[PATCH v4 4/6] ACPI / EC: Fix several GPE handling issues by deploying ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode.

Lv Zheng
2015-02-05T08:27:29Z

This patch switches EC driver into ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode where
the GPE lock is not held for acpi_ec_gpe_handler() and the ACPICA internal
GPE enabling/disabling/clearing operations are bypassed so that further
improvements are possible with the GPE APIs.

There are 2 strong reasons for deploying raw GPE handler mode in the EC
driver:
1. Some hardware logics can control their interrupts via their own
registers, so their interrupts can be disabled/enabled/acknowledged
without using the super IRQ controller provided functions. While there
is no mean (EC commands) for the EC driver to achieve this.
2. During suspending, the EC driver is still working for a while to
complete the platform firmware provided functionailities using ec_poll()
after all GPEs are disabled (see acpi_ec_block_transactions()), which
means the EC driver will drive the EC GPE out of the GPE core's control.

Without deploying the raw GPE handler mode, we can see many races between
the EC driver and the GPE core due to the above restrictions:
1. There is a race condition due to ACPICA internal GPE
disabling/clearing/enabling logics in acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch():
Orignally EC GPE is disabled (EN=0), cleared (STS=0) before invoking a
GPE handler and re-enabled (EN=1) after invoking a GPE handler in
acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch(). When re-enabling appears, GPE may be flagged
(STS=1).
=================================================================
(event pending A)
=================================================================
acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch() ec_poll()
EN=0
STS=0
acpi_ec_gpe_handler()
*****************************************************************
(event handling A)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
EC_SC read
=================================================================
(event pending B)
=================================================================
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
*****************************************************************
(event handling B)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
EC_SC read
=================================================================
(event pending C)
=================================================================
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
EN=1
This race condition is the root cause of different issues on different
silicon variations.
A. Silicon variation A:
On some platforms, GPE will be triggered due to "writing 1 to EN when
STS=1". This is because both EN and STS lines are wired to the GPE
trigger line.
1. Issue 1:
We can see no-op acpi_ec_gpe_handler() invoked on such platforms.
This is because:
a. event pending B: An event can arrive after ACPICA's GPE
clearing performed in acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch(), this event may
fail to be detected by EC_SC read that is performed before its
arrival;
b. event handling B: The event can be handled in ec_poll() because
EC lock is released after acpi_ec_gpe_handler() invocation;
c. There is no code in ec_poll() to clear STS but the GPE can
still be triggered by the EN=1 write performed in
acpi_ev_finish_gpe(), this leads to a no-op EC GPE handler
invocation;
d. As no-op GPE handler invocations are counted by the EC driver
to trigger the command storming conditions, the wrong no-op
GPE handler invocations thus can easily trigger wrong command
storming conditions.
Note 1:
If we removed GPE disabling/enabling code from
acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch(), we could still see no-op GPE handlers
triggered by the event arriving after the GPE clearing and before
the GPE handling on both silicon variation A and B. This can only
occur if the CPU is very slow (timing slice between STS=0 write
and EC_SC read should be short enough before hardware sets another
GPE indication). Thus this is very rare and is not what we need to
fix.
B. Silicon variation B:
On other platforms, GPE may not be triggered due to "writing 1 to EN
when STS=1". This is because only STS line is wired to the GPE
trigger line.
2. Issue 2:
We can see GPE loss on such platforms. This is because:
a. event pending B vs. event handling A: An event can arrive after
ACPICA's GPE handling performed in acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch(), or
event pending C vs. event handling B: An event can arrive after
Linux's GPE handling performed in ec_poll(),
these events may fail to be detected by EC_SC read that is
performed before their arrival;
b. The GPE cannot be triggered by EN=1 write performed in
acpi_ev_finish_gpe();
c. If no polling mechanism is implemented in the driver for the
pending event (for example, SCI_EVT), this event is lost due to
no GPE being triggered.
Note 2:
On most platforms, there might be another rule that GPE may not be
triggered due to "writing 1 to STS when STS=1 and EN=1".
Then on silicon variation B, an even worse case is if the issue 2
event loss happens, further events may never trigger GPE again on
such platforms due to being blocked by the current STS=1. Unless
someone clears STS, all events have to be polled.
2. There is a race condition due to lacking in GPE status checking in EC
driver:
Originally, GPE status is checked in ACPICA core but not checked in
the GPE handler. Thus since the status checking and handling is not
locked, it can be interrupted by another handling path.
=================================================================
(event pending A)
=================================================================
acpi_ev_gpe_detect() ec_poll()
if (EN==1 && STS==1)
*****************************************************************
(event handling A)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
EC_SC read
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch()
EN=0
STS=0
acpi_ec_gpe_handler()
*****************************************************************
(event handling B)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
EC_SC read
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
3. Issue 3:
We can see no-op acpi_ec_gpe_handler() invoked on both silicon
variation A and B. This is because:
a. event pending A: An event can arrive to trigger an EC GPE and
ACPICA checks it and is about to invoke the EC GPE handler;
b. event handling A: The event can be handled in ec_poll() because
EC lock is not held after the GPE status checking;
c. event handling B: Then when the EC GPE handler is invoked, it
becomes a no-op GPE handler invocation.
d. As no-op GPE handler invocations are counted by the EC driver
to trigger the command storming conditions, the wrong no-op
GPE handler invocations thus can easily trigger wrong command
storming conditions.
Note 3:
This no-op GPE handler invocation is rare because the time between
the IRQ arrival and the acpi_ec_gpe_handler() invocation is less than
the timeout value waited in ec_poll(). So most of the no-op GPE
handler invocations are caused by the reason described in issue 1.
3. There is a race condition due to ACPICA internal GPE clearing logic in
acpi_enable_gpe():
During runtime, acpi_enable_gpe() can be invoked by the EC storming
prevention code. When it is invoked, GPE may be flagged (STS=1).
=================================================================
(event pending A)
=================================================================
acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch() acpi_ec_transaction()
EN=0
STS=0
acpi_ec_gpe_handler()
*****************************************************************
(event handling A)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
EC_SC read
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
EN=1 ?
Lock(EC)
Unlock(EC)
=================================================================
(event pending B)
=================================================================
acpi_enable_gpe()
STS=0
EN=1
4. Issue 4:
We can see GPE loss on both silicon variation A and B platforms.
This is because:
a. event pending B: An event can arrive right before ACPICA's GPE
clearing performed in acpi_enable_gpe();
b. If the GPE is cleared when GPE is disabled, then EN=1 write in
acpi_enable_gpe() cannot trigger this GPE;
c. If no polling mechanism is implemented in the driver for this
event (for example, SCI_EVT), this event is lost due to no GPE
being triggered.
Note 4:
Currently we don't have this issue, but after we switch the EC
driver into ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode, we need to take care
of handling this because the EN=1 write in acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch()
will be abandoned.

There might be more race issues for the current GPE handler usages. This is
because the EC IRQ's enabling/disabling/checking/clearing/handling
operations should be locked by a single lock that is under the EC driver's
control to achieve the serialization. Which means we need to invoke GPE
APIs with EC driver's lock held and all ACPICA internal GPE operations
related to the GPE handler should be abandoned. Invoking GPE APIs inside of
the EC driver lock and bypassing ACPICA internal GPE operations requires
the ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode where the same lock used by the APIs
are released prior than invoking the handlers. Otherwise, we can see dead
locks due to circular locking dependencies (see Reference below).

This patch then switches the EC driver into the
ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode so that it can perform correct GPE
operations using the GPE APIs:
1. Bypasses EN modifications performed in acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch() by
using acpi_install_gpe_raw_handler() and invoking all GPE APIs with EC
spin lock held. This can fix issue 1 as it makes a non frequent GPE
enabling/disabling environment.
2. Bypasses STS clearing performed in acpi_enable_gpe() by replacing
acpi_enable_gpe()/acpi_disable_gpe() with acpi_set_gpe(). This can fix
issue 4. And this can also help to fix issue 1 as it makes a no sudden
GPE clearing environment when GPE is frequently enabled/disabled.
3. Ensures STS acknowledged before handling by invoking acpi_clear_gpe()
in advance_transaction(). This can finally fix issue 1 even in a
frequent GPE enabling/disabling environment. And this can also finally
fix issue 3 when issue 2 is fixed.
Note 3:
GPE clearing is edge triggered W1C, which means we can clear it right
before handling it. Since all EC GPE indications are handled in
advance_transaction() by previous commits, we can now move GPE clearing
into it to implement the correct GPE clearing.
Note 4:
We can use acpi_set_gpe() which is not shared GPE safer instead of
acpi_enable_gpe()/acpi_disable_gpe() because EC GPE is not shared by
other hardware, which is mentioned in the ACPI specification 5.0, 12.6
Interrupt Model: "OSPM driver treats this as an edge event (the EC SCI
cannot be shared)". So we can stop using shared GPE safer APIs
acpi_enable_gpe()/acpi_disable_gpe() in the EC driver. Otherwise
cleanups need to be made in acpi_ev_enable_gpe() to bypass the GPE
clearing logic before keeping acpi_enable_gpe().
This patch also invokes advance_transaction() when GPE is re-enabled in the
task context which:
1. Ensures EN=1 can trigger GPE by checking and handling EC status register
right after EN=1 writes. This can fix issue 2.

