Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jul 25 2013 - 08:50:30 EST


On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a and efaa14c?
> >
> > Yes, but let's wait a while. Not because I think we'll fix the problem
> > (hey, miracles might happen), but because I think it would be useful
> > to couple the reverts with information about the particular machines
> > that broke (and the people who reported it). So that when we
> > inevitably try again, we can perhaps get some testing effort with
> > those machines/people.
> >
> > It doesn't seem to be a show-stopped for a large number of people, so
> > there's no huge hurry. I'd suggest doing the revert just in time for
> > rc3, but waiting until then to gather info about people who see
> > breakage.
> >
> > Sound like a plan?
>
> Yes, it does.

OK, time to revert I guess.

James, Kamal, Steven, JÃrg, Martin, Kalle, please check if the apppended patch
fixes the backlight for you.

Aaron, please double check if acpi_video_backlight_quirks() will still work as
needed.

Thanks,
Rafael


---
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Revert "ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware expects Windows 8"

We attempted to address a regression introduced by commit a57f7f9
(ACPICA: Add Windows8/Server2012 string for _OSI method.) after which
ACPI video backlight support doesn't work on a number of systems,
because the relevant AML methods in the ACPI tables in their BIOSes
become useless after the BIOS has been told that the OS is compatible
with Windows 8. That problem is tracked by the bug entry at:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51231

Commit 8c5bd7a (ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware
expects Windows 8) introduced for this purpose essentially prevented
the ACPI backlight support from being used if the BIOS had been told
that the OS was compatible with Windows 8 and the i915 driver was
loaded, in which case the backlight would always be handled by i915.
Unfortunately, however, that turned out to cause problems with
backlight to appear on multiple systems with symptoms indicating that
i915 was unable to control the backlight on those systems as
expected.

For this reason, revert commit 8c5bd7a, but leave the function
acpi_video_backlight_quirks() introduced by it, because another
commit on top of it uses that function.

References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/21/119
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/22/261
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/429
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/459
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/81
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/27
Reported-by: James Hogan <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Steven Newbury <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: JÃrg Otte <jrg.otte@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/internal.h | 2 -
drivers/acpi/video.c | 67 ++++------------------------------------
drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 15 --------
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 2 -
include/acpi/video.h | 11 ------
include/linux/acpi.h | 1
6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/video.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(s
if (acpi_video_init_brightness(device))
return;

- if (acpi_video_verify_backlight_support()) {
+ if (acpi_video_backlight_support()) {
struct backlight_properties props;
struct pci_dev *pdev;
acpi_handle acpi_parent;
@@ -1344,8 +1344,8 @@ acpi_video_switch_brightness(struct acpi
unsigned long long level_current, level_next;
int result = -EINVAL;

- /* no warning message if acpi_backlight=vendor or a quirk is used */
- if (!acpi_video_verify_backlight_support())
+ /* no warning message if acpi_backlight=vendor is used */
+ if (!acpi_video_backlight_support())
return 0;

if (!device->brightness)
@@ -1843,46 +1843,6 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_remove(struct
return 0;
}

-static acpi_status video_unregister_backlight(acpi_handle handle, u32 lvl,
- void *context, void **rv)
-{
- struct acpi_device *acpi_dev;
- struct acpi_video_bus *video;
- struct acpi_video_device *dev, *next;
-
- if (acpi_bus_get_device(handle, &acpi_dev))
- return AE_OK;
-
- if (acpi_match_device_ids(acpi_dev, video_device_ids))
- return AE_OK;
-
- video = acpi_driver_data(acpi_dev);
- if (!video)
- return AE_OK;
-
- acpi_video_bus_stop_devices(video);
- mutex_lock(&video->device_list_lock);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(dev, next, &video->video_device_list, entry) {
- if (dev->backlight) {
- backlight_device_unregister(dev->backlight);
- dev->backlight = NULL;
- kfree(dev->brightness->levels);
- kfree(dev->brightness);
- }
- if (dev->cooling_dev) {
- sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev->dev.kobj,
- "thermal_cooling");
- sysfs_remove_link(&dev->cooling_dev->device.kobj,
- "device");
- thermal_cooling_device_unregister(dev->cooling_dev);
- dev->cooling_dev = NULL;
- }
- }
- mutex_unlock(&video->device_list_lock);
- acpi_video_bus_start_devices(video);
- return AE_OK;
-}
-
static int __init is_i740(struct pci_dev *dev)
{
if (dev->device == 0x00D1)
@@ -1914,25 +1874,14 @@ static int __init intel_opregion_present
return opregion;
}

