The recent EC cleanup left a printk enabled on handler evaluation
resulting in a bunch of messages on normal operation, like so:
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q60
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (68 commits)
ACPI: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
ACPI: Add support for acpi_load_table/acpi_unload_table_id
fbdev: update after backlight argument change
ACPI: video: Add dev argument for backlight_device_register
ACPI: Implement acpi_video_get_next_level()
ACPI: Kconfig - depend on PM rather than selecting it
ACPI: fix NULL check in drivers/acpi/osl.c
ACPI: make drivers/acpi/ec.c:ec_ecdt static
ACPI: prevent processor module from loading on failures
ACPI: fix single linked list manipulation
ACPI: ibm_acpi: allow clean removal
ACPI: fix git automerge failure
ACPI: ibm_acpi: respond to workqueue update
ACPI: dock: add uevent to indicate change in device status
ACPI: ec: Lindent once again
ACPI: ec: Change #define to enums there possible.
ACPI: ec: Style changes.
ACPI: ec: Acquire Global Lock under EC mutex.
ACPI: ec: Drop udelay() from poll mode. Loop by reading status field instead.
ACPI: ec: Rename gpe_bit to gpe
...
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano reported frequent scheduling latencies and audio
xruns starting at the 2.6.18-rt kernel, and those problems persisted all
until current -rt kernels. The latencies were serious and unjustified by
system load, often in the milliseconds range.
After a patient and heroic multi-month effort of Fernando, where he
tested dozens of kernels, tried various configs, boot options,
test-patches of mine and provided latency traces of those incidents, the
following 'smoking gun' trace was captured by him:
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| /
||||| delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
\ / ||||| \ | /
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup (try_to_wake_up)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup <<...>-5856> (37 0)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup (c01262ba 0 0)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : resched_task (try_to_wake_up)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __spin_unlock_irqrestore (try_to_wake_up)
...
<idle>-0 1...1 11us!: default_idle (cpu_idle)
...
<idle>-0 0Dn.1 602us : smp_apic_timer_interrupt (c0103baf 1 0)
...
<...>-5856 0D..2 618us : __switch_to (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0D..2 618us : __schedule <<idle>-0> (20 162)
<...>-5856 0D..2 619us : __spin_unlock_irq (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0...1 619us : trace_stop_sched_switched (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0D..1 619us : trace_stop_sched_switched <<...>-5856> (37 0)
what is visible in this trace is that CPU#1 ran try_to_wake_up() for
PID:5856, it placed PID:5856 on CPU#0's runqueue and ran resched_task()
for CPU#0. But it decided to not send an IPI that no CPU - due to
TS_POLLING. But CPU#0 never woke up after its NEED_RESCHED bit was set,
and only rescheduled to PID:5856 upon the next lapic timer IRQ. The
result was a 600+ usecs latency and a missed wakeup!
the bug turned out to be an idle-wakeup bug introduced into the mainline
kernel this summer via an optimization in the x86_64 tree:
commit 495ab9c045
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jun 26 13:59:11 2006 +0200
[PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status
During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of
memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations
to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually
no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it
to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status.
the problem is this type of change:
if (!hlt_counter && boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok) {
- clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
while (!need_resched()) {
local_irq_disable();
this changes clear_thread_flag() to an explicit clearing of TS_POLLING.
clear_thread_flag() is defined as:
clear_bit(flag, &ti->flags);
and clear_bit() is a LOCK-ed atomic instruction on all x86 platforms:
static inline void clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long * addr)
{
__asm__ __volatile__( LOCK_PREFIX
"btrl %1,%0"
hence smp_mb__after_clear_bit() is defined as a simple compile barrier:
#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit() barrier()
but the explicit TS_POLLING clearing introduced by the patch:
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
is not an atomic op! So the clearing of the TS_POLLING bit is freely
reorderable with the reading of the NEED_RESCHED bit - and both now
reside in different memory addresses.
CPU idle wakeup very much depends on ordered memory ops, the clearing of
the TS_POLLING flag must always be done before we test need_resched()
and hit the idle instruction(s). [Symmetrically, the wakeup code needs
to set NEED_RESCHED before it tests the TS_POLLING flag, so memory
ordering is paramount.]
