[PATCH 3.2 37/94] ACPI / battery: Retry to get battery information if failed during probing

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 12:58:35 EST


3.2.62-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 75646e758a0ecbed5024454507d5be5b9ea9dcbf upstream.

Some machines (eg. Lenovo Z480) ECs are not stable during boot up
and causes battery driver fails to be loaded due to failure of getting
battery information from EC sometimes. After several retries, the
operation will work. This patch is to retry to get battery information 5
times if the first try fails.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75581
Reported-and-tested-by: naszar <naszar@xxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: acpi_battery_update() doesn't take a second parameter]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/battery.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <linux/dmi.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <asm/unaligned.h>

#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
@@ -1055,6 +1056,28 @@ static int battery_notify(struct notifie
return 0;
}

+/*
+ * Some machines'(E,G Lenovo Z480) ECs are not stable
+ * during boot up and this causes battery driver fails to be
+ * probed due to failure of getting battery information
+ * from EC sometimes. After several retries, the operation
+ * may work. So add retry code here and 20ms sleep between
+ * every retries.
+ */
+static int acpi_battery_update_retry(struct acpi_battery *battery)
+{
+ int retry, ret;
+
+ for (retry = 5; retry; retry--) {
+ ret = acpi_battery_update(battery);
+ if (!ret)
+ break;
+
+ msleep(20);
+ }
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_device *device)
{
int result = 0;
@@ -1074,9 +1097,11 @@ static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_
if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(battery->device->handle,
"_BIX", &handle)))
set_bit(ACPI_BATTERY_XINFO_PRESENT, &battery->flags);
- result = acpi_battery_update(battery);
+
+ result = acpi_battery_update_retry(battery);
if (result)
goto fail;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
result = acpi_battery_add_fs(device);
#endif

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