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From: Alan Jenkins
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or other GPEs) on Asus EeePC
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 9:02 am

Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
Vacuously so.

My patch still applies, but #10919 makes it obsolete.  My patch fixed a
bug that shows up in polling mode.  #10919 kills polling mode.

I've tested v2.6.26 + #10919 and it works fine (except for spamming the
kernel log - please read my Bugzilla comment).


It appears that interrupt mode suffered from a race which is very
similar to my original problem.  If two GPE interrupts arrive before the
workqueue runs, then the second interrupt will be ignored because
EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING is still set.  This will happen with any EC if
interrupts are very close together, right?

I think my patch also fixes this theoretical problem.  But I'd rather
you took over on this.  I was already confused by ec.c in v2.6.26, and
with #10919 I understand it even less.  E.g. why is
ec_switch_to_poll_mode() still present; what does it do now do_ec_poll()
is removed?

I'm happy to work on this with you, but I'd need to be able understand
the code first :-(.

Alan
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[PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or other ..., Alan Jenkins, (Tue Jul 15, 3:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alexey Starikovskiy, (Thu Jul 17, 4:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu Jul 17, 5:13 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alexey Starikovskiy, (Thu Jul 17, 5:30 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alexey Starikovskiy, (Thu Jul 17, 7:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Thu Jul 17, 9:02 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu Jul 17, 9:26 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Thu Jul 17, 9:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alexey Starikovskiy, (Thu Jul 17, 9:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu Jul 17, 11:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Thu Jul 17, 11:55 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alexey Starikovskiy, (Thu Jul 17, 11:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Thu Jul 17, 12:07 pm)
[PATCH 0/3] acpi: GPE fixes, Alan Jenkins, (Sat Jul 19, 4:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] acpi: GPE fixes, Vegard Nossum, (Sat Jul 19, 7:07 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Andrew Morton, (Tue Aug 12, 4:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Wed Aug 13, 3:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Aug 13, 3:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Wed Aug 13, 4:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Wed Aug 13, 4:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Maximilian Engelhardt, (Wed Aug 13, 6:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or o ..., Alan Jenkins, (Wed Aug 13, 7:39 am)