ACPICA: Add mechanism to defer _REG methods for some installed handlers

The memory/io/pci/dataTable regions must always be available. For
any user installed handlers for these spaces, defer execution
of _REG methods until acpi_enable_subsystem. This prevents any
chicken/egg problems and ensures that no methods are executed
until all of these regions are ready and available.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
index 82a1bd283db8..d69750b83b36 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
@@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ ACPI_EXTERN u32 acpi_gbl_owner_id_mask[ACPI_NUM_OWNERID_MASKS];
 ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_last_owner_id_index;
 ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_next_owner_id_offset;
 
+/* Initialization sequencing */
+
+ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_reg_methods_executed;
+
 /* Misc */
 
 ACPI_EXTERN u32 acpi_gbl_original_mode;