On 08/22/2014 07:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, August 22, 2014 03:37:55 PM Lan Tianyu wrote: >> Currently fixed button devices' notify callbacks are running in the >> interrupt context. It's not necessary and prevent calling functions >> with mutex lock(E,G evaluating ACPI method). Otherwise, it's different >> with non-fixed button device whose notify callback is running in the process >> context. This patch is to make fixed button device's notify >> callback in the process context and this also can avoid dead lock >> when using netlink to report button event to user space. > > I guess this is the main reason for the patch? > > Is there a bug report regarding this? >
There is: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/21/606 > >> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu....@intel.com> >> --- >> drivers/acpi/scan.c | 9 +++++++-- >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c >> index 0a817ad..bfb7fc5 100644 >> --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c >> +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c >> @@ -922,12 +922,17 @@ static void acpi_device_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 >> event, void *data) >> device->driver->ops.notify(device, event); >> } >> >> -static acpi_status acpi_device_notify_fixed(void *data) >> +static void acpi_device_notify_fixed_run(void *data) >> { >> struct acpi_device *device = data; >> >> - /* Fixed hardware devices have no handles */ >> acpi_device_notify(NULL, ACPI_FIXED_HARDWARE_EVENT, device); >> +} >> + >> +static acpi_status acpi_device_notify_fixed(void *data) >> +{ >> + /* Fixed hardware devices have no handles */ >> + acpi_os_execute(OSL_NOTIFY_HANDLER, acpi_device_notify_fixed_run, data); >> return AE_OK; >> } >> >> >
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