[ACPI] Avoid BIOS inflicted crashes by evaluating _PDC only once

Linux invokes the AML _PDC method (Processor Driver Capabilities)
to tell the BIOS what features it can handle.  While the ACPI
spec says nothing about the OS invoking _PDC multiple times,
doing so with changing bits seems to hopelessly confuse the BIOS
on multiple platforms up to and including crashing the system.

Factor out the _PDC invocation so Linux invokes it only once.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5483

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
index 22c7bb66c200..532370734c68 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
@@ -315,8 +315,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_performance_info(struct acpi_processor *pr)
         if (!pr || !pr->performance || !pr->handle)
                 return_VALUE(-EINVAL);
 
-        acpi_processor_set_pdc(pr, pr->performance->pdc);
-
         status = acpi_get_handle(pr->handle, "_PCT", &handle);
         if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
                 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO,