Re: [PATCH RFC v3 01/21] ACPI: Only enumerate enabled (or functional) devices
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:47:00 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:32 PM Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:49:16 +0000 > Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: James Morse <[email protected]> > > > > Today the ACPI enumeration code 'visits' all devices that are present. > > > > This is a problem for arm64, where CPUs are always present, but not > > always enabled. When a device-check occurs because the firmware-policy > > has changed and a CPU is now enabled, the following error occurs: > > | acpi ACPI0007:48: Enumeration failure > > > > This is ultimately because acpi_dev_ready_for_enumeration() returns > > true for a device that is not enabled. The ACPI Processor driver > > will not register such CPUs as they are not 'decoding their resources'. > > > > Change acpi_dev_ready_for_enumeration() to also check the enabled bit. > > ACPI allows a device to be functional instead of maintaining the > > present and enabled bit. Make this behaviour an explicit check with > > a reference to the spec, and then check the present and enabled bits. > > This is needed to avoid enumerating present && functional devices that > > are not enabled. > > > > Signed-off-by: James Morse <[email protected]> > > Tested-by: Miguel Luis <[email protected]> > > Tested-by: Vishnu Pajjuri <[email protected]> > > Tested-by: Jianyong Wu <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]> > > --- > > If this change causes problems on deployed hardware, I suggest an > > arch opt-in: ACPI_IGNORE_STA_ENABLED, that causes > > acpi_dev_ready_for_enumeration() to only check the present bit. > > My gut feeling (having made ACPI 'fixes' in the past that ran into > horribly broken firmware and had to be reverted) is reduce the blast > radius preemptively from the start. I'd love to live in a world were > that wasn't necessary but I don't trust all the generators of ACPI tables. > I'll leave it to Rafael and other ACPI experts suggest how narrow we should > make it though - arch opt in might be narrow enough. A chicken bit wouldn't help much IMO, especially in the cases when working setups get broken. I would very much prefer to limit the scope of it, say to processors only, in the first place.