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<entry>
<title>ACPI / dock: Make 'docked' sysfs attribute work as documented</title>
<updated>2014-02-15T00:29:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-15T00:29:06+00:00</published>
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After recent ACPI core changes acpi_bus_get_device() will always
succeed for dock station ACPI device objects, so show_docked()
should not use that function's return value as an indicator of
whether or not the dock device is present.

Make it use acpi_device_enumerated() for this purpose.

Fixes: 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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After recent ACPI core changes acpi_bus_get_device() will always
succeed for dock station ACPI device objects, so show_docked()
should not use that function's return value as an indicator of
whether or not the dock device is present.

Make it use acpi_device_enumerated() for this purpose.

Fixes: 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / dock: Use acpi_device_enumerated() to check if dock is present</title>
<updated>2014-02-10T12:44:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-10T12:44:20+00:00</published>
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After commit 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for
all device nodes in the namespace) acpi_bus_get_device() will always
return 0 for dock devices in dock_notify(), so the dock station
docking code under ACPI_NOTIFY_DEVICE_CHECK will never be executed
and docking will not work as a result of that.

Fix the problem by making dock_notify() use acpi_device_enumerated()
to check the presence of the device instead of checking the return
value of acpi_bus_get_device().

Fixes: 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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After commit 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for
all device nodes in the namespace) acpi_bus_get_device() will always
return 0 for dock devices in dock_notify(), so the dock station
docking code under ACPI_NOTIFY_DEVICE_CHECK will never be executed
and docking will not work as a result of that.

Fix the problem by making dock_notify() use acpi_device_enumerated()
to check the presence of the device instead of checking the return
value of acpi_bus_get_device().

Fixes: 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpi-hotplug'</title>
<updated>2014-01-12T22:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-12T22:45:04+00:00</published>
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* acpi-hotplug:
  ACPI / scan: ACPI device object sysfs attribute for _STA evaluation
  ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way
  ACPI / hotplug: Add demand_offline hotplug profile flag
  ACPI / bind: Move acpi_get_child() to drivers/ide/ide-acpi.c
  ACPI / bind: Pass struct acpi_device pointer to acpi_bind_one()
  ACPI / bind: Rework struct acpi_bus_type
  ACPI / bind: Redefine acpi_preset