Re: acpi-test tree on eeepc: EC error message on second resume

[Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 of October 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>   
>> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>>     
>>> I think I found the problem.  The "input buffer empty" wait depends on
>>> "interrupt mode" to work properly, and we don't immediately enable the
>>> interrupt on resume.  The wait should have a polling fallback anyway, to
>>> be consistent with the other transaction waits.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>       
>> Yep, I think something like attached patch may help:
>>     
>
> [Can you please append patches instead of or apart from attaching them?
> That would make it easier to comment them.]
>
>   
Ok.
> if (!wait_event_timeout(ec->wait, ec_check_ibf0(ec),
> -                               msecs_to_jiffies(ACPI_EC_DELAY))) {
> +                               msecs_to_jiffies(ACPI_EC_DELAY)) &&
> +           !ec_check_ibf0(ec)) {
>
> Shouldn't this go under the spinlock?  Surely it can race with the GPE handler.
>
>   
No, we discussed this before -- we are outside of the transaction, thus 
no GPE
activity could interfere with ec_check_ibf0.

Regards,
Alex.