ACPI: Add acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr option to force 32 bit FADT addresses

Some HP laptops seem to have invalid 64 bit FADT X_PM* addresses
which are causing various boot issues.  In these cases, it would
be useful to force ACPI to use the valid legacy 32 bit equivalent
PM addresses.  Add a acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr to set the ACPICA
acpi_gbl_use32_bit_fadt_addresses to TRUE to force this override.

Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1529381
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9a53c929f017d16527270bc2244352edf1d34cd8..64b5431904c30d3b8b1e64504ba7f2a1aea8b877 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
                        of the ACPI video.ko driver.
 
+       acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
+                       force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
+                       64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
+                       bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
+                       the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
+
        acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
                        Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
                        This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
index 6c0f0794aa82bd007a14effaa21494043e3eb8e1..ebdf5643cd8e36e04b55392ebe9bb409db95bf1c 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
@@ -484,3 +484,13 @@ static int __init acpi_force_table_verification_setup(char *s)
 }
 
 early_param("acpi_force_table_verification", acpi_force_table_verification_setup);
+
+static int __init acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr(char *s)
+{
+       pr_info("Forcing 32 Bit FADT addresses\n");
+       acpi_gbl_use32_bit_fadt_addresses = TRUE;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr", acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr);