From: Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx> ACPI ECs (Embedded Controllers) are allowed to use the ACPI global lock in legacy mode. Since there is no global lock in hardware reduced mode, make sure that ECs cannot inadvertently use it with older ACPI tables that may have defined an _GLK method for the EC device. Since an individual lock can and should be defined for each EC, access to each EC should still be properly controlled. Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c index ba5b56d..3f15110 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -745,9 +745,17 @@ ec_parse_device(acpi_handle handle, u32 Level, void *context, void **retval) if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) return status; ec->gpe = tmp; - /* Use the global lock for all EC transactions? */ + /* + * Use the global lock for all EC transactions? + * + * If ACPI is in hardware reduced mode, there is no global lock. + * If a _GLK method is defined, it needs to be ignored, just + * in case it returns "true", which could happen if the ASL is + * written incorrectly. + */ tmp = 0; - acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_GLK", NULL, &tmp); + if (!acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware) + acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_GLK", NULL, &tmp); ec->global_lock = tmp; ec->handle = handle; return AE_CTRL_TERMINATE; -- 1.8.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
