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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATH 1/5 -v2] acpi, IO memory pre-mapping and atomic accessing
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:11:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091218181144.GB1470@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260429413.15264.393.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>

Hi!

> Some ACPI IO accessing need to be done in atomic context. For example,

Does it? Maybe better fix would be to make sure acpi interpretter
can't be ran from interrupt context -- just create threads for it...?

It would solve a lot of uglyness with acpi trying to guess if it can
sleep etc...
								Pavel

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-18 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-10  7:16 [PATH 1/5 -v2] acpi, IO memory pre-mapping and atomic accessing Huang Ying
2009-12-11 17:36 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-12-15  1:04   ` Huang Ying
2009-12-15 17:47     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-12-16  1:23       ` Huang Ying
2009-12-16 17:54         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-12-17  8:33           ` Huang Ying
2009-12-17 17:06             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-12-18 13:42         ` Thomas Renninger
2009-12-16  5:38 ` Len Brown
2009-12-16  5:40   ` Huang Ying
2009-12-18 18:11 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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