Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or other GPEs) on Asus EeePC

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Thanks for the patch, ACK.

This one fixes a potentially bad problem, since we could ignore more than
just hot key EC events by accident.  Maybe it should go to -stable?

> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> It looks like this EC clears the SMI_EVT bit after every query, even if there
>> are more events pending.  The workaround is to repeatedly query the EC until
>> it reports that no events remain.
>>
>> This fixes a regression in 2.6.26 (from 2.6.25.3).  Initially reported as
>> "Asus Eee PC hotkeys stop working if pressed quickly" in bugzilla
>> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11089>.
>>
>> The regression was caused by a recently added check for interrupt storms.
>> The Eee PC triggers this check and switches to polling.  When multiple events
>> arrive between polling intervals, only one is fetched from the EC.  This causes
>> erroneous behaviour; ultimately events stop being delivered altogether when the
>> EC buffer overflows.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
>>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
>> index 5622aee..2b4c5a2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
>> @@ -459,14 +459,10 @@ void acpi_ec_remove_query_handler(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 query_bit)
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_ec_remove_query_handler);
>>  -static void acpi_ec_gpe_query(void *ec_cxt)
>> +static void acpi_ec_gpe_run_handler(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 value)
>>  {
>> -	struct acpi_ec *ec = ec_cxt;
>> -	u8 value = 0;
>>  	struct acpi_ec_query_handler *handler, copy;
>>  -	if (!ec || acpi_ec_query(ec, &value))
>> -		return;
>>  	mutex_lock(&ec->lock);
>>  	list_for_each_entry(handler, &ec->list, node) {
>>  		if (value == handler->query_bit) {
>> @@ -484,6 +480,18 @@ static void acpi_ec_gpe_query(void *ec_cxt)
>>  	mutex_unlock(&ec->lock);
>>  }
>>  +static void acpi_ec_gpe_query(void *ec_cxt)
>> +{
>> +	struct acpi_ec *ec = ec_cxt;
>> +	u8 value = 0;
>> +
>> +	if (!ec)
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	while (!acpi_ec_query(ec, &value))
>> +		acpi_ec_gpe_run_handler(ec, value);
>> +}
>> +
>>  static u32 acpi_ec_gpe_handler(void *data)
>>  {
>>  	acpi_status status = AE_OK;

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