ACPICA: Remove global option to serialize all control methods.

According to the reports, the "acpi_serialize" mechanism is broken as:

 A. The parallel method calls can still happen when the interpreter lock is
    released under the following conditions:
    1. External callbacks are invoked, for example, by the region handlers,
       the exception handlers, etc.;
    2. Module level execution is performed when Load/LoadTable opcodes are
       executed, and
    3. The _REG control methods are invoked to complete the region
       registrations.
 B. For the following situations, the interpreter lock need to be released
    even for a serialized method while currently, the lock-releasing
    operation is marked as a no-op by
    acpi_ex_relinquish/reacquire_interpreter() when this mechanism is
    enabled:
    1. Wait opcode is executed,
    2. Acquire opcode is executed, and
    3. Sleep opcode is executed.

This patch removes this mechanism and the internal
acpi_ex_relinquish/reacquire_interpreter() APIs.  Lv Zheng.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52191
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
index 0d7b714..b7af3b7 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
@@ -1539,18 +1539,6 @@ static int __init osi_setup(char *str)
 
 __setup("acpi_osi=", osi_setup);
 
-/* enable serialization to combat AE_ALREADY_EXISTS errors */
-static int __init acpi_serialize_setup(char *str)
-{
-	printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "serialize enabled\n");
-
-	acpi_gbl_all_methods_serialized = TRUE;
-
-	return 1;
-}
-
-__setup("acpi_serialize", acpi_serialize_setup);
-
 /* Check of resource interference between native drivers and ACPI
  * OperationRegions (SystemIO and System Memory only).
  * IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be used by the ACPI subsystem