-int __acpi_video_register(bool backlight_quirks)
+int acpi_video_register(void)
{
- bool no_backlight;
- int result;
-
- no_backlight = backlight_quirks ? acpi_video_backlight_quirks() : false;
-
+ int result = 0;
if (register_count) {
/*
- * If acpi_video_register() has been called already, don't try
- * to register acpi_video_bus, but unregister backlight devices
- * if no backlight support is requested.
+ * if the function of acpi_video_register is already called,
+ * don't register the acpi_vide_bus again and return no error.
*/
- if (no_backlight)
- acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE, ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT,
- ACPI_UINT32_MAX,
- video_unregister_backlight,
- NULL, NULL, NULL);
-
return 0;
}

@@ -1948,7 +1897,7 @@ int __acpi_video_register(bool backlight

return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__acpi_video_register);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_register);

void acpi_video_unregister(void)
{
Index: linux-pm/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1648,7 +1648,7 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *
if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->num_pipes) {
/* Must be done after probing outputs */
intel_opregion_init(dev);
- acpi_video_register_with_quirks();
+ acpi_video_register();
}

if (IS_GEN5(dev))
Index: linux-pm/include/acpi/video.h
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/include/acpi/video.h
+++ linux-pm/include/acpi/video.h
@@ -17,21 +17,12 @@ struct acpi_device;
#define ACPI_VIDEO_DISPLAY_LEGACY_TV 0x0200

#if (defined CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO || defined CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO_MODULE)
-extern int __acpi_video_register(bool backlight_quirks);
-static inline int acpi_video_register(void)
-{
- return __acpi_video_register(false);
-}
-static inline int acpi_video_register_with_quirks(void)
-{
- return __acpi_video_register(true);
-}
+extern int acpi_video_register(void);
extern void acpi_video_unregister(void);
extern int acpi_video_get_edid(struct acpi_device *device, int type,
int device_id, void **edid);
#else
static inline int acpi_video_register(void) { return 0; }
-static inline int acpi_video_register_with_quirks(void) { return 0; }
static inline void acpi_video_unregister(void) { return; }
static inline int acpi_video_get_edid(struct acpi_device *device, int type,
int device_id, void **edid)
Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -235,12 +235,7 @@ static void acpi_video_caps_check(void)

bool acpi_video_backlight_quirks(void)
{
- if (acpi_gbl_osi_data >= ACPI_OSI_WIN_8) {
- acpi_video_caps_check();
- acpi_video_support |= ACPI_VIDEO_SKIP_BACKLIGHT;
- return true;
- }
- return false;
+ return acpi_gbl_osi_data >= ACPI_OSI_WIN_8;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_backlight_quirks);

@@ -288,14 +283,6 @@ int acpi_video_backlight_support(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_backlight_support);

-/* For the ACPI video driver use only. */
-bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support(void)
-{
- return (acpi_video_support & ACPI_VIDEO_SKIP_BACKLIGHT) ?
- false : acpi_video_backlight_support();
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_verify_backlight_support);
-
/*
* Use acpi_backlight=vendor/video to force that backlight switching
* is processed by vendor specific acpi drivers or video.ko driver.
Index: linux-pm/include/linux/acpi.h
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/include/linux/acpi.h
+++ linux-pm/include/linux/acpi.h
@@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ extern bool wmi_has_guid(const char *gui
#define ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT_DMI_VIDEO 0x0200
#define ACPI_VIDEO_OUTPUT_SWITCHING_DMI_VENDOR 0x0400
#define ACPI_VIDEO_OUTPUT_SWITCHING_DMI_VIDEO 0x0800
-#define ACPI_VIDEO_SKIP_BACKLIGHT 0x1000

#if defined(CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO) || defined(CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO_MODULE)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/internal.h
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/internal.h
+++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/internal.h
@@ -169,10 +169,8 @@ int acpi_create_platform_device(struct a
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
#if defined(CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO) || defined(CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO_MODULE)
bool acpi_video_backlight_quirks(void);
-bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support(void);
#else
static inline bool acpi_video_backlight_quirks(void) { return false; }
-static inline bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support(void) { return false; }
#endif

#endif /* _ACPI_INTERNAL_H_ */

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