linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ACPI: SBS: Fix various issues

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Date:   Fri, 7 Apr 2023 00:09:02 +0200
From:   Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     lenb@...nel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ACPI: SBS: Fix various issues

Am 30.03.23 um 19:02 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 9:26 PM Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de> wrote:
>> On my Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi, the system locks up upon
>> suspend/shutdown. After a lot of research, it turned out
>> that the sbs module was the culprit. The driver would not
>> correctly mask out the value used to select a battery using
>> the "Smart Battery Selector" (subset of the "Smart Battery Manager").
>> This accidentally caused a invalid power source to be selected,
>> which was automatically corrected by the selector. Upon
>> notifing the host about the corrected power source, some batteries
>> would be selected for re-reading, causing a endless loop.
>> This would lead to some workqueues filling up, which caused the
>> lockup upon suspend/shutdown.
>>
>> The first patch fixes an issue inside the ec driver regarding the
>> removal of query handlers discovered thru ACPI. The second patch fixes
>> a kernel oops on module removal caused by a race condition when removing
>> custom EC query handlers. The last patch finally fixes the
>> suspend/shutdown issues.
>>
>> As a side note: This was the first machine on which i installed Linux,
>> to finally fixing this took ~5 years of tinkering.
>>
>> Tested on a Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi.
>> ---
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Rework solution for the kernel oops on module removal
>> Changes in v2:
>> - make acpi_ec_add_query_handler() static to fix warning
>>
>> Armin Wolf (3):
>>    ACPI: EC: Limit explicit removal of query handlers to custom query
>>      handlers
>>    ACPI: EC: Fix oops when removing custom query handlers
>>    ACPI: SBS: Fix handling of Smart Battery Selectors
>>
>>   drivers/acpi/ec.c  | 17 ++++++++++++++---
>>   drivers/acpi/sbs.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
>>   2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
> All applied as 6.4 material with a minor comment adjustment in the first patch.
>
> Thanks!

Thank you!