RE: [PATCH] ACPICA: Export mutex functions

[Zheng, Lv]

Hi,

> From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Export mutex functions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:39:35AM +0000, Zheng, Lv wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Export mutex functions
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:29:55PM +0000, Moore, Robert wrote:
> > > > The ACPICA mutex functions are based on the host OS functions, so they don't really buy you
> anything.
> > > You should just use the native Linux functions.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You mean they don't really acquire the requested ACPI mutex,
> > > and the underlying DSDT which declares and uses the mutex
> > > just ignores if the mutex was acquired by acpi_acquire_mutex() ?
> > >
> > > To clarify: You are saying that code such as
> > >
> > > 	acpi_status status;
> > >
> > > 	status = acpi_acquire_mutex(NULL, "\\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.SIO1.MUT0", 0x10);
> > > 	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> > > 		pr_err("Failed to acquire ACPI mutex\n");
> > > 		return -EBUSY;
> > > 	}
> >
> > Why do you need to access \_SB.PCI0.SBRG.SIO1.MUT0?
> > OSPM should only invoke entry methods predefined by ACPI spec or whatever specs.
> > There shouldn't be any needs that a driver acquires an arbitrary AML mutex.
> > You do not seem to have justified the usage model, IMO.
> >
> 
> I am sorry, I have no idea how to do that. I can see that the resource in
> question (IO address 0x2e/0x2f) is accessed from the DSDT, that the resource
> is mutex protected, and that accesses to the same IO address from the Linux
> kernel are unreliable unless I acquire the mutex in question. At the same time,
> I can see that request_muxed_region() succeeds, so presumably ACPI does not
> reserve the region for its exclusive use.

Please refer to my previous reply.
Why don't you make it safe in super IO driver and the opregion driver in first place.
Then check if you still need to acquire the mutex.

> 
> It may well be that the "official" response to this problem is "you must
> not instantiate a watchdog, environmental monitor, or gpio driver (or anything
> else provided by the Super-IO chip that requires access to those ports) on this
> platform in Linux". Is that what you are suggesting ?
> 

I didn't mean that.
Probably you have synchronization problems in the OS driver.

Thanks and best regards
Lv

> Thanks,
> Guenter