After applying this patch, without frequent GPE enablings considered:
=================================================================
(event pending A)
=================================================================
acpi_ec_gpe_handler() ec_poll()
*****************************************************************
(event handling A)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
if STS==1
STS=0
EC_SC read
=================================================================
(event pending B)
=================================================================
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
*****************************************************************
(event handling B)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
if STS==1
STS=0
EC_SC read
=================================================================
(event pending C)
=================================================================
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
The event pending for issue 1 (event pending B) can arrive as a next GPE
due to the previous IRQ context STS=0 write. And if it is handled by
ec_poll() (event handling B), as it is also acknowledged by ec_poll(), the
event pending for issue 2 (event pending C) can properly arrive as a next
GPE after the task context STS=0 write. So no GPE will be lost and never
triggered due to GPE clearing performed in the wrong position. And since
all GPE handling is performed after a locked GPE status checking, we can
hardly see no-op GPE handler invocations due to issue 1 and 3. We may still
see no-op GPE handler invocations due to "Note 1", but as it is inevitable,
it needn't be fixed.

After applying this patch, with frequent GPE enablings considered:
=================================================================
(event pending A)
=================================================================
acpi_ec_gpe_handler() acpi_ec_transaction()
*****************************************************************
(event handling A)
Lock(EC)
advance_transaction()
if STS==1
STS=0
EC_SC read
=================================================================
(event pending B)
=================================================================
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
*****************************************************************
(event handling B)
Lock(EC)
EN=1
if STS==1
advance_transaction()
if STS==1
STS=0
EC_SC read
=================================================================
(event pending C)
=================================================================
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
*****************************************************************
The event pending for issue 2 can be manually handled by
advance_transaction(). And after the STS=0 write performed in the manual
triggered advance_transaction(), GPE can always arrive. So no GPE will be
lost due to frequent GPE disabling/enabling performed in the driver like
issue 4.
Note 5:
It's ideally when EN=1 write occurred, an IRQ thread should be woken up to
handle the GPE when the GPE was raised. But this requires the IRQ thread to
contain the poller code for all EC GPE indications, while currently some of
the indications are handled in the user tasks. It then is very hard for the
code to determine whether a user task should be invoked or the poller work
item should be scheduled. So we have to invoke advance_transaction()
directly now and it leaves us such a restriction for the GPE re-enabling:
it must be performed in the task context to avoid starving the GPEs.

As a conclusion: we can see the EC GPE is always handled in serial after
deploying the raw GPE handler mode:
Lock(EC)
if (STS==1)
STS=0
EC_SC read
EC_SC handled
Unlock(EC)
The EC driver specific lock is responsible to make the EC GPE handling
processes serialized so that EC can handle its GPE from both IRQ and task
contexts and the next IRQ can be ensured to arrive after this process.

Note 6:
We have many EC_FLAGS_MSI qurik users in the current driver. They all seem
to be suffering from unexpected GPE triggering source lost. And they are
false root caused to a timing issue. Since EC communication protocol has
already flow control defined, timing shouldn't be the root cause, while
this fix might be fixing the root cause of the old bugs.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/974
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/18/316
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg54340.html
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
---
drivers/acpi/ec.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
index c385606..2540870 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ struct transaction {
};

static int acpi_ec_query(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 *data);
+static void advance_transaction(struct acpi_ec *ec);

struct acpi_ec *boot_ec, *first_ec;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(first_ec);
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ static int EC_FLAGS_CLEAR_ON_RESUME; /* Needs acpi_ec_clear() on boot/resume */
static int EC_FLAGS_QUERY_HANDSHAKE; /* Needs QR_EC issued when SCI_EVT set */

/* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Transaction Management
+ * EC Registers
* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

static inline u8 acpi_ec_read_status(struct acpi_ec *ec)
@@ -191,6 +192,64 @@ static const char *acpi_ec_cmd_string(u8 cmd)
#define acpi_ec_cmd_string(cmd) "UNDEF"
#endif

