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| author | Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> | 2019-08-27 18:21:20 -0600 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2019-08-28 11:20:33 +0200 |
| commit | 4c4cdc4c63853fee48c02e25c8605fb65a6c9924 (patch) | |
| tree | 154a40bdaa74b4122e50ec031a45a38a973aa7a5 /drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | |
| parent | a55aa89aab90fae7c815b0551b07be37db359d76 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4c4cdc4c63853fee48c02e25c8605fb65a6c9924.tar.bz2 | |
ACPI / CPPC: do not require the _PSD method
According to the ACPI 6.3 specification, the _PSD method is optional
when using CPPC. The underlying assumption is that each CPU can change
frequency independently from all other CPUs; _PSD is provided to tell
the OS that some processors can NOT do that.
However, the acpi_get_psd() function returns ENODEV if there is no _PSD
method present, or an ACPI error status if an error occurs when evaluating
_PSD, if present. This makes _PSD mandatory when using CPPC, in violation
of the specification, and only on Linux.
This has forced some firmware writers to provide a dummy _PSD, even though
it is irrelevant, but only because Linux requires it; other OSPMs follow
the spec. We really do not want to have OS specific ACPI tables, though.
So, correct acpi_get_psd() so that it does not return an error if there
is no _PSD method present, but does return a failure when the method can
not be executed properly. This allows _PSD to be optional as it should
be.
Signed-off-by: Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c index 15f103d7532b..3b2525908dd8 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c @@ -365,8 +365,10 @@ static int acpi_get_psd(struct cpc_desc *cpc_ptr, acpi_handle handle) union acpi_object *psd = NULL; struct acpi_psd_package *pdomain; - status = acpi_evaluate_object_typed(handle, "_PSD", NULL, &buffer, - ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE); + status = acpi_evaluate_object_typed(handle, "_PSD", NULL, + &buffer, ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE); + if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND) /* _PSD is optional */ + return 0; if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) return -ENODEV; |