Re: ACPI regression in 2.6.25-rc6 (function keys stop working)

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

Hi Guillaume,

Thanks for tests, it looks like call_psw_on_capable_devices.patch does not
help at all, and we should just revert the offending patch.

Sorry for the toruble,
Alex.

Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
>
> Thanks for your assistance. Here are the results of various tests:
>
> === vanilla:
>            CPU0
>   0:      14637   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>   1:        213   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   3:          2   IO-APIC-edge
>   8:          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>   9:        318   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:       3534   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  14:      12481   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  15:          0   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  16:      14609   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5, firewire_ohci,
> radeon@pci:0000:01:00.0
>  17:       5681   IO-APIC-fasteoi   yenta, ipw2200, Intel ICH6
>  18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, sdhc0:slot0, eth0
>  19:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3
>  20:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Intel ICH6 Modem
>  23:          4   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
> NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:      22742   Local timer interrupts
> TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
> SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
>
> ACPI keys don't work at all
>
> === 2c81ce4c9c3 reverted:
>
>            CPU0
>   0:      13379   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>   1:        205   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   3:          2   IO-APIC-edge
>   8:          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>   9:       3599   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:       3654   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  14:      13034   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  15:          0   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  16:      14073   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5, firewire_ohci,
> radeon@pci:0000:01:00.0
>  17:       7855   IO-APIC-fasteoi   yenta, ipw2200, Intel ICH6
>  18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, eth0, sdhc0:slot0
>  19:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3
>  20:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Intel ICH6 Modem
>  23:          4   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
> NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:      22153   Local timer interrupts
> TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
> SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
>
> ACPI keys work fine.
>
> === 2c81ce4c9c3 reverted + call_psw_on_capable_devices.patch
>
>            CPU0
>   0:      12372   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>   1:        195   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   3:          2   IO-APIC-edge
>   8:          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>   9:       7976   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:       1824   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  14:      12168   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  15:          0   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  16:      11829   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5, firewire_ohci,
> radeon@pci:0000:01:00.0
>  17:       4803   IO-APIC-fasteoi   yenta, ipw2200, Intel ICH6
>  18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, sdhc0:slot0, eth0
>  19:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3
>  20:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Intel ICH6 Modem
>  23:         58   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
> NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:      21962   Local timer interrupts
> TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
> SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
>
> ACPI keys work fine.
>
> === dont_disable_ec_gpe_completely_at_storm.patch
>
>            CPU0
>   0:      19657   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>   1:        434   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   3:          2   IO-APIC-edge
>   8:          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>   9:       3310   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:       7224   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  14:      13055   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  15:          0   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
>  16:      18637   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5, firewire_ohci,
> radeon@pci:0000:01:00.0
>  17:       7281   IO-APIC-fasteoi   yenta, ipw2200, Intel ICH6
>  18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, eth0, sdhc0:slot0
>  19:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3
>  20:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Intel ICH6 Modem
>  23:          4   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
> NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:      26645   Local timer interrupts
> TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
> SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
>
> dmesg contains:
> ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, throttle EC GPE
> ACPI: EC: missing write data confirmation, don't expect it any longer.
>
> ACPI keys quite work but are very laggy (in the order of seconds).
>
>
> Conclusion: I never experienced acpi interrupts flood in any case, in
> vanilla the interrupt count is much lower but then there are no
> interrupts even when I press acpi keys.
> dont_disable_ec_gpe_completely_at_storm.patch does not correctly fix
> the problem for me. When 2c81ce4c9c3 is reverted,
> call_psw_on_capable_devices.patch makes no difference as it still
> works well.
>
> Thanks.

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