Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add "auto" to acpi_enforce_resources

Thomas Renninger
2009-01-29T10:30:41Z

On Sunday 25 January 2009 22:05:20 Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> (This is an improved version of my earlier patch, I've reworked deviced
> detection to simply check for the desired HID)
>
> The following patch adds "auto" option to "acpi_enforce_resource"; this
> value is also the new default.
> "auto" enforces strict resource checking - disallowing access by native
> drivers to IO ports and memory regions claimed by ACPI firmware - when a
> device with a known ACPI driver is found (currently only ASUS ATK0110 is
> checked), and reverts to lax checking otherwise.
>
> The patch is mainly aimed to block native hwmon drivers from touching
> monitoring chips that ACPI thinks it own.
Having this in the core ACPI code is ugly.
Either this should be more generic (instead of hardcoded "ATK0110" device,
use a list to add further specific thermal ACPI drivers). Hmm, maybe it's
only ASUS violating the spec? Thinkpads seem to read out extra thermal
data from EC and shouldn't interfere with hwmon drivers. hp-wmi seem to
read hdd temp through wmi, don't know whether this could interfere with
hwmon, I expect not? Are there other known, model specific ACPI devices,
accessing thermal IOs directly which could interfere with hwmon, then it
might be worth it.

If not, on these ASUS there should be a specific hwmon driver interfering
with the ATK0110 device?
Can't you just add:

interfering_hwmon_driver.c:

#ifdef ACPI
acpi_search_for_ATK0110(){
/* put code from below in here */
}
#endif

interfering_hwmon_driver_init/add(){
...
#ifdef ACPI
if (!acpi_disabled)
if (acpi_search_for_ATK0110()) {
printk ("Do not use this hwmon driver, use asus_acpi to read the "
"extra sensor.\n");
return -1;
else
err = acpi_check_resource_conflict(&res);
}
#endif

Thomas

> Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
> ---
> New revision, now it simply checks the HID.
>
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 19 ++++++++++++++++
> drivers/acpi/osl.c | 41
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 3
> deletions(-)
>
> Index: b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2009-01-17 21:22:49.218882286
> +0100 +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2009-01-21
> 23:25:41.262478018 +0100 @@ -258,6 +258,25 @@
> to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
> and always returns good values.
>
> + acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
> + { strict, auto, lax, no }
> + Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
> + and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and System Memory
> + only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
> + used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
> + can interfere with legacy drivers.
> + strict: access to resources claimed by ACPI is denied;
> + legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
> + will fail to load.
> + auto (default): try and detect ACPI devices with known
> + ACPI drivers; escalates the setting to "strict" if such
> + a device is found, otherwise behaves like "lax".
> + lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
> + legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
> + will load and a warning message is logged.
> + no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
> + no further checks are performed.
> +
> agp= [AGP]
> { off | try_unsupported }
> off: disable AGP support
> Index: b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c 2009-01-17 21:22:49.190882303 +0100
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c 2009-01-25 22:04:30.759209000 +0100
> @@ -1063,7 +1063,10 @@
> * in arbitrary AML code and can interfere with legacy drivers.
> * acpi_enforce_resources= can be set to:
> *
> - * - strict (2)
> + * - auto (2)
> + * -> detect possible conflicts with ACPI drivers and switch to
> + * strict if needed, otherwise act like lax
> + * - strict (3)
> * -> further driver trying to access the resources will not load
> * - lax (default) (1)
> * -> further driver trying to access the resources will load, but you
> @@ -1073,11 +1076,12 @@
> * -> ACPI Operation Region resources will not be registered
> *
> */
> -#define ENFORCE_RESOURCES_STRICT 2
> +#define ENFORCE_RESOURCES_STRICT 3
> +#define ENFORCE_RESOURCES_AUTO 2
> #define ENFORCE_RESOURCES_LAX 1
> #define ENFORCE_RESOURCES_NO 0
>
> -static unsigned int acpi_enforce_resources = ENFORCE_RESOURCES_LAX;
> +static unsigned int acpi_enforce_resources = ENFORCE_RESOURCES_AUTO;
>
> static int __init acpi_enforce_resources_setup(char *str)
> {
> @@ -1086,6 +1090,8 @@
>
> if (!strcmp("strict", str))
> acpi_enforce_resources = ENFORCE_RESOURCES_STRICT;
> + else if (!strcmp("auto", str))
> + acpi_enforce_resources = ENFORCE_RESOURCES_AUTO;
> else if (!strcmp("lax", str))
> acpi_enforce_resources = ENFORCE_RESOURCES_LAX;
> else if (!strcmp("no", str))
> @@ -1096,6 +1102,35 @@
>
> __setup("acpi_enforce_resources=", acpi_enforce_resources_setup);
>
> +static acpi_status acpi_detect_asus_atk_cb(acpi_handle obj_handle,
> + u32 nesting_level, void *context, void **return_value)
> +{
> + *((bool *)return_value) = true;
> + return AE_CTRL_TERMINATE;
> +}
> +
> +static int __init acpi_detect_asus_atk(void)
> +{
> + acpi_status ret;
> + bool found = false;
> +
> + if (acpi_enforce_resources != ENFORCE_RESOURCES_AUTO)
> + return 0;
> +
> + ret = acpi_get_devices("ATK0110", acpi_detect_asus_atk_cb,
> + NULL, (void **)&found);
> +
> + if (ret == AE_OK && found) {
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "Asus ATK0110 interface detected: "
> + "enforcing resource checking.\n");
> + acpi_enforce_resources = ENFORCE_RESOURCES_STRICT;
> + } else
> + acpi_enforce_resources = ENFORCE_RESOURCES_LAX;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +fs_initcall(acpi_detect_asus_atk);
> +
> /* Check for resource conflicts between ACPI OperationRegions and native
> * drivers */
> int acpi_check_resource_conflict(struct resource *res)
>
>
> Luca