Re: [REGRESSION 3.14-rc6] Samsung N150 lid does not "open" after suspend to RAM.

Stefan Biereigel
2014-03-25T16:07:51Z

Hello,

I can see the same acpi_listen events with a working kernel (patch
applied or kernels before rc5), but the lid open is not there with rc6
and rc7 (unpatched).

You can find my _WAK below. It seems not to do anything with LIDS, so I
guess this is the cause for the problem.

Method (_WAK, 1, NotSerialized)
{
Store (0x00, \_SB.PCI0.PEXE)
If (LEqual (Arg0, 0x03))
{
Store (0x01, \SPNF)
TRAP (0x46)
TRAP (0x50)
\_SB.SECS (0xB3)
P8XH (0x00, 0x03)
}

Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPC0.H_EC.ACEX, \PWRS)
If (LEqual (Arg0, 0x04))
{
\_SB.OSHT ()
If (DTSE)
{
TRAP (0x47)
}

P8XH (0x00, 0x04)
}

\_SB.SECS (0xAA)
PNOT ()
If (LEqual (OSYS, 0x07CE)) {}
}

Am 25.03.2014 14:53, schrieb Juan Manuel Cabo:
> I bet that his _WAK dsdt method isn't re-checking the lid state on resume
> (maybe I'm wrong).
>
> I retested on my system just to make sure, and the lid is correctly reported open
> always after resume from a sleep by closing the lid, using a different kernel with that same patch.
>
> My system is the Samsung Series 5 NP530U3C in which the patch works fine:
>
> Manufacturer: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
> Product Name: 530U3C/530U4C
>
> "sudo acpi_listen" shows the following on resume:
>
> video GFX0 00000080 00000000
> button/lid LID0 00000080 00000001
> button/lid LID0 00000080 00000002
>
> "cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state" shows its open always on resume. I suspended
> several times, and on each time it was open.
>
> I bet that that system's _WAK method doesn't recheck the lid, I might be wrong.
> *Stefan*: Can you extract that method and send it? Something like this:
>
> sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > /tmp/dsdt.bin
> cd /tmp/dsdt.bin
> iasl -d dsdt.bin
> # AND EDIT the resulting dsdt.dsl and search for and send us the _WAK method
>
> Also, on my system, the DSDT Q event for lid state change reads it from the EC to the LIDS var,
> instead of just toggling the "LIDS" variable (Lid Status). My own dsdt is downloadable from my
> blog, at http://zenstep.com.ar/files/DSDT_SamsungSeries5-NP530U3c-AB1_WithBios_P14AAJ.dsl
>
> Cheers!
> --
> Juan Manuel Cabo
>
>
> On 03/25/2014 10:23 AM, Kieran Clancy wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Lan Tianyu <lantianyu1986@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2014-03-24 19:19 GMT+08:00 Stefan Biereigel <security@biereigel-wb.de>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> thank you for the suggestion. The patch resolves the issue on my N150
>>>> when applied to a clean 3.14-rc7. Anyways I'm wondering if similar
>>>> problems to mine now exist on the Samsung Series 7/9 notebooks?
>>>>
>>>> Is any further action from my part required?
>>> Do you have these machines? If yes, please provide the output of
>>> dmidecode command.
>>>
>>> Cc guys of commit ad332c8a.
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> That's a surprising side-effect, although I guess I shouldn't be
>> surprised by Samsung ACPI weirdness anymore.
>>
>> If we can, I'd like to get to the bottom of this rather than just turn
>> off this fix (which we know works for series 5, 7 and 9 without
>> problems).
>>
>>>>> 2014-03-24 15:50 GMT+08:00 Stefan Biereigel <security@biereigel-wb.de>:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> starting with 3.14-rc6, the lid on my Samsung N150 behaves weird: My
>>>>>> system is set up, so that it should suspend to RAM as soon as the lid is
>>>>>> closed. Beginning with 3.14-rc6, the lid goes from "open" to "closed"
>>>>>> correctly the first time (and the system suspends), but after resuming
>>>>>> from standby (by opening the lid), the lid does not change to "open" again.
>>>>>> Of course, closing the lid again does not induce suspend to RAM then.
>>>>>> Opening the lid now (while not sleeping), makes ACPI notify the opening,
>>>>>> so I guess ACPI "misses" or discards the lid open event from the EC when
>>>>>> coming from sleep.
>>>>>> Now, closing the lid again does induce suspend to RAM. This behaviour is
>>>>>> reproducible: every other time, suspending works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This behaviour seems to be introduced by commit ad332c8a: ACPI / EC:
>>>>>> Clear stale EC events on Samsung systems.
>>>>>> Which was introduced after 3.14-rc5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When opening the lid to resume from standby, i see in dmesg:
>>>>>> Mar 23 22:12:04 little1 kernel: [ 7630.932074] ACPI : EC: 1 stale EC
>>>>>> events cleared
>>>>>> (which comes from drivers/acpi/ec.c)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Seems to me, that the "open" event is cleared from the EC, but also
>>>>>> discarded instead of passed on. Shouldn't the correct behaviour be to
>>>>>> report all the pending events, read from the EC, as ACPI events? Can you
>>>>>> point me in a direction for fixing the issue cleanly, then I will try to
>>>>>> find a solution and prepare a patch for this issue.
>> Stefan, thank you for reporting this issue.
>>
>> Our rationale for discarding the events was that events queued during
>> sleep are probably no longer relevant. There could also be other
>> unwanted side-effects of blindly executing all of the old
>> instructions. But in your case, this assumption might be wrong.
>>
>> What command are you using to check if the lid is "open" or "closed"?
>> Is it because the screen is not waking up, or some other effect, or
>> just because it won't suspend again when it's re-closed?
>>
>> Do other events like AC plug/unplug affect any of this if you do them
>> during this bad state?
>>
>> I'd like to see exactly which EC command byte is being thrown away
>> here. If you do something like this (with dynamic debug enabled)
>>
>> echo -n 'file ec.c +p' | sudo tee /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
>>
>> You should get massively verbose EC stuff filling your dmesg, but I am
>> just interested in the EC read/write bytes just before and around the
>> "1 stale EC events cleared" message. Grab this out of dmesg before it
>> fills with other stuff.
>>
>> This will tell us what command we are being asked to run. If you can,
>> please do it a few times to see if it's the same command each time or
>> something different.
>>
>> You can turn the debug output off again with:
>>
>> echo -n 'file ec.c -p' | sudo tee /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
>>
>> I might also need a copy of your DSDT, if you can send me that
>> separately in another email (not to the list):
>>
>> cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > .DSDT.aml
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kieran.
>>
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