ACPI: Make Embedded Controller command timeout delay configurable

Here and then there show up machines which need higher timeout values.
Finding this on affected machines can be cumbersome, because
ACPI_EC_DELAY is a compile option -> make it configurable via boot param.

This can even be provided writable at runtime via:
/sys/modules/acpi/parameters/ec_delay

Known machines where this helps:
Some HP machines where for whatever reasons specific EC accesses take
very long at resume from S3 (in _WAK function).
The AE_TIME error is passed upwards and the ACPI interpreter will
not execute the rest of the _WAK function which results in not properly
initialized devices/variables with different side-effects.

Afaik, on some MSI machines this helped as well.

If this param is needed there probably are underlying problems like:
  - EC firmware bug
  - A kernel EC driver bug
  - An ACPI interpreter behavior (e.g. timings when specific
    EC accesses happen and how) which the EC does not like
  - ...
which should get evaluated further, but often are nasty or
impossible to fix from OS side.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
index f31291ba94d0..372ff80b7b0c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ enum {
         EC_FLAGS_BLOCKED,               /* Transactions are blocked */
 };
 
+/* ec.c is compiled in acpi namespace so this shows up as acpi.ec_delay param */
+static unsigned int ec_delay __read_mostly = ACPI_EC_DELAY;
+module_param(ec_delay, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ec_delay, "Timeout(ms) waited until an EC command completes");
+
 /* If we find an EC via the ECDT, we need to keep a ptr to its context */
 /* External interfaces use first EC only, so remember */
 typedef int (*acpi_ec_query_func) (void *data);
@@ -210,7 +215,7 @@ static int ec_poll(struct acpi_ec *ec)
         int repeat = 2; /* number of command restarts */
         while (repeat--) {
                 unsigned long delay = jiffies +
-                        msecs_to_jiffies(ACPI_EC_DELAY);
+                        msecs_to_jiffies(ec_delay);
                 do {
                         /* don't sleep with disabled interrupts */
                         if (EC_FLAGS_MSI || irqs_disabled()) {
@@ -265,7 +270,7 @@ static int ec_check_ibf0(struct acpi_ec *ec)
 
 static int ec_wait_ibf0(struct acpi_ec *ec)
 {
-        unsigned long delay = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(ACPI_EC_DELAY);
+        unsigned long delay = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(ec_delay);
         /* interrupt wait manually if GPE mode is not active */
         while (time_before(jiffies, delay))
                 if (wait_event_timeout(ec->wait, ec_check_ibf0(ec),