Re: [PATCH] ACPI / PCI / PM: Fix device PM regression related toD3hot/D3cold

From: Cristian RodrÃguez
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 01:56:32 EST


On 17/05/12 18:39, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
From: Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@xxxxxxx>

Commit 1cc0c998fdf2cb665d625fb565a0d6db5c81c639 (ACPI: Fix D3hot
v D3cold confusion) introduced a bug in __acpi_bus_set_power() and
changed the behavior of acpi_pci_set_power_state() in such a way that
it generally doesn't work as expected if PCI_D3hot is passed to it
as the second argument.

First off, if ACPI_STATE_D3 (equal to ACPI_STATE_D3_COLD) is passed
to __acpi_bus_set_power() and the explicit_set flag is set for the
D3cold state, the function will try to execute AML method called
"_PS4", which doesn't exist.

Fix this by adding a check to ensure that the name of the AML method
to execute for transitions to ACPI_STATE_D3_COLD is correct in
__acpi_bus_set_power(). Also make sure that the explicit_set flag
for ACPI_STATE_D3_COLD will be set if _PS3 is present and modify
acpi_power_transition() to avoid accessing power resources for
ACPI_STATE_D3_COLD, because they don't exist.

Second, if PCI_D3hot is passed to acpi_pci_set_power_state() as the
target state, the function will request a transition to
ACPI_STATE_D3_HOT instead of ACPI_STATE_D3. However,
ACPI_STATE_D3_HOT is now only marked as supported if the _PR3 AML
method is defined for the given device, which is rare. This causes
problems to happen on systems where devices were successfully put
into ACPI D3 by pci_set_power_state(PCI_D3hot) which doesn't work
now. In particular, some unused graphics adapters are not turned
off as a result.

To fix this issue restore the old behavior of
acpi_pci_set_power_state(), which is to request a transition to
ACPI_STATE_D3 (equal to ACPI_STATE_D3_COLD) if either PCI_D3hot or
PCI_D3cold is passed to it as the argument.

This approach is not ideal, because generally power should not
be removed from devices if PCI_D3hot is the target power state,
but since this behavior is relied on, we have no choice but to
restore it at the moment and spend more time on designing a
better solution in the future.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43228
Reported-by: rocko<rockorequin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Cristian RodrÃguez<crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-tested-by: Peter<lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@xxxxxxx>
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Ok, tested this one in the affected box, it works.

echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
[ 77.436767] VGA switcheroo: switched nouveau off
[ 77.437004] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Disabling display...
[ 77.437110] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Disabling fbcon...
[ 77.437113] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Unpinning framebuffer(s)...
[ 77.437157] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Evicting buffers...
[ 77.439175] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Idling channels...
[ 77.439316] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Suspending GPU objects...
[ 77.771133] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: And we're gone!
[ 78.082258] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D3

laptop's fan is silent again :-) , thanks for fixing it !



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