From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Notice that it is not necessary to queue up the event work again if the while () loop in acpi_ec_event_handler() is still running which is the case if nr_pending_queries is greater than 0 at the beginning of acpi_ec_submit_event() and modify the code to avoid doing that. While at it, rename nr_pending_queries in struct acpi_ec to events_to_process which actually matches the role of that field and change its data type to unsigned int which is sufficient. No expected functional impact. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- drivers/acpi/internal.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/internal.h =================================================================== --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/internal.h +++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/internal.h @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ struct acpi_ec { spinlock_t lock; struct work_struct work; unsigned long timestamp; - unsigned long nr_pending_queries; + unsigned int events_to_process; unsigned int events_in_progress; unsigned int queries_in_progress; bool busy_polling; Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/ec.c =================================================================== --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/ec.c +++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -453,7 +453,16 @@ static bool acpi_ec_submit_event(struct if (!test_and_set_bit(EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING, &ec->flags)) { ec_dbg_evt("Command(%s) submitted/blocked", acpi_ec_cmd_string(ACPI_EC_COMMAND_QUERY)); - ec->nr_pending_queries++; + /* + * If events_to_process is greqter than 0 at this point, the + * while () loop in acpi_ec_event_handler() is still running + * and incrementing events_to_process will cause it to invoke + * acpi_ec_submit_query() once more, so it is not necessary to + * queue up the event work to start the same loop again. + */ + if (ec->events_to_process++ > 0) + return true; + ec->events_in_progress++; return queue_work(ec_wq, &ec->work); } @@ -665,7 +674,7 @@ static bool advance_transaction(struct a */ if (!t || !(t->flags & ACPI_EC_COMMAND_POLL)) { if (ec_event_clearing == ACPI_EC_EVT_TIMING_EVENT && - (!ec->nr_pending_queries || + (!ec->events_to_process || test_bit(EC_FLAGS_QUERY_GUARDING, &ec->flags))) { clear_bit(EC_FLAGS_QUERY_GUARDING, &ec->flags); acpi_ec_close_event(ec); @@ -1223,13 +1232,13 @@ static void acpi_ec_event_handler(struct spin_lock_irq(&ec->lock); - while (ec->nr_pending_queries) { + while (ec->events_to_process) { spin_unlock_irq(&ec->lock); acpi_ec_submit_query(ec); spin_lock_irq(&ec->lock); - ec->nr_pending_queries--; + ec->events_to_process--; } /*