Re: acpi-test tree on eeepc: EC error message on second resume

From: Alan Jenkins
Date: Sat Oct 11 2008 - 14:15:44 EST


Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 of October 2008, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, 11 of October 2008, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've just run an acpi-test kernel on my EeePC and noticed a new issue.
>>>> It seems to be caused (or revealed) by the EC interrupt transaction patch.
>>>>
>>>> On the second suspend/resume cycle, I see a kernel error message.
>>>>
>>>> [ 78.747707] ACPI: Waking up from system sleep state S3
>>>> [ 79.330001] ACPI: EC: input buffer not empty, aborting transaction
>>>> [ 79.423327] ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to
>>>> interrupt mode
>>>>
>>>> I still don't see any issues in the code. I'll try getting a DEBUG
>>>> trace to see the EC interrupts. Any other suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not really, but is this reproducible? I mean, does it happen always on the
>>> second resume and does it happen on every next resume after the first one?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rafael
>>>
>>>
>> Ah. No, I spoke to soon. It happened on the second resume the first
>> two times I tried it. But this third time with DEBUG enabled, it
>> happened on the first suspend/resume.
>>
>> And it doesn't happen on all subsequent resumes either. I've had one
>> suspend/resume without the error, just after a suspend/resume with the
>> error.
>>
>> So it's not deterministic, but it is easy to reproduce.
>>
>
> I can't reproduce this on any hardware available to me, so far.
>
> Is this related to any other problem, like things not working etc.?
>

Nope, just an error message. Though I do worry that "random EC
transaction aborts during resume" could hit something important
somewhere, sometime.

I think I found the problem. The "input buffer empty" wait depends on
"interrupt mode" to work properly, and we don't immediately enable the
interrupt on resume. The wait should have a polling fallback anyway, to
be consistent with the other transaction waits.

Alan
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