Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Remove ACPI SPMI probing from the SSIF (I2C) driver

[Jiandi An]

On 03/08/2018 03:08 PM, minyard@xxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The IPMI spec states:
>
>    The purpose of the SPMI Table is to provide a mechanism that can
>    be used by the OSPM (an ACPI term for âOS Operating System-directed
>    configuration and Power Managementâ essentially meaning an ACPI-aware
>    OS or OS loader) very early in the boot process, e.g., before the
>    ability to execute ACPI control methods in the OS is available.
>
> When we are probing IPMI in Linux, ACPI control methods are available,
> so we shouldn't be probing using SPMI.  It could cause some confusion
> during the probing process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiandi An <anjiandi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Jiandi, this just yanks out the SPMI code.  Your platform
> should have an ACPI control method in it's namespace specifying the
> IPMI interface.  If it doesn't, that's a bug in your platform and
> really needs to be fixed.  Finding IPMI devices with SMBIOS tables
> is kind of risky since there is no real way to know which I2C bus
> has the IPMI device if your system has more than one I2C bus.  With
> an ACPI control method, the IPMI control method will be inside the
> I2C bus control method, so it will be unambiguous.

Thanks Corey.  I tested this patch.  It works for us through the ACPI
control method.  By the way, FYI the ipmi_si driver is also having the
SPMI probe code.

[   17.370835] ipmi_si: probing via SPMI

Thanks
- Jiandi

>   drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 105 ------------------------------------------
>   1 file changed, 105 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
> index 4cff4cd..206257b 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
> @@ -1994,108 +1994,6 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id ssif_acpi_match[] = {
>   	{ },
>   };
>   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, ssif_acpi_match);
> -
> -/*
> - * Once we get an ACPI failure, we don't try any more, because we go
> - * through the tables sequentially.  Once we don't find a table, there
> - * are no more.
> - */
> -static int acpi_failure;
> -
> -/*
> - * Defined in the IPMI 2.0 spec.
> - */
> -struct SPMITable {
> -	s8	Signature[4];
> -	u32	Length;
> -	u8	Revision;
> -	u8	Checksum;
> -	s8	OEMID[6];
> -	s8	OEMTableID[8];
> -	s8	OEMRevision[4];
> -	s8	CreatorID[4];
> -	s8	CreatorRevision[4];
> -	u8	InterfaceType;
> -	u8	IPMIlegacy;
> -	s16	SpecificationRevision;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * Bit 0 - SCI interrupt supported
> -	 * Bit 1 - I/O APIC/SAPIC
> -	 */
> -	u8	InterruptType;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * If bit 0 of InterruptType is set, then this is the SCI
> -	 * interrupt in the GPEx_STS register.
> -	 */
> -	u8	GPE;
> -
> -	s16	Reserved;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * If bit 1 of InterruptType is set, then this is the I/O
> -	 * APIC/SAPIC interrupt.
> -	 */
> -	u32	GlobalSystemInterrupt;
> -
> -	/* The actual register address. */
> -	struct acpi_generic_address addr;
> -
> -	u8	UID[4];
> -
> -	s8      spmi_id[1]; /* A '\0' terminated array starts here. */
> -};
> -
> -static int try_init_spmi(struct SPMITable *spmi)
> -{
> -	unsigned short myaddr;
> -
> -	if (num_addrs >= MAX_SSIF_BMCS)
> -		return -1;
> -
> -	if (spmi->IPMIlegacy != 1) {
> -		pr_warn("IPMI: Bad SPMI legacy: %d\n", spmi->IPMIlegacy);
> -		return -ENODEV;
> -	}
> -
> -	if (spmi->InterfaceType != 4)
> -		return -ENODEV;
> -
> -	if (spmi->addr.space_id != ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SMBUS) {
> -		pr_warn(PFX "Invalid ACPI SSIF I/O Address type: %d\n",
> -			spmi->addr.space_id);
> -		return -EIO;
> -	}
> -
> -	myaddr = spmi->addr.address & 0x7f;
> -
> -	return new_ssif_client(myaddr, NULL, 0, 0, SI_SPMI, NULL);
> -}
> -
> -static void spmi_find_bmc(void)
> -{
> -	acpi_status      status;
> -	struct SPMITable *spmi;
> -	int              i;
> -
> -	if (acpi_disabled)
> -		return;
> -
> -	if (acpi_failure)
> -		return;
> -
> -	for (i = 0; ; i++) {
> -		status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_SPMI, i+1,
> -					(struct acpi_table_header **)&spmi);
> -		if (status != AE_OK)
> -			return;
> -
> -		try_init_spmi(spmi);
> -	}
> -}
> -#else
> -static void spmi_find_bmc(void) { }
>   #endif
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_DMI
> @@ -2200,9 +2098,6 @@ static int init_ipmi_ssif(void)
>   		ssif_i2c_driver.driver.acpi_match_table	=
>   			ACPI_PTR(ssif_acpi_match);
>   
> -	if (ssif_tryacpi)
> -		spmi_find_bmc();
> -
>   	if (ssif_trydmi) {
>   		rv = platform_driver_register(&ipmi_driver);
>   		if (rv)

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Jiandi An
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