From: Nikolaus Voss <nv@vosn.de>
To: "Shevchenko, Andriy" <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: "Schmauss, Erik" <erik.schmauss@intel.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>,
Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"devel@acpica.org" <devel@acpica.org>,
"linux-leds@vger.kernel.org" <linux-leds@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: Resolve objects on host-directed table loads
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 09:20:03 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1909040913230.15999@fox.voss.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830145348.GM2680@smile.fi.intel.com>
Andy,
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 01:57:26PM +0200, Nikolaus Voss wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Schmauss, Erik wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Shevchenko, Andriy
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 11:51 AM
>>>> To: Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de>
>>>> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>; Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>;
>>>> Moore, Robert <robert.moore@intel.com>; Schmauss, Erik
>>>> <erik.schmauss@intel.com>; Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>;
>>>> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>; Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>; Thierry
>>>> Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>; linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org;
>>>> devel@acpica.org; linux-leds@vger.kernel.org; linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: Resolve objects on host-directed table loads
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 02:18:20PM +0200, Nikolaus Voss wrote:
>>>>> If an ACPI SSDT overlay is loaded after built-in tables have been
>>>>> loaded e.g. via configfs or efivar_ssdt_load() it is necessary to
>>>>> rewalk the namespace to resolve references. Without this, relative and
>>>>> absolute paths like ^PCI0.SBUS or \_SB.PCI0.SBUS are not resolved
>>>>> correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Make configfs load use the same method as efivar_ssdt_load().
>>>>
>>>> This patch brought a regression (bisect log below).
>>>> Now I'm unable to unload the table which was working before.
>>>>
>>>> Reverting (manual, due to ACPICA changes) helps.
>>>>
>>>> Please, consider to revert for this cycle, or fix. I will be glad to test any
>>>> proposed fix.
>>>
>>> We submitted a patch (d1fb5b2f623b1af5a0d2a83d205df1b61f430dc6)
>>> in response to this suggestion and I was not aware that this had been applied.
>>>
>>> Rafael, please revert at least the ACPICA portion of this patch.
>>
>> As I see it, my ACPICA change is not part of 5.3-rc1 any more. Reverting my
>> fix is part of the patch above (d1fb5b2f623b1af5a0d2a83d205df1b61f430dc6)
>> which is already applied.
>>
>> Nevertheless, what is new, is that acpi_ns_initialize_objects() is called in
>> acpi_load_table(). This is necessary to resolve the references in the newly
>> loaded table. Maybe this prevents the table from being unloaded?
>
> So, can we do something about it? It's a regression.
>
> Rafael, Nikolaus?
can you describe how you unload the table (from userspace?). I cannot
reproduce this regression. I was not aware of any working interface for
unloading ACPI tables, I ended up in kexec'ing the kernel for my tests
each time I had to unload a table.
Niko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-29 12:18 [PATCH 0/3] PWM framework: add support referencing PWMs from ACPI Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-29 12:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: Resolve objects on host-directed table loads Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-30 14:42 ` Dan Murphy
2019-05-31 12:23 ` Pavel Machek
2019-05-31 12:45 ` Dan Murphy
2019-05-31 12:46 ` Dan Murphy
2019-06-03 9:12 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-08-14 18:50 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-08-14 20:27 ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-08-16 11:57 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-08-30 14:53 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-04 7:20 ` Nikolaus Voss [this message]
2019-09-06 17:46 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-12 8:05 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-12 8:07 ` [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-12 14:19 ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-12 19:36 ` Ferry Toth
2019-09-25 18:13 ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26 8:09 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-13 7:44 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-13 14:20 ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-13 15:12 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-13 16:48 ` Ferry Toth
2019-09-13 16:48 ` Ferry Toth
2019-09-13 17:40 ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-13 19:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-16 9:46 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-18 14:13 ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-18 14:31 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-19 17:05 ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-23 9:05 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-24 19:41 ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-25 10:18 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-25 10:53 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-19 8:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-23 9:08 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-23 9:47 ` [PATCH] ACPICA: Introduce acpi_load_table_with_index() Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-24 12:07 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-24 12:08 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-25 10:20 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-24 15:11 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-09-25 10:22 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-26 16:09 ` [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26 16:35 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-26 16:51 ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26 17:47 ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-26 18:44 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-26 19:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-26 19:41 ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26 18:43 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-29 12:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] PWM framework: add support referencing PWMs from ACPI Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-30 14:54 ` Dan Murphy
2019-05-31 12:24 ` Pavel Machek
2019-06-03 9:27 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-29 12:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] leds-pwm.c: support ACPI via firmware-node framework Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-30 15:14 ` Dan Murphy
2019-06-03 9:44 ` Nikolaus Voss
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