Re: [PATCH] ACPI / scan: Treat power resources in a special way

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Monday, January 07, 2013 10:16:59 AM Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 00:46 +0000, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > 
> > Commit 1d57433 (ACPI: Separate adding ACPI device objects from
> > probing ACPI drivers) introduced an ACPI power resources management
> 
> I am seeing a different commit id for this.
> 
> commit 805d410fb0dbd65e1a57a810858fa2491e75822d
> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Date:   Fri Dec 21 00:36:39 2012 +0100
> 
>     ACPI: Separate adding ACPI device objects from probing ACPI drivers
> 

My bad, sorry.

I rebased the branch without modifying the changelog of this patch.  It should
be fixed now, but please note that the acpi-scan branch has changed.

> > regression, because it didn't ensure that the power resources
> > driver bind to the struct acpi_device objects corresponding
> > to power resources as soon as they were created.  As a result,
> > ACPI power management routines may attempt to access power resource
> > objects before they are ready to use.
> > 
> > To fix this problem, tell the acpi_add_single_object() in
> > acpi_bus_check_add() to probe the driver for objects of type
> > ACPI_BUS_TYPE_POWER.  This fix has been verified to work on
> > HP nx6325 where the problem was first observed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> 
> The change looks good.
> 
> Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>

Thanks a lot,
Rafael


> > ---
> > 
> > The commit mentioned in the changelog is in linux-next only for now, but
> > it's likely to go upstream in this form anyway and the fix on top of the
> > whole ACPI scan series is trivial.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/acpi/scan.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Index: linux/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux.orig/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> > +++ linux/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> > @@ -1606,7 +1606,8 @@ static acpi_status acpi_bus_check_add(ac
> >  		return AE_CTRL_DEPTH;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	acpi_add_single_object(&device, handle, type, sta, false);
> > +	acpi_add_single_object(&device, handle, type, sta,
> > +			       type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_POWER);
> >  	if (!device)
> >  		return AE_CTRL_DEPTH;
> >  
> > 
> 
> 
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.