In the original EC driver, though the event handling is not explicitly
stopped, the EC driver is actually not able to handle events during the
noirq stage as the EC driver is not prepared to handle the EC events in the
polling mode. So if there is no advance_transaction() triggered, the EC
driver couldn't notice the EC events.
However, do we actually need to handle EC events during suspend/resume
stage? EC events are mostly useless for the suspend/resume period (key
strokes and battery/thermal updates, etc.,), and the useful ones (lid
close, power/sleep button press) should have already been delivered to the
OSPM to trigger the power saving operations.
Thus this patch implements acpi_ec_disable_event() to be a reverse call of
acpi_ec_enable_event(), with which, the EC driver is able to stop handling
the EC events in a position before entering the noirq stage.
Since there are actually 2 choices for us:
1. implement event handling in polling mode;
2. stop event handling before entering noirq stage.
And this patch only implements the second choice using .suspend() callback.
Thus this is experimental (first choice is better? or different hook
position is better?). This patch finally keeps the old behavior by default
and prepares a boot parameter to enable this feature.
The differences of the event handling availability between the old behavior
(this patch is not applied) and the new behavior (this patch is applied)
are as follows:
!FreezeEvents FreezeEvents
before suspend Y Y
suspend before EC Y Y
suspend after EC Y N
suspend_late Y N
suspend_noirq Y (actually N) N
resume_noirq Y (actually N) N
resume_late Y (actually N) N
resume before EC Y (actually N) N
resume after EC Y Y
after resume Y Y
Where "actually N" means if there is no EC transactions, the EC driver
is actually not able to notice the pending events.
We can see that FreezeEvents is the only approach now can actually flush
the EC event handling with both query commands and _Qxx evaluations
flushed, other modes can only flush the EC event handling with only query
commands flushed, _Qxx evaluations occurred after stopping the EC driver
may end up failure due to the failure of the EC transaction carried out in
the _Qxx control methods.
We also can see that this feature should be able to trigger some platform
notifications later than resuming other drivers.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Tested-by: Todd E Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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