[PATCH 1/1] ACPI: EC: Allow multibyte access to EC (v3)

[Stefan Bader]

Just as a formality: I would make that a SAUCE patch as upstream has this in two
patches which also are different in the fact that the loop might exit
prematurely for them.

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Allow more than a single byte to be read or written to the EC.  This is
> needed by some Dell BIOSs.  Do not allow access to exceed 64 bits as the
> underlying algorith assumes it can do single aligned accesses of this size.
> 
> Based on the original version by Alexey Starikovskiy.
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526354
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/acpi/ec.c            |    7 ++-----
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c
> index 52fec07..9db351e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c
> @@ -468,6 +468,23 @@ acpi_status acpi_ex_prep_field_value(struct acpi_create_field_info *info)
>  
>  		acpi_ut_add_reference(obj_desc->field.region_obj);
>  
> +		/* allow full data read from EC address space */
> +		if (obj_desc->field.region_obj->region.space_id ==
> +			ACPI_ADR_SPACE_EC) {
> +			if (obj_desc->common_field.bit_length > 8) {
> +				int access_bit_width = ACPI_ROUND_UP(
> +					obj_desc->common_field.bit_length, 8);
> +				if (access_bit_width > sizeof(acpi_integer) * 8)
> +					access_bit_width =
> +						sizeof(acpi_integer) * 8;
> +				obj_desc->common_field.access_bit_width =
> +					 access_bit_width;
> +				obj_desc->common_field.access_byte_width =
> +					ACPI_DIV_8(access_bit_width);
> +			}
> +
> +		}
> +
>  		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_BFIELD,
>  				  "RegionField: BitOff %X, Off %X, Gran %X, Region %p\n",
>  				  obj_desc->field.start_field_bit_offset,
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> index f1670e0..b654a96 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> @@ -601,10 +601,7 @@ acpi_ec_space_handler(u32 function, acpi_physical_address address,
>  	if (function != ACPI_READ && function != ACPI_WRITE)
>  		return AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
>  
> -	if (bits != 8 && acpi_strict)
> -		return AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
> -
> -	if (EC_FLAGS_MSI)
> +	if (EC_FLAGS_MSI || bits > 8)
>  		acpi_ec_burst_enable(ec);
>  
>  	if (function == ACPI_READ) {
> @@ -626,7 +623,7 @@ acpi_ec_space_handler(u32 function, acpi_physical_address address,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	if (EC_FLAGS_MSI)
> +	if (EC_FLAGS_MSI || bits > 8)
>  		acpi_ec_burst_disable(ec);
>  
>  	switch (result) {