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Commit 9a1a6259 authored by Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar Rafael J. Wysocki Committed by Darren Hart (VMware)
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platform/x86: wmi: Call acpi_wmi_init() later

Calling acpi_wmi_init() at the subsys_initcall() level causes ordering
issues to appear on some systems and they are difficult to reproduce,
because there is no guaranteed ordering between subsys_initcall()
calls, so they may occur in different orders on different systems.

In particular, commit 86d9f485

 (mm/slab: fix kmemcg cache
creation delayed issue) exposed one of these issues where genl_init()
and acpi_wmi_init() are both called at the same initcall level, but
the former must run before the latter so as to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference.

For this reason, move the acpi_wmi_init() invocation to the
initcall_sync level which should still be early enough for things
to work correctly in the WMI land.

Link: https://marc.info/?t=151274596700002&r=1&w=2
Reported-by: default avatarJonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Reported-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
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