source),
> -			si_to_str[new_smi->si_type]);
> -		rv = -EBUSY;
> -		goto out_err;
> +	dup = find_dup_si(new_smi);
> +	if (dup) {
> +		if (new_smi->addr_source == SI_ACPI &&
> +		    dup->addr_source == SI_SMBIOS) {
> +			/* We prefer ACPI over SMBIOS. */
> +			dev_info(dup->dev,
> +				 "Removing SMBIOS-specified %s state machine in favor of ACPI\n",
> +				 si_to_str[new_smi->si_type]);
> +			cleanup_one_si(dup);
> +		} else {
> +			dev_info(new_smi->dev,
> +				 "%s-specified %s state machine: duplicate\n",
> +				 ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->addr_source),
> +				 si_to_str[new_smi->si_type]);
> +			rv = -EBUSY;
> +			goto out_err;
> +		}
>   	}
>   
>   	pr_info(PFX "Adding %s-specified %s state machine\n",
> @@ -3866,7 +3878,8 @@ static void cleanup_one_si(struct smi_info *to_clean)
>   		poll(to_clean);
>   		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
>   	}
> -	disable_si_irq(to_clean, false);
> +	if (to_clean->handlers)
> +		disable_si_irq(to_clean, false);
>   	while (to_clean->curr_msg || (to_clean->si_state != SI_NORMAL)) {
>   		poll(to_clean);
>   		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
>