Re: [PATCH] i2c: i801: Allow ACPI SystemIO OpRegion to conflict harder

From: Lyude Paul
Date: Mon Aug 14 2017 - 12:06:19 EST


On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 13:15 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 04:40:08PM -0400, Lyude wrote:
> > There's quite a number of machines on the market, mainly Lenovo
> > ThinkPads, that make the horrible mistake in their firmware of
> > reusing
> > the PCIBAR space reserved for the SMBus for things that are
> > completely
> > unrelated to the SMBus controller, such as the OpRegion used for
> > i915.
> > This is very bad and entirely evil, but with Lenovo's historically
> > poor
> > track record of fixing their firmware, it is extremely unlikely
> > this is
> > ever going to be properly fixed.
> >
> > So, while it would be nice if we could just cut off the SMBus
> > controller
> > and call it a day this unfortunately breaks RMI4 mode completely
> > for
> > most of the ThinkPads. Even though this behavior is extremely
> > wrong, for
> > whatever reason sharing the PCIBAR between the OpRegion and SMBus
> > seems
> > to be just fine. Regardless however, I think it's safe to assume
> > that
> > when the BIOS accesses the PCIBAR space of the SMBus controller
> > like
> > this that it's trying to get to something else that we mapped the
> > SMBus
> > controller over.
> >
> > On my X1 Carbon, this assumption appears to be correct. I've traced
> > down
> > the firmware accesses to being caused by the firmware mistakenly
> > placing
> > the SWSCI mailbox for i915 on top of the SMBus host controller
> > region.
> > And indeed, blacklisting i915 causes the firmware to never attempt
> > to
> > touch this region.
> >
> > So, in order to try to workaround this and not break either SMBus
> > or
> > i915, we temporarily unmap the PCI device for the SMBus controller,
> > do the thing that the firmware wanted to do, then remap the device
> > and
> > report a firmware bug.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> No full name? Or is it your full name?
Looks like I forgot to change my desktop's S-B identity to full name,
but it shouldn't be a big deal. I've got tons of other patches already
upstream like this.
>
> > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <btissoir@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I don't know this matter at all. I'd need comments from these people
> on
> CC to proceed with this one.
>
> > ---
> > So: unfortunately
> >
> > a7ae81952cda (i2c: i801: Allow ACPI SystemIO OpRegion to conflict
> > with PCI BAR)
> >
> > Seems to prevent the ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th gen and the T460s from
> > actually
> > using their SMBus controllers at all. As mentioned above, I've
> > traced the issue
> > down to the firmware responding to the SWSCI by sticking data in
> > places it
> > shouldn't, e.g. the SMBus registers.
> >
> > I'm entirely unsure if this patch is the correct fix for this, and
> > wouldn't be
> > at all surprised if it's just as bad of a patch as I think it is
> > ;P. So I
> > figured I'd send it to intel-gfx and the authors of the original
> > version of this
> > patch to get their take on it and see if there might be something
> > less hacky we
> > can do to fix this.
> >
> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > ------------
> > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
> > b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
> > index 6484fa6..bfbe0f9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
> > @@ -1406,33 +1406,42 @@ i801_acpi_io_handler(u32 function,
> > acpi_physical_address address, u32 bits,
> > {
> > struct i801_priv *priv = handler_context;
> > struct pci_dev *pdev = priv->pci_dev;
> > + struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> > acpi_status status;
> > + int err;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * Once BIOS AML code touches the OpRegion we warn and
> > inhibit any
> > - * further access from the driver itself. This device is
> > now owned
> > - * by the system firmware.
> > - */
> > mutex_lock(&priv->acpi_lock);
> >
> > - if (!priv->acpi_reserved) {
> > - priv->acpi_reserved = true;
> > + /*
> > + * BIOS AML code should never actually touch the SMBus
> > registers,
> > + * however crappy firmware (mainly Lenovo's) can make the
> > mistake of
> > + * mapping things over the SMBus region that should
> > definitely not be
> > + * there (such as the OpRegion for Intel GPUs).
> > + * This is extremely bad firmware behavior, but it is
> > unlikely this will
> > + * ever get fixed by Lenovo.
> > + */
> > + dev_warn_once(dev,
> > + FW_BUG "OpRegion overlaps with SMBus
> > registers, working around\n");
> >
> > - dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "BIOS is accessing SMBus
> > registers\n");
> > - dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Driver SMBus register access
> > inhibited\n");
> > -
> > - /*
> > - * BIOS is accessing the host controller so
> > prevent it from
> > - * suspending automatically from now on.
> > - */
> > - pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev);
> > - }
> > + pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);
> > + pcim_iounmap_regions(pdev, 1 << SMBBAR);
> >
> > if ((function & ACPI_IO_MASK) == ACPI_READ)
> > status = acpi_os_read_port(address, (u32 *)value,
> > bits);
> > else
> > status = acpi_os_write_port(address, (u32)*value,
> > bits);
> >
> > + err = pcim_iomap_regions(pdev, 1 << SMBBAR,
> > + dev_driver_string(&pdev->dev));
> > + if (err) {
> > + dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> > + FW_BUG "Failed to restore SMBus region
> > 0x%lx-0x%Lx. SMBus is now broken.\n",
> > + priv->smba,
> > + (unsigned long long)pci_resource_end(pdev,
> > SMBBAR));
> > + priv->acpi_reserved = true;
> > + }
> > +
> > + pm_runtime_put(dev);
> > mutex_unlock(&priv->acpi_lock);
> >
> > return status;
> > --
> > 2.9.4
> >