Thread (53 messages) 53 messages, 5 authors, 2025-06-27

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] Input: Don't send fake button presses to wake system

From: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-06-27 14:14:42
Also in: linux-acpi, linux-gpio, lkml

Hi,

On 27-Jun-25 4:06 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
On 6/26/2025 11:56 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 05:21:35PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
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On 6/26/2025 2:40 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 09:31:12PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM Dmitry Torokhov
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 09:18:56PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM Hans de Goede [off-list ref] wrote:
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Hi,

On 26-Jun-25 21:14, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 08:57:30PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
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Hi,

On 26-Jun-25 20:48, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 01:20:54PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
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I want to note this driver works quite differently than how ACPI power
button does.

You can see in acpi_button_notify() that the "keypress" is only forwarded
when not suspended [1].  Otherwise it's just wakeup event (which is what my
patch was modeling).

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.16-rc3/drivers/acpi/button.c#L461
[1]
If you check acpi_button_resume() you will see that the events are sent
from there. Except that for some reason they chose to use KEY_WAKEUP and
not KEY_POWER, oh well. Unlike acpi button driver gpio_keys is used on
multiple other platforms.
Interesting, but the ACPI button code presumably only does this on resume
for a normal press while the system is awake it does use KEY_POWER, right ?
Yes. It is unclear to me why they chose to mangle the event on wakeup,
it does not seem to be captured in the email discussions or in the patch
description.
I assume they did this to avoid the immediate re-suspend on wakeup by
power-button issue. GNOME has a workaround for this, but I assume that
some userspace desktop environments are still going to have a problem
with this.
It was done for this reason IIRC, but it should have been documented
more thoroughly.
I assert that it should not have been done and instead dealt with in
userspace. There are numerous drivers in the kernel emitting
KEY_POWER. Let userspace decide how to handle this, what keys to ignore,
what keys to process and when.
Please see my last message in this thread (just sent) and see the
changelog of commit 16f70feaabe9 ("ACPI: button: trigger wakeup key
events").

This appears to be about cases when no event would be signaled to user
space at all (power button wakeup from ACPI S3).
Ahh, in S3 we do not know if we've been woken up with Sleep or Power
button, right? So we can not send the "right" event code and use
"neutral" KEY_WAKEUP for both. Is this right?

Thanks.
I did some more experiments with this affected system that started this
thread (which uses s2idle).

I only applied patch 3 in this series to help the debounce behavior and
figure out impacts from patch 4 with existing Linux userspace.

If suspended using systemd in GNOME (click the GUI button) on Ubuntu 24.04
the GNOME workaround mitigates this problem and no visible impact.

If I suspend by hand using the kernel interface and then press power button
to wake:

# echo mem | sudo tee /sys/power/state:

* When GNOME is running:
I get the shutdown popup and it eventually shuts down.

* When GNOME isn't running (just on a VT):
System shuts down.
For the latter you may want to raise an issue with systemd, and for the
former I guess it is being too clever and does not activate the
workaround if suspend was not initiated by it? I think Gnome is being
too careful.

Thanks.
Sure I could file bugs with both the projects.

But before I do if all userspace needs to account for this with a series of workarounds at resume time, you still think that is that really the best way forward?

Hans, you have a lot of experience in the GNOME community.  Your thoughts?
I guess it would be good to fix this in the kernel, sending
KEY_WAKEUP from gpio_key when the event is KEY_POWER and
we are going through the special wakeup path in gpio_keys.

When this was discussed quite a while ago the ACPI button
driver simply did not send any event at all on wkaeup
by ACPI power-button. Know that it does send an event
it would be good to mimic this, at least when the gpio_key
devices where instantiated by soc_button_array.

So maybe add a new field to struct gpio_keys_button
called wakeup_code and when that is not 0 use that
instead of the plain "code" member on wakeups ?

That would keep the gpio_keys code generic while
allowing to mimic the ACPI button behavior.

And then set wakeup_code to KEY_WAKEUP for
the power-button in soc_button_array.

To me this sounds better then trying to fix all userspace
code which does something on KEY_POWER of which there
is quite a lot.

The special GNOME power-button handling was always
a workaround because last time a kernel fix was
nacked. But now with the KEY_WAKEUP done by the ACPI
button code it looks like we do have a good way
to fix this in the kernel, so that would be better
IMHO.

Dmitry, what do you think of adding a wakeup_code
field to struct gpio_keys_button and let the code
creating the gpio_keys_button decide if a different
code should be used on wakeup or not ?

Regards,

Hans


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