ACPI 2.0 / ECDT: Remove early namespace reference from EC
All operation region accesses are allowed by AML interpreter when AML is executed, so actually BIOSen are responsible to avoid the operation region accesses in AML before OSPM has prepared an operation region driver. This is done via _REG control method. So AML code normally sets a global named object REGC to 1 when _REG(3, 1) is evaluated. Then what is ECDT? Quoting from ACPI spec 6.0, 5.2.15 Embedded Controller Boot Resources Table (ECDT): "The presence of this table allows OSPM to provide Embedded Controller operation region space access before the namespace has been evaluated." Spec also suggests a compatible mean to indicate the early EC access availability: Device (EC) { Name (REGC, Ones) Method (_REG, 2) { If (LEqual (Arg0, 3)) { Store (Arg1, REGC) } } Method (ECAV) { If (LEqual (REGC, Ones)) { If (LGreaterEqual (_REV, 2)) { Return (One) } Else { Return (Zero) } } Else { Return (REGC) } } } In this way, it allows EC accesses to happen before EC._REG(3, 1) is invoked. But ECAV is not the only way practical BIOSen using to indicate the early EC access availibility, the known variations include: 1. Setting REGC to One in \_SB._INI when _REV >= 2. Since \_SB._INI is the first control method evaluated by OSPM during the enumeration, this allows EC accesses to happen for the entire enumeration process before the namespace EC is enumerated. 2. Initialize REGC to One by default, this even allows EC accesses to happen during the table loading. Linux is now broken around ECDT support during the long term bug fixing work because it has merged many wrong ECDT bug fixes (see details below). Linux currently uses namespace EC's settings instead of ECDT settings when ECDT is detected. This apparently will result in namespace walk and _CRS/_GPE/_REG evaluations. Such stuffs could only happen after namespace is ready, while ECDT is purposely to be used before namespace is ready. The wrong bug fixing story is: 1. Link 1: At Linux ACPI early stages, "no _Lxx/_Exx/_Qxx evaluation can happen before the namespace is ready" are not ensured by ACPICA core and Linux. This is currently ensured by deferred enabling of GPE and defered registering of EC query methods (acpi_ec_register_query_methods). 2. Link 2: Reporters reported buggy ECDTs, expecting quirks for the platform. Originally, the quirk is simple, only doing things with ECDT. Bug 9399 and 12461 are platforms (Asus L4R, Asus M6R, MSI MS-171F) reported to have wrong ECDT IO port addresses, the port addresses are reversed. Bug 11880 is a platform (Asus X50GL) reported to have 0 valued port addresses, we can see that all EC accesses are protected by ECAV on this platform, so actually no early EC accesses is required by this platform. 3. Link 3: But when the bug fixing developer was requested to provide a handy and non-quirk bug fix, he tried to use correct EC settings from namespace and broke the spec purpose. We can even see that the developer was suffered from many regrssions. One interesting one is 14086, where the actual root cause obviously should be: _REG is evaluated too early. But unfortunately, the bug is fixed in a totally wrong way. So everything goes wrong from these commits: Commit: c6cb0e87 Subject: ACPI: EC: Don't trust ECDT tables from ASUS Commit: a5032bfd Subject: ACPI: EC: Always parse EC device This patch reverts Linux behavior to simple ECDT quirk support in order to stop early _CRS/_GPE/_REG evaluations. For Bug 9399, 12461, since it is reported that the platforms require early EC accesses, this patch restores the simple ECDT quirks for them. For Bug 11880, since it is not reported that the platform requires early EC accesses and its ACPI tables contain correct ECAV, we choose an ECDT enumeration failure for this platform. Link 1: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9916 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10100 https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/25/282 Link 2: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9399 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12461 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11880 Link 3: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11884 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14081 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14086 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14446 Link 4: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112911Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Tested-by: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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