Re: [PATCH -v2] RTC: Add an alarm disable quirk

From: John Stultz
Date: Mon Jul 22 2013 - 17:00:50 EST


On 07/20/2013 10:00 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
41c7f7424259f ("rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware (v2)") added the
functionality to disable the RTC wake alarm when shutting down the box.

However, there are at least two b0rked BIOSes we know about:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812592
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805740

where, when wakeup alarm is enabled in the BIOS, the machine reboots
automatically right after shutdown, regardless of what wakeup time is
programmed.

Also, just to clarify, on the affected machines, with this patch, wake-up alarm's will in effect be disabled, right?


Bisecting the issue lead to this patch so disable its functionality with
a DMI quirk only for those boxes.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
index be06d7150de5..906b45c644e1 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
-#include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/pm.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/of_platform.h>
+#include <linux/dmi.h>
/* this is for "generic access to PC-style RTC" using CMOS_READ/CMOS_WRITE */
#include <asm-generic/rtc.h>
@@ -377,6 +377,39 @@ static int cmos_set_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *t)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * Do not disable RTC alarm on shutdown - workaround for b0rked BIOSes.
+ */
+static bool disable_alarm = true;
+
+static int __init clear_disable_alarm(const struct dmi_system_id *id)
+{
+ disable_alarm = false;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct dmi_system_id rtc_quirks[] __initconst = {
+ /* https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805740 */
+ {
+ .callback = clear_disable_alarm,
+ .ident = "IBM Truman",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TOSHIBA"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "4852570"),
+ },
+ },
+ /* https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812592 */
+ {
+ .callback = clear_disable_alarm,
+ .ident = "Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "GA-990XA-UD3"),
+ },
+ },
+ {}
+};
+
static int cmos_alarm_irq_enable(struct device *dev, unsigned int enabled)
{
struct cmos_rtc *cmos = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
@@ -385,6 +418,9 @@ static int cmos_alarm_irq_enable(struct device *dev, unsigned int enabled)
if (!is_valid_irq(cmos->irq))
return -EINVAL;
+ if (!disable_alarm)
+ return 0;
+

Did you want this in cmos_alarm_irq_enable? Or cmos_irq_disable?

thanks
-john

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