From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
To: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Cc: linux acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI: EC: Fix logspam in "GPE storm avoidance" code
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:25:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4907590E.4070104@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49071C33.7030308@tuffmail.co.uk>
Alan Jenkins wrote:
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11841>
> "plenty of line "ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received,
> switching to interrupt mode" in dmesg"
Probably, it is better to make pr_debug().
>
> GPE storm avoidance involves disabling the EC GPE during transactions.
> Unfortunately we forget to re-enable EC_FLAGS_GPE_MODE afterwards.
"We" don't forget it, "we" just use same mechanism as driver init. Thus if
for some reason interrupts do not start to arrive after we issue enable_gpe(),
we will not fall to timeouts.
>
> This happens to work because we re-enable it anyway when we detect
> the first confirmation interrupt of the next transaction. However,
> this causes lots of bogus "switching to interrupt mode" messages.
they are not "bogus", it is really switching the mode...
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> index 7f0d81c..ba47c7c 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> @@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ static int acpi_ec_transaction_unlocked(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 command,
> /* check if we received SCI during transaction */
> ec_check_sci(ec, acpi_ec_read_status(ec));
> /* it is safe to enable GPE outside of transaction */
> + set_bit(EC_FLAGS_GPE_MODE, &ec->flags);
> acpi_enable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe, ACPI_NOT_ISR);
> } else if (test_bit(EC_FLAGS_GPE_MODE, &ec->flags) &&
> t.irq_count > ACPI_EC_STORM_THRESHOLD) {
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-28 14:05 ACPI: EC: Fix logspam in "GPE storm avoidance" code Alan Jenkins
2008-10-28 18:25 ` Alexey Starikovskiy [this message]
2008-10-28 20:18 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-10-29 0:12 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-29 9:51 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-10-29 15:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-29 16:35 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-10-29 19:00 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-11-01 11:03 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-10-30 1:47 ` Zhao Yakui
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