+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * GPE Registers
+ * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+static inline bool acpi_ec_is_gpe_raised(struct acpi_ec *ec)
+{
+ acpi_event_status gpe_status = 0;
+
+ (void)acpi_get_gpe_status(NULL, ec->gpe, &gpe_status);
+ return (gpe_status & ACPI_EVENT_FLAG_SET) ? true : false;
+}
+
+static inline void acpi_ec_enable_gpe(struct acpi_ec *ec, bool open)
+{
+ if (open)
+ acpi_enable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+ else
+ acpi_set_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe, ACPI_GPE_ENABLE);
+ if (acpi_ec_is_gpe_raised(ec)) {
+ /*
+ * On some platforms, EN=1 writes cannot trigger GPE. So
+ * software need to manually trigger a pseudo GPE event on
+ * EN=1 writes.
+ */
+ pr_debug("***** Polling quirk *****\n");
+ advance_transaction(ec);
+ }
+}
+
+static inline void acpi_ec_disable_gpe(struct acpi_ec *ec, bool close)
+{
+ if (close)
+ acpi_disable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+ else
+ acpi_set_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe, ACPI_GPE_DISABLE);
+}
+
+static inline void acpi_ec_clear_gpe(struct acpi_ec *ec)
+{
+ /*
+ * GPE STS is a W1C register, which means:
+ * 1. Software can clear it without worrying about clearing other
+ * GPEs' STS bits when the hardware sets them in parallel.
+ * 2. As long as software can ensure only clearing it when it is
+ * set, hardware won't set it in parallel.
+ * So software can clear GPE in any contexts.
+ * Warning: do not move the check into advance_transaction() as the
+ * EC commands will be sent without GPE raised.
+ */
+ if (!acpi_ec_is_gpe_raised(ec))
+ return;
+ acpi_clear_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+}
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Transaction Management
+ * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
static void acpi_ec_submit_query(struct acpi_ec *ec)
{
if (!test_and_set_bit(EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING, &ec->flags)) {
@@ -227,6 +286,12 @@ static void advance_transaction(struct acpi_ec *ec)

pr_debug("===== %s (%d) =====\n",
in_interrupt() ? "IRQ" : "TASK", smp_processor_id());
+ /*
+ * By always clearing STS before handling all indications, we can
+ * ensure a hardware STS 0->1 change after this clearing can always
+ * trigger a GPE interrupt.
+ */
+ acpi_ec_clear_gpe(ec);
status = acpi_ec_read_status(ec);
t = ec->curr;
if (!t)
@@ -378,7 +443,7 @@ static int acpi_ec_transaction(struct acpi_ec *ec, struct transaction *t)
/* disable GPE during transaction if storm is detected */
if (test_bit(EC_FLAGS_GPE_STORM, &ec->flags)) {
/* It has to be disabled, so that it doesn't trigger. */
- acpi_disable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+ acpi_ec_disable_gpe(ec, false);
}

status = acpi_ec_transaction_unlocked(ec, t);
@@ -386,7 +451,7 @@ static int acpi_ec_transaction(struct acpi_ec *ec, struct transaction *t)
if (test_bit(EC_FLAGS_GPE_STORM, &ec->flags)) {
msleep(1);
/* It is safe to enable the GPE outside of the transaction. */
- acpi_enable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+ acpi_ec_enable_gpe(ec, false);
} else if (t->irq_count > ec_storm_threshold) {
pr_info("GPE storm detected(%d GPEs), "
"transactions will use polling mode\n",
@@ -693,7 +758,7 @@ static u32 acpi_ec_gpe_handler(acpi_handle gpe_device,
spin_lock_irqsave(&ec->lock, flags);
advance_transaction(ec);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ec->lock, flags);
- return ACPI_INTERRUPT_HANDLED | ACPI_REENABLE_GPE;
+ return ACPI_INTERRUPT_HANDLED;
}

/* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -812,13 +877,13 @@ static int ec_install_handlers(struct acpi_ec *ec)

if (test_bit(EC_FLAGS_HANDLERS_INSTALLED, &ec->flags))
return 0;
- status = acpi_install_gpe_handler(NULL, ec->gpe,
+ status = acpi_install_gpe_raw_handler(NULL, ec->gpe,
ACPI_GPE_EDGE_TRIGGERED,
&acpi_ec_gpe_handler, ec);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
return -ENODEV;

- acpi_enable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+ acpi_ec_enable_gpe(ec, true);
status = acpi_install_address_space_handler(ec->handle,
ACPI_ADR_SPACE_EC,
&acpi_ec_space_handler,
@@ -833,7 +898,7 @@ static int ec_install_handlers(struct acpi_ec *ec)
pr_err("Fail in evaluating the _REG object"
" of EC device. Broken bios is suspected.\n");
} else {
- acpi_disable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+ acpi_ec_disable_gpe(ec, true);
acpi_remove_gpe_handler(NULL, ec->gpe,
&acpi_ec_gpe_handler);
return -ENODEV;
@@ -848,7 +913,7 @@ static void ec_remove_handlers(struct acpi_ec *ec)
{
if (!test_bit(EC_FLAGS_HANDLERS_INSTALLED, &ec->flags))
return;
- acpi_disable_gpe(NULL, ec->gpe);
+ acpi_ec_disable_gpe(ec, true);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(acpi_remove_address_space_handler(ec->handle,
ACPI_ADR_SPACE_EC, &acpi_ec_space_handler)))
pr_err("failed to remove space handler\n");
--
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