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Rapid cycling of power profiles via the ROG hotkey (Fn+F3 or Fn+F5 in my case) triggers a burst of inotify events on /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile. Previously, asusd immediately processed every single intermediate event by writing all 3 fan-curve tables (CPU, GPU, MID), EPP policies, and PPT power limits directly over the ACPI/WMI channel.

Because Embedded Controller (EC) communication is serialized in the kernel under the ACPI Global Lock / AML interpreter mutex, flooding the EC with heavy multi-register writes while simultaneous hotkey ACPI interrupts arrive causes the kernel AML interpreter to hang indefinitely on semaphore acquisition (acpi_os_wait_semaphore -> down_timeout). This leads to a remote CPU watchdog timeout and a complete hard system freeze.

Key Changes

  • Introduced a 500ms trailing debounce on the platform profile inotify stream via a modular, generic process_debounced_stream helper using tokio::select! with biased; and std::pin::pin!.
  • Successive hotkey events reset the debounce timer without performing any EC/WMI hardware I/O.
  • Once the stream settles for 500ms, the final selected profile is applied to hardware in a single atomic batch, and logged at info! level.
  • Added comprehensive unit tests in ctrl_platform::tests covering burst coalescing and spaced event execution.

Fixes #328

Tested Hardware & Environment

  • ASUS Laptop Model: ROG Strix G16 G614PR
  • Linux Distribution: CachyOS Linux
  • Kernel Version: 7.2.0-1-cachyos-eevdf

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  • I have performed a self-review of my code
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  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
  • My code follows the style guidelines of this project (cargo fmt --all -- --check)
  • My changes generate no new warnings (cargo clippy --all -- -D warnings/cargo check --all-targets)
  • New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes (cargo test --all)
  • Cranky with 0 warning (cargo cranky)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Platform profile changes are now applied after activity settles, preventing repeated updates during rapid bursts of events.
    • Added a 500 ms trailing delay to consolidate closely spaced profile-change events.
  • Reliability
    • Improved consistency when switching profiles during frequent platform activity.
    • Pending profile updates are now applied when platform activity monitoring ends.

Walkthrough

Platform-profile watcher events now use a 500 ms trailing debounce. Profile-dependent hardware updates run after the event stream becomes quiet. Pending updates are applied when the stream terminates.

Changes

Platform Profile Debounce

Layer / File(s) Summary
Platform-profile watcher integration
asusd/src/ctrl_platform.rs
The watcher resets a 500 ms timer for each event. After the quiet period, it reads the current profile and applies profile-dependent updates. Stream termination flushes pending work. The change adds settled-profile logging and preserves the power-status fallback while logging errors through inspect_err.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e59a2

The change debounces rapid profile updates before applying hardware settings, but an inotify read error could still be interpreted as a profile change and trigger an unnecessary hardware update. This is a bounded mergeable risk that should be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Suggested labels: asusd, rog-profiles, fix

Suggested reviewers: neroreflex, ghoul4500, luytan

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the asusd fix and its purpose: debouncing platform-profile events to prevent EC lockups.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, implementation, testing environment, verification, and linked issue in the required template.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #328 by coalescing rapid profile events and applying only the final profile to reduce EC transaction flooding.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to platform-profile event handling and related tests, which directly support issue #328.

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- Around line 1119-1121: Update the debounced stream handling around the EOF
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1108-1108: 🩺 Stability & Availability

Keep the Duration::MAX dormant timer.

Tokio 1.53.1 handles overflow with checked_add and uses Instant::far_future() when necessary, so this initialization does not panic.

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In `@asusd/src/ctrl_platform.rs`:
- Around line 1065-1074: Update the logging in the watch_platform_profile
handling around get_platform_profile so the settled profile value is emitted at
info! level after profile is successfully read, identifying the final applied
profile; do not retain the current debug-only change notification as the primary
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1051-1060: Flush the pending profile update before EOF.

When stream.next() returns None while pending is true, Line 1059 exits before the timer branch runs. The final profile then misses the EPP, signal, fan-curve, PPT, and Armoury-limit update. Keep the pending timer active after EOF, apply the settled update, and then exit.

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In `@asusd/src/ctrl_platform.rs`:
- Around line 1051-1060: Update the stream-exit handling around the event loop
so EOF does not immediately break while pending is true: keep the debounce timer
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through the existing update path, then exit the task. Preserve immediate exit
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Isn't this freeze a kernel bug? 500ms may be somewhat of a notable response delay for UI to update as well (among other things). Please discuss things like this with us before sending off a PR

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- Around line 1081-1088: Update the event handling around stream.next() to match
Some(Ok(_)) before setting pending and resetting debounce_timer. Handle
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1039-1080: LGTM!

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Isn't this freeze a kernel bug? 500ms may be somewhat of a notable response delay for UI to update as well (among other things). Please discuss things like this with us before sending off a PR

It's both asusd and kernel bug. The good way to fix it would be to work on both sides but actually what I really want is for the user to stops to spam buttons, wait for 0.5 secs and then send the last decided value

Rapid cycling of power profiles via the ROG hotkey (Fn+F3) causes
a flood of inotify events on /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile.
Previously, asusd processed each event immediately by writing all
fan-curve tables, EPP policies, and PPT power limits over the ACPI/WMI
channel.

Under rapid keypresses, this heavy I/O flooded the Embedded Controller
(EC) and conflicted with concurrent hotkey ACPI interrupts, causing
the kernel AML interpreter to hang on ACPI semaphore acquisition
(acpi_os_wait_semaphore down_timeout) and resulting in a hard system freeze
with a remote CPU watchdog timeout (Issue OpenGamingCollective#328).

Introduce an inline 500ms trailing debounce timer on the platform profile
inotify stream loop using tokio::select! and a pinned sleep timer.
Successive events reset the timer, ensuring heavy hardware I/O and EC writes
occur exactly once for the final settled profile. If the inotify event stream
closes while an update is pending, drain the remaining debounce period and apply
the settled profile before exiting.
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Moving the fix directly into kernel

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