Commit 6af8bef1 authored by Prarit Bhargava's avatar Prarit Bhargava Committed by Jesse Barnes
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PCI hotplug: acpiphp: Prevent deadlock on PCI-to-PCI bridge remove

I originally submitted a patch to workaround this by pushing all Ejection
Requests and Device Checks onto the kacpi_hotplug queue.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=131678270930105&w=2

The patch is still insufficient in that Bus Checks also need to be added.

Rather than add all events, including non-PCI-hotplug events, to the
hotplug queue, mjg suggested that a better approach would be to modify
the acpiphp driver so only acpiphp events would be added to the
kacpi_hotplug queue.

It's a longer patch, but at least we maintain the benefit of having separate
queues in ACPI.  This, of course, is still only a workaround the problem.
As Bjorn and mjg pointed out, we have to refactor a lot of this code to do
the right thing but at this point it is a better to have this code working.

The acpi core places all events on the kacpi_notify queue.  When the acpiphp
driver is loaded and a PCI card with a PCI-to-PCI bridge is removed the
following call...
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