diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c index 4c8dea513b6..c59dc234059 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c @@ -45,11 +45,27 @@ #include "accommon.h" #include "acevents.h" #include "acnamesp.h" -#include "acinterp.h" #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS ACPI_MODULE_NAME("evgpeinit") +/* + * Note: History of _PRW support in ACPICA + * + * Originally (2000 - 2010), the GPE initialization code performed a walk of + * the entire namespace to execute the _PRW methods and detect all GPEs + * capable of waking the system. + * + * As of 10/2010, the _PRW method execution has been removed since it is + * actually unnecessary. The host OS must in fact execute all _PRW methods + * in order to identify the device/power-resource dependencies. We now put + * the onus on the host OS to identify the wake GPEs as part of this process + * and to inform ACPICA of these GPEs via the acpi_setup_gpe_for_wake interface. This + * not only reduces the complexity of the ACPICA initialization code, but in + * some cases (on systems with very large namespaces) it should reduce the + * kernel boot time as well. + */ + /******************************************************************************* * * FUNCTION: acpi_ev_gpe_initialize @@ -222,7 +238,7 @@ void acpi_ev_update_gpes(acpi_owner_id table_owner_id) acpi_status status = AE_OK; /* - * 2) Find any _Lxx/_Exx GPE methods that have just been loaded. + * Find any _Lxx/_Exx GPE methods that have just been loaded. * * Any GPEs that correspond to new _Lxx/_Exx methods are immediately * enabled. @@ -235,9 +251,9 @@ void acpi_ev_update_gpes(acpi_owner_id table_owner_id) return; } + walk_info.count = 0; walk_info.owner_id = table_owner_id; walk_info.execute_by_owner_id = TRUE; - walk_info.count = 0; /* Walk the interrupt level descriptor list */ @@ -298,7 +314,7 @@ void acpi_ev_update_gpes(acpi_owner_id table_owner_id) * xx - is the GPE number [in HEX] * * If walk_info->execute_by_owner_id is TRUE, we only execute examine GPE methods - * with that owner. + * with that owner. * ******************************************************************************/ @@ -415,6 +431,7 @@ acpi_ev_match_gpe_method(acpi_handle obj_handle, * Add the GPE information from above to the gpe_event_info block for * use during dispatch of this GPE. */ + gpe_event_info->flags &= ~(ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_MASK); gpe_event_info->flags |= (u8)(type | ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_METHOD); gpe_event_info->dispatch.method_node = method_node; |