1. 14 Dec, 2015 2 commits
    • Lv Zheng's avatar
      ACPICA: Debugger: Fix runtime stub issues of ACPI_DEBUGGER_EXEC using different stub mechanism · 8a2a2501
      Lv Zheng authored
      ACPICA commit 11522d6b894054fc4d62dd4f9863ec151296b386
      
      The ACPI_DEBUGGER_EXEC is a problem now when the debugger code is compiled
      but runtime disabled. They actually will get executed in this situation.
      Although such executions are harmless if we can correctly make
      acpi_db_single_step() a runtime stub, users may still do not want to see the
      debugger print messages logged into OSPMs' kernel logs when a debugger
      driver is not loaded to enable the debugger during runtime.
      
      This patch fixes this issue by introducing new stub mechanism instead of
      ACPI_DEBUGGER_EXEC. Lv Zheng.
      
      Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/11522d6b
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      8a2a2501
    • Lv Zheng's avatar
      ACPICA: Debugger: Convert some mechanisms to OSPM specific · f8d31489
      Lv Zheng authored
      
      The following mechanisms are OSPM specific:
      1. Redirect output destination to console: no file redirection will be
         needed by an in-kernel debugger, there is even no file can be accessed
         when the debugger is running in the kernel mode.
      2. Output command prompts: programs other than acpiexec can have different
         prompt characters and the prompt characters may be implemented as a
         special character sequence to form a char device IO protocol.
      3. Command ready/complete handshake: OSPM debugger may wait more conditions
         to implement OSPM specific semantics (for example, FIFO full/empty
         conditions for O_NONBLOCK or IO open/close conditions).
      Leaving such OSPM specific stuffs in the ACPICA debugger core blocks
      Linux debugger IO driver implementation.
      
      Several new OSL APIs are provided by this patch:
      1. acpi_os_initialize_command_signals: initialize command handshake mechanism
         or any other OSPM specific stuffs.
      2. acpi_os_terminate_command_signals: reversal of
         acpi_os_initialize_command_signals.
      3. acpi_os_wait_command_ready: putting debugger task into wait state when a
         command is not ready. OSPMs can terminate command loop by returning
         AE_CTRL_TERMINATE from this API. Normally, wait_event() or
         wait_for_multiple_object() may be used to implement this API.
      4. acpi_os_notify_command_complete: putting user task into running state when a
         command has been completed. OSPMs can terminate command loop by
         returning AE_CTRL_TERMINATE from this API. Normally, wake_up() or
         set_event() may be used to implement this API.
      This patch also converts current command signaling implementation into a
      generic debugger layer (osgendbg.c) to be used by the existing OSPMs or
      acpiexec, in return, Linux can have chance to implement its own command
      handshake mechanism. This patch also implements acpiexec batch mode in a
      multi-threading mode comaptible style as a demo (this can be confirmed by
      configuring acpiexec into DEBUGGER_MULTI_THREADED mode where the batch mode
      is still working). Lv Zheng.
      
      Note that the OSPM specific command handshake mechanism is required by
      Linux kernel because:
      1. Linux kernel trends to use wait queue to synchronize two threads, using
         mutexes to achieve that will cause false "dead lock" warnings.
      2. The command handshake mechanism implemented by ACPICA is implemented in
         this way because of a design issue in debugger IO streaming. Debugger IO
         outputs are simply cached using a giant buffer, this should be tuned by
         Linux in the future.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      f8d31489
  2. 22 Oct, 2015 3 commits