Messages in this thread | | | From | "Zheng, Lv" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2 03/28] ACPICA: Hardware: Enable 64-bit firmware waking vector for selected FACS. | Date | Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:39:22 +0000 |
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Hi, Rafael
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@rjwysocki.net] > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 9:21 AM > > On Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:29:02 AM Zheng, Lv wrote: > > Hi, Rafael > > > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@rjwysocki.net] > > > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 7:24 AM > > > To: Zheng, Lv > > [cut] > > > > > > > In fact, I don't see why we need to redefine the symbols at all. > > > > > > Couldn't acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector() be defined to take u32 and u64 so > > > we could just pass acpi_wakeup_address (as already defined) as the first argument > > > and 0 as the second argument to it? The back-and-forth type casts from and > > > to acpi_physical_address don't look entirely clean to me. > > > > > > Moreover, I don't really see a functional difference between the old and the > > > new code. > > > > > > The old code does "set the 32-bit waking vector and clear the 64-bit waking > > > vector if present". The new code does "set the 32-bit waking vector and > > > either clear the 64-bit one if present, or assign the second function argument > > > to it", but we always pass 0 as the second argument (which is *extremely* > > > obfuscated in your patch), so I really don't see the difference here. > > > > > > Am I missing anything? > > > > The story is: > > According to the test, if both 32-bit waking vector and 64-bit waking vector is > > set by the OSPM, > > The current code in Linux never does that. > > It never calls acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector64() and the acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector() > (before your patch) explicitly clears the 64-bit vector address.
In ACPICA upstream, this is an issue before applying this patch. acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector64() and acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector() depends on ACPI_MACHINE_WIDTH definition, thus cannot be used for this purpose.
> > > BIOSes only support 32-bit resume environment will jump to the 32-bit waking > > vector address and BIOSes support 64-bit resume environment will jump to > > 64-bit waking vector. > > Which doesn't matter for Linux one whit.
The bug report is against the 64-bit address favor mechanism. But if the OSPM can support resuming from 64-bit waking vector, the 64-bit address favor mechanism doesn't seem to be buggy.
> > > So they can be set by the OSPMs simultaneously to indicate that the OSPM can > > support both resume environments. That's why ACPICA interface is changed. > > It shouldn't. It just forces host OSes to make pointless changes to their > non-ACPICA code. > > As I said elsewhere, the old acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector() should still be > available to the OSes that don't care about the 64-bit waking vector and a *new* > interface should be added for those OSes that do care about it. And *internally* > acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector() can be defined in terms of the new interface, > but there's no reason at all for a host OS to care about that.
OK, we can refine the interface inside of ACPICA.
> > So the $subject patch is entirely poitless. It doesn't fix anything and it > doesn't even change the way the code works today in Linux. It just adds > complexity and pointlessly redefines some stuff. >
It doesn't fix any functionality problem right here in this patch. But it fixes the code logic problem that acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector64()/acpi_set_firmware_waking_vector() depends on ACPI_MACHINE_WIDTH definition. And it facilitates the OSPMs with the capability to support both 32-bit/64-bit resuming environment.
> So I'm not going to apply it.
OK, I'll go back to refine the interface change.
Thanks and best regards -Lv
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