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Commit 2f38b1b1 authored by Lv Zheng's avatar Lv Zheng Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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ACPICA: Namespace: Fix deadlock triggered by MLC support in dynamic table loading

The new module-level code (MLC) approach invokes MLC on the per-table
basis, but the dynamic loading support of this is incorrect because
of the lock order:

 acpi_ns_evaluate
   acpi_ex_enter_intperter
     acpi_ns_load_table (triggered by Load opcode)
       acpi_ns_exec_module_code_list
         acpi_ex_enter_intperter

The regression is introduced by the following commit:

  Commit: 2785ce8d
  ACPICA Commit: 071eff738c59eda1792ac24b3b688b61691d7e7c
  Subject: ACPICA: Add per-table execution of module-level code

This patch fixes this regression by unlocking the interpreter lock
before invoking MLC.  However, the unlocking is done to the
acpi_ns_load_table(), in which the interpreter lock should be locked
by acpi_ns_parse_table() but it wasn't.

Fixes: 2785ce8d

 (ACPICA: Add per-table execution of module-level code)
Reported-by: default avatarMika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: 4.5+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.5+
[ rjw : Subject ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent da4e7925
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