Re: [PATCH 0/3] ACPI: Serialize battery methods and INT3403 _TMP

From: Hans de Goede

Date: Wed Oct 14 2026 - 11:38:15 EST


Hi,

On 14-Oct-26 17:05, Ali Ahmet Memiş wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 03:45:10PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hmm, I wonder if we should export the lock added in patch 1/3 and
>> then also take that in the ACPI EC interrupt handler ?
>>
>> The ACPI code already uses a threaded IRQ handler for both EC GPIO
>> IRQs and GPEs so sleeping in the handler should be ok.
>
> Sleeping is fine, but the interrupt handler completes the EC
> transactions, so taking the lock there would deadlock an exclusive
> _BST. Doing it in acpi_ec_event_processor() where the _Qxx methods
> are evaluated, works though.

Ack, doing it there sounds good to me.

> With the brightness key queries also
> running the \GTST copy, 283 of 891 _BST reads were broken without it
> and 0 of 804 with it.

Nice :)
>> I'm just thinking that if we're going to do this it would be nice to
>> cover the bko221065 UCSI case too.
>
> UCSI and _Qxx alone aren't enough there. I emulated the ECMT users
> from the 83DR tables and the EC helpers kept waiting up to ~680 ms of
> their 1 s timeout behind GBMD/SBMC until the ideapad methods were
> exclusive too.
>
>> Note this is something which can be done on top of this set.
>
> I can send a series on top of this one for the EC queries, UCSI and
> ideapad if that sounds good.

That sounds great, thank you so much for looking into this.

We should probably ask the reporters of bko221065 to test
the 2 series combined and see if this finally closes that issue
for real.

Regards,

Hans