ACPI: Remove deferred execution from global lock acquire wakeup path

On acquiring the ACPI global lock, if there were sleepers on the lock,
we used to use acpi_os_execute() to defer a thread which would signal
sleepers.  Now just signal the semaphore directly.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534#c159

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/events/evmisc.c b/drivers/acpi/events/evmisc.c
index 6eef4efddcf6..ee2a10bf9077 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/events/evmisc.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/events/evmisc.c
@@ -342,20 +342,8 @@ static u32 acpi_ev_global_lock_handler(void *context)
         if (acquired) {
 
                 /* Got the lock, now wake all threads waiting for it */
-
                 acpi_gbl_global_lock_acquired = TRUE;
-
-                /* Run the Global Lock thread which will signal all waiting threads */
-
-                status =
-                    acpi_os_execute(OSL_GLOBAL_LOCK_HANDLER,
-                                    acpi_ev_global_lock_thread, context);
-                if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
-                        ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status,
-                                        "Could not queue Global Lock thread"));
-
-                        return (ACPI_INTERRUPT_NOT_HANDLED);
-                }
+                acpi_ev_global_lock_thread(context);
         }
 
         return (ACPI_INTERRUPT_HANDLED);