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authorAlexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>2007-03-07 18:29:35 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2007-03-09 23:16:23 -0500
commit9e197219605513c14d3eae41039ecf1b82d1920d (patch)
tree143f16569165e172efd12d938003a48f61c7de62 /drivers/acpi/system.c
parent08e15e81a40e3241ce93b4a43886f3abda184aa6 (diff)
ACPI: ec: fix race in status register access
Delay the read of the EC status register until after the event that caused it occurs -- otherwise it is possible to read and act on stale status that was associated with the previous event. Do this with a perpetually incrementing "event_count" to detect when a new event occurs and it is safe to read status. There is no workaround for polling mode -- it is inherently exposed to reading and acting on stale status, since it doesn't have an interrupt to tell it the event completed. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8110 Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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