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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] ACPI/IPMI: Add reference counting for ACPI operation region handlers
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:29:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2501577.sf07PMEtR1@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9d5acba01eb80580e7696c50db4263ded86a86c.1374566394.git.lv.zheng@intel.com>

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 04:09:43 PM Lv Zheng wrote:
> This patch adds reference couting for ACPI operation region handlers to fix
> races caused by the ACPICA address space callback invocations.
> 
> ACPICA address space callback invocation is not suitable for Linux
> CONFIG_MODULE=y execution environment.

Actually, can you please explain to me what *exactly* the problem is?

Rafael


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-25 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1370652213.git.lv.zheng@intel.com>
2013-07-23  8:08 ` [PATCH 00/13] ACPI/IPMI: Fix several issues in the current codes Lv Zheng
2013-07-23  8:08   ` [PATCH 01/13] ACPI/IPMI: Fix potential response buffer overflow Lv Zheng
2013-07-23 14:54     ` Greg KH
2013-07-24  0:21       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-24  0:44       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-23  8:09   ` [PATCH 02/13] ACPI/IPMI: Fix atomic context requirement of ipmi_msg_handler() Lv Zheng
2013-07-23  8:09   ` [PATCH 03/13] ACPI/IPMI: Fix race caused by the unprotected ACPI IPMI transfers Lv Zheng
2013-07-24 23:38     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-25  3:09       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-25 12:06         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-25 18:12           ` Corey Minyard
2013-07-25 19:32             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-26  0:18               ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26  0:16             ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26  0:48               ` Corey Minyard
2013-07-26  1:30                 ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26  0:09           ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-23  8:09   ` [PATCH 04/13] ACPI/IPMI: Fix race caused by the unprotected ACPI IPMI user Lv Zheng
2013-07-25 21:59     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-26  1:17       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-23  8:09   ` [PATCH 05/13] ACPI/IPMI: Fix issue caused by the per-device registration of the IPMI operation region handler Lv Zheng
2013-07-23  8:09   ` [PATCH 06/13] ACPI/IPMI: Add reference counting for ACPI operation region handlers Lv Zheng
2013-07-25 20:27     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-26  0:47       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26  8:09         ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26 14:00         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29  1:43           ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-25 21:29     ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2013-07-26  1:54       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26  8:15         ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26 14:49         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29  1:56           ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-23  8:09   ` [PATCH 07/13] ACPI/IPMI: Add reference counting for ACPI IPMI transfers Lv Zheng
2013-07-25 22:23     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-26  1:21       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26 13:41         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-23  8:10   ` [PATCH 08/13] ACPI/IPMI: Cleanup several acpi_ipmi_device members Lv Zheng
2013-07-25 22:25     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-26  1:25       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-26 13:38         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29  1:12           ` Zheng, Lv
2013-07-23  8:10   ` [PATCH 09/13] ACPI/IPMI: Cleanup some initialization codes Lv Zheng
2013-07-23  8:10   ` [PATCH 10/13] ACPI/IPMI: Cleanup some inclusion codes Lv Zheng
2013-07-23  8:10   ` [PATCH 11/13] ACPI/IPMI: Cleanup some Kconfig codes Lv Zheng
2013-07-23  8:10   ` [PATCH 12/13] Testing: Add module load/unload test suite Lv Zheng
2013-07-23  8:10   ` [PATCH 13/13] ACPI/IPMI: Add IPMI operation region test device driver Lv Zheng

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