>We added the spinlock support for the GPE data structures for this >reason, that the GPE data needed to be locked at interrupt level. > >If it's correct to do this with the hardware lock, then we should do >this as well
Agreed, that is the problem at hand. And this suggests that the other locks in ACPICA should be examined to confirm that they really need a lock that can sleep, or see if a simple spin-lock is appropriate for any of them too. > -- then cleanup the Linux OSL semaphore implementation, >starting with the check for interrupt level. I think the cleanup here may involve not using the OSL semaphore implementation for anything other than supporting AML Acquire(), as the other locks in ACPICA should not need any wrapper to invoke a simple mutex. I think this is consistent with the quest to reduce the need for osl.c. -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
