Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Remove ACPI SPMI probing from the SSIF (I2C) driver

[Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>]

On 03/09/2018 04:28 PM, Jiandi An wrote:
>
>
> On 03/08/2018 03:08 PM, minyard@acm.org wrote:
>> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
>>
>> The IPMI spec states:
>>
>>    The purpose of the SPMI Table is to provide a mechanism that can
>>    be used by the OSPM (an ACPI term for “OS Operating System-directed
>>    configuration and Power Management” essentially meaning an ACPI-aware
>>    OS or OS loader) very early in the boot process, e.g., before the
>>    ability to execute ACPI control methods in the OS is available.
>>
>> When we are probing IPMI in Linux, ACPI control methods are available,
>> so we shouldn't be probing using SPMI.  It could cause some confusion
>> during the probing process.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
>> Cc: Jiandi An <anjiandi@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>>
>> Jiandi, this just yanks out the SPMI code.  Your platform
>> should have an ACPI control method in it's namespace specifying the
>> IPMI interface.  If it doesn't, that's a bug in your platform and
>> really needs to be fixed.  Finding IPMI devices with SMBIOS tables
>> is kind of risky since there is no real way to know which I2C bus
>> has the IPMI device if your system has more than one I2C bus. With
>> an ACPI control method, the IPMI control method will be inside the
>> I2C bus control method, so it will be unambiguous.
>
> Thanks Corey.  I tested this patch.  It works for us through the ACPI
> control method.

Thanks.  May I add a "Tested-by" for you?

> By the way, FYI the ipmi_si driver is also having the
> SPMI probe code.
>
> [   17.370835] ipmi_si: probing via SPMI
>

Yes, I've removed that in a separate patch.

-corey

> Thanks
> - Jiandi
>
>>
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 105 
>> ------------------------------------------
>>   1 file changed, 105 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c 
>> b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
>> index 4cff4cd..206257b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
>> @@ -1994,108 +1994,6 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id 
>> ssif_acpi_match[] = {
>>       { },
>>   };
>>   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, ssif_acpi_match);
>> -
>> -/*
>> - * Once we get an ACPI failure, we don't try any more, because we go
>> - * through the tables sequentially.  Once we don't find a table, there
>> - * are no more.
>> - */
>> -static int acpi_failure;
>> -
>> -/*
>> - * Defined in the IPMI 2.0 spec.
>> - */
>> -struct SPMITable {
>> -    s8    Signature[4];
>> -    u32    Length;
>> -    u8    Revision;
>> -    u8    Checksum;
>> -    s8    OEMID[6];
>> -    s8    OEMTableID[8];
>> -    s8    OEMRevision[4];
>> -    s8    CreatorID[4];
>> -    s8    CreatorRevision[4];
>> -    u8    InterfaceType;
>> -    u8    IPMIlegacy;
>> -    s16    SpecificationRevision;
>> -
>> -    /*
>> -     * Bit 0 - SCI interrupt supported
>> -     * Bit 1 - I/O APIC/SAPIC
>> -     */
>> -    u8    InterruptType;
>> -
>> -    /*
>> -     * If bit 0 of InterruptType is set, then this is the SCI
>> -     * interrupt in the GPEx_STS register.
>> -     */
>> -    u8    GPE;
>> -
>> -    s16    Reserved;
>> -
>> -    /*
>> -     * If bit 1 of InterruptType is set, then this is the I/O
>> -     * APIC/SAPIC interrupt.
>> -     */
>> -    u32    GlobalSystemInterrupt;
>> -
>> -    /* The actual register address. */
>> -    struct acpi_generic_address addr;
>> -
>> -    u8    UID[4];
>> -
>> -    s8      spmi_id[1]; /* A '\0' terminated array starts here. */
>> -};
>> -
>> -static int try_init_spmi(struct SPMITable *spmi)
>> -{
>> -    unsigned short myaddr;
>> -
>> -    if (num_addrs >= MAX_SSIF_BMCS)
>> -        return -1;
>> -
>> -    if (spmi->IPMIlegacy != 1) {
>> -        pr_warn("IPMI: Bad SPMI legacy: %d\n", spmi->IPMIlegacy);
>> -        return -ENODEV;
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    if (spmi->InterfaceType != 4)
>> -        return -ENODEV;
>> -
>> -    if (spmi->addr.space_id != ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SMBUS) {
>> -        pr_warn(PFX "Invalid ACPI SSIF I/O Address type: %d\n",
>> -            spmi->addr.space_id);
>> -        return -EIO;
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    myaddr = spmi->addr.address & 0x7f;
>> -
>> -    return new_ssif_client(myaddr, NULL, 0, 0, SI_SPMI, NULL);
>> -}
>> -
>> -static void spmi_find_bmc(void)
>> -{
>> -    acpi_status      status;
>> -    struct SPMITable *spmi;
>> -    int              i;
>> -
>> -    if (acpi_disabled)
>> -        return;
>> -
>> -    if (acpi_failure)
>> -        return;
>> -
>> -    for (i = 0; ; i++) {
>> -        status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_SPMI, i+1,
>> -                    (struct acpi_table_header **)&spmi);
>> -        if (status != AE_OK)
>> -            return;
>> -
>> -        try_init_spmi(spmi);
>> -    }
>> -}
>> -#else
>> -static void spmi_find_bmc(void) { }
>>   #endif
>>     #ifdef CONFIG_DMI
>> @@ -2200,9 +2098,6 @@ static int init_ipmi_ssif(void)
>>           ssif_i2c_driver.driver.acpi_match_table    =
>>               ACPI_PTR(ssif_acpi_match);
>>   -    if (ssif_tryacpi)
>> -        spmi_find_bmc();
>> -
>>       if (ssif_trydmi) {
>>           rv = platform_driver_register(&ipmi_driver);
>>           if (rv)
>>
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