From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Lv Zheng <zetalog@gmail.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/30] ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE flooding
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:24:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1940728.OSvgQcsBu1@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d86ecd98996bc782a1f4a0bb0c0a0ae2b958df9.1470299677.git.lv.zheng@intel.com>
On Thursday, August 04, 2016 04:43:51 PM Lv Zheng wrote:
> Sometimes, the users may require a quirk to be provided from ACPI subsystem
> core to prevent a GPE from flooding. Normally, if a GPE cannot be
> dispatched, ACPICA core automatically prevents the GPE from firing. But
> there are cases the GPE is dispatched by _Lxx/_Exx provided via AML table,
> and OSPM is lacking of the knowledge to get _Lxx/_Exx correctly executed to
> handle the GPE, thus the GPE flooding may still occur.
>
> This patch provides a quirk mechanism to stop this kind of GPE flooding.
>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071
> Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793
> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
I didn't like this patch before and I still don't like it.
Besides, I'd appreciate it if you didn't mix ACPICA release patches with
non-ACPICA ones.
Thanks,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 8:36 [PATCH 00/30] ACPICA: 20160629 Release Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:36 ` [PATCH 01/30] ACPICA: Fix deconstification warnings (-Wcast-qual) with function traces Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:42 ` [UPDATE PATCH " Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:42 ` [PATCH 02/30] ACPICA: Fix deconstification warnings (-Wcast-qual) with acpi_ns_root_initialize() Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:42 ` [PATCH 03/30] ACPICA: Interpreter: Remove temporary code for External() opcode Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:42 ` [PATCH 04/30] ACPICA: Utilities: Introduce facility to allow Linux to set correct logging levels Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:42 ` [PATCH 05/30] ACPICA: Debugger: Extend some max line lengths Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 06/30] ACPICA: Disassembler: Add option to emit embedded External operators/opcodes Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 07/30] ACPICA: Simplify configuration for "Max Loops" system parameter Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 08/30] ACPICA: Divergence: Port declarators back to ACPICA Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 09/30] ACPICA: iASL/Disassembler: Add a check for missing filename Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 10/30] ACPICA: Use os_allocate_zeroed Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 11/30] ACPICA: Events: Introduce acpi_mask_gpe() to implement GPE masking mechanism Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 12/30] ACPI / sysfs: Update /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpexx using new " Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 13/30] ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE flooding Lv Zheng
2016-08-08 20:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2016-08-11 3:30 ` Zheng, Lv
2016-08-04 8:43 ` [PATCH 14/30] ACPICA: FADT support cleanup Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 15/30] ACPICA: Debugger: Fix wrong inclusions in dbfileio.c Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 16/30] ACPICA: OSL: Add correct acpi_gbl_debug_timeout export to allow acpiexec to link Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 17/30] ACPICA: acpidump: Fix a duplicate variable definition Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 18/30] ACPICA: Applications: Enable USE_NATIVE_ALLOCATE_ZEROED environment for all applications Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 19/30] ACPICA: Clib: Fix build issues when ACPI_USE_STANDARD_HEADERS is not defined by converting size_t to acpi_size Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 20/30] ACPICA: Clib: Cleanup va_arg related code Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 21/30] ACPICA: Clib: Fix wrong mini C library usage Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 22/30] ACPICA: Clib/EFI: Fix wrong order of standard integer types/IO handles Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:44 ` [PATCH 23/30] ACPICA: MSVC9: Fix <sys/stat.h> inclusion order issue Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [PATCH 24/30] ACPICA: Clib: Add -nostdinc support for EFI layer Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [PATCH 26/30] ACPICA: Applications: Fix a potential issue that help messages may be dumped to acpi_gbl_debug_file Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [PATCH 27/30] ACPICA: EFI: Port acpidump to EDK2 environment Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [PATCH 28/30] ACPICA: OSL: Cleanup the inclusion order of the compiler-specific headers Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [PATCH 29/30] ACPICA: OSL: Fix a regression that old GCC requires a workaround for strchr() Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [PATCH 30/30] ACPICA: Update version to 20160629 Lv Zheng
2016-08-04 16:12 ` [PATCH 00/30] ACPICA: 20160629 Release Al Stone
2016-08-05 0:42 ` Zheng, Lv
2016-08-05 14:43 ` Al Stone
2016-08-05 22:00 ` Zheng, Lv
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