Re: [PATCH] ACPI Suspend: Enable ACPI during resume if SCI_EN is notset

From: Len Brown
Date: Mon Oct 06 2008 - 01:35:31 EST


applied to acpi-test.

thanks,
-Len

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> ACPI Suspend: Enable ACPI during resume if SCI_EN is not set
>
> On some machines, like for example MSI Wind U100, the BIOS doesn't
> enable ACPI before returning control to the OS, which sometimes
> causes resume to fail. This is against the ACPI specification,
> which clearly states that "When the platform is waking from an S1, S2
> or S3 state, OSPM assumes the hardware is already in the ACPI mode
> and will not issue an ACPI_ENABLE", but it won't hurt to check the
> SCI_EN bit and enable ACPI during resume from S3 if this bit is not
> set.
>
> Fortunately, we already have acpi_enable() for that, so use it in the
> resume code path, before executing _BFS, in analogy with the
> resume-from-hibernation code path.
>
> NOTE: We aren't supposed to set SCI_EN directly, because it's owned
> by the hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
> @@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ static int acpi_suspend_enter(suspend_st
> break;
> }
>
> + /* If ACPI is not enabled by the BIOS, we need to enable it here. */
> + acpi_enable();
> /* Reprogram control registers and execute _BFS */
> acpi_leave_sleep_state_prep(acpi_state);
>
>
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