Fernando's dual-core Athlon64 system has a sufficiently advanced memory
ordering model so that it triggered this scenario very often.
( And it also turned out that the reason why these latencies never
triggered on my testsystems is that i routinely use idle=poll, which
was the only idle variant not affected by this bug. )
The fix is to change the smp_mb__after_clear_bit() to an smp_mb(), to
act as an absolute barrier between the TS_POLLING write and the
NEED_RESCHED read. This affects almost all idling methods (default,
ACPI, APM), on all 3 x86 architectures: i386, x86_64, ia64.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7695
Originally we converted bind/unbind to use a new pci bridge driver.
The driver will add/remove _PRT, so we can eventually remove
.bind/.unbind methods.
But we found that some of the _ADR-Based devices don't have _PRT,
i.e. they are not managed by the new ACPI PCI bridge driver.
So that .bind method is not called for some _ADR-Based devices,
which leads to a failure.
Now we make ACPI PCI Root Bridge Driver scan and binds all _ADR-Based devices
once the driver is loaded, in the .add method of ACPI PCI Root Bridge driver.
Extra code path for calling .bind/.unbind when _ADR-Based devices
are hot added/removed is also added.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Previously we used the device name in the DSDT, but would
crash upon encountering a duplicate. Also, exposing the
DSDT device name to the user in a patch isn't a good idea,
because it is arbitrary.
After some discussion, we finally decided to use
"PNPID:instance_no" as the bus_id of ACPI devices.
Two attributes for each device are added at the same time,
the full pathname in ACPI namespace and hardware_id if it has.
NOTE: acpi_bus_id_list is used to keep the information of PNPID
and instance number of the given PNPID. Loop the
acpi_bus_id_list to find the instance_no of the same PNPID
when register a device. If failed, i.e. we don't have a
node with this PNPID, allocate one and link it to this list.
NOTE: Now I don't take the memory free work in charge.
If necessary, I can add a reference count in
struct acpi_device_bus_id, and check the reference and
when unregister a device, i.e. memory is freed when
the reference count of a given PNPID is 0.
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add a prototype for driver_init() in include/linux/device.h.
Also remove a static function of the same name in drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c to
ibm_acpi_driver_init() to fix the namespace collision.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make acpi_load_table() available for use by removing it from the #ifdef
ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE.
Also add a new routine used to unload an ACPI table of a given type and "id" -
acpi_unload_table_id(). The implementation of this new routine was almost a
direct copy of existing routine acpi_unload_table() - only difference being
that it only removes a specific table id instead of ALL tables of a given
type. The SN hotplug driver (sgi_hotplug.c) now uses both of these interfaces
to dynamically load and unload SSDT ACPI tables.
Also, a few other ACPI routines now used by the SN hotplug driver are exported
(since the driver can be a loadable module):
acpi_ns_map_handle_to_node
acpi_ns_convert_entry_to_handle
acpi_ns_get_next_node
Signed-off-by: Aaron Young <ayoung@sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This patch set adds generic abstract layer support for acpi video driver to
have generic user interface to control backlight and output switch control by
leveraging the existing backlight sysfs class driver, and by adding a new
video output sysfs class driver.
This patch:
Add dev argument for backlight_device_register to link the class device to
real device object. The platform specific driver should find a way to get the
real device object for their video device.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix msi-laptop.c]
Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <Luming.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
acpi_video_get_next_level was supposed to implement an algorithm to select
a new brightness level based on the old brightness level of an ACPI video
device, but it simply says "/* Fix me */" and returns the current
brightness.
This patch implements acpi_video_get_next_level properly. It had to change
a few constants at the top of the file because they were (apparently)
wrong, but it appears to work on my Dell Inspiron e1405 (with BIOS A05
only--BIOS A04 doesn't seem to send ACPI video hotkey events).
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle <linux-kernel@ttuttle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Make ACPI depend on PM rather than selecting it.
Otherwise it's a nightmare working out why CONFIG_PM keeps getting set.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fix single linked list manipulation for sub_driver. If the remving entry
is not on the head of the sub_driver list, it goes into infinate loop.
Though that infinite loop doesn't happen. Because the only user of
acpi_pci_register_dirver() is acpiphp.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
