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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-12 17:44:53 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-12 17:44:53 -0700
commitaa11d958d1a6572eda08214d7c6a735804fe48a5 (patch)
treed025b05270ad1e010660d17eeadc6ac3c1abbd7d /drivers/acpi/osl.c
parent07f6642ee9418e962e54cbc07471cfe2e559c568 (diff)
parent9799218ae36910af50f002a5db1802d576fffb43 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/osl.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/osl.c25
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
index 71670719d61..5691f165a95 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
@@ -189,11 +189,36 @@ acpi_status __init acpi_os_initialize(void)
return AE_OK;
}
+static void bind_to_cpu0(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ set_cpus_allowed(current, cpumask_of_cpu(0));
+ kfree(work);
+}
+
+static void bind_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
+{
+ struct work_struct *work;
+
+ work = kzalloc(sizeof(struct work_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
+ INIT_WORK(work, bind_to_cpu0);
+ queue_work(wq, work);
+}
+
acpi_status acpi_os_initialize1(void)
{
+ /*
+ * On some machines, a software-initiated SMI causes corruption unless
+ * the SMI runs on CPU 0. An SMI can be initiated by any AML, but
+ * typically it's done in GPE-related methods that are run via
+ * workqueues, so we can avoid the known corruption cases by binding
+ * the workqueues to CPU 0.
+ */
kacpid_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kacpid");
+ bind_workqueue(kacpid_wq);
kacpi_notify_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kacpi_notify");
+ bind_workqueue(kacpi_notify_wq);
kacpi_hotplug_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kacpi_hotplug");
+ bind_workqueue(kacpi_hotplug_wq);
BUG_ON(!kacpid_wq);
BUG_ON(!kacpi_notify_wq);
BUG_ON(!kacpi_hotplug_wq);