linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 223/241] ALSA: hda - Revert power

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Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:08:08 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 223/241] ALSA: hda - Revert power_save option default value

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

commit 40088dc4e1ead7df31728c73f5b51d71da18831d upstream.

With the commit 1ba8f9d30817 ("ALSA: hda: Add a power_save
blacklist"), we changed the default value of power_save option to -1
for processing the power-save blacklist.
Unfortunately, this seems breaking user-space applications that
actually read the power_save parameter value via sysfs and judge /
adjust the power-saving status.  They see the value -1 as if the
power-save is turned off, although the actual value is taken from
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT and it can be a positive.

So, overall, passing -1 there was no good idea.  Let's partially
revert it -- at least for power_save option default value is restored
again to CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT.  Meanwhile, in this patch,
we keep the blacklist behavior and make is adjustable via the new
option, pm_blacklist.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199073
Fixes: 1ba8f9d30817 ("ALSA: hda: Add a power_save blacklist")
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -180,11 +180,15 @@ static const struct kernel_param_ops par
 };
 #define param_check_xint param_check_int

-static int power_save = -1;
+static int power_save = CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT;
 module_param(power_save, xint, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(power_save, "Automatic power-saving timeout "
 		 "(in second, 0 = disable).");

+static bool pm_blacklist = true;
+module_param(pm_blacklist, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(pm_blacklist, "Enable power-management blacklist");
+
 /* reset the HD-audio controller in power save mode.
  * this may give more power-saving, but will take longer time to
  * wake up.
@@ -2153,10 +2157,9 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx

 	val = power_save;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
-	if (val == -1) {
+	if (pm_blacklist) {
 		const struct snd_pci_quirk *q;

-		val = CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT;
 		q = snd_pci_quirk_lookup(chip->pci, power_save_blacklist);
 		if (q && val) {
 			dev_info(chip->card->dev, "device %04x:%04x is on the power_save blacklist, forcing power_save to 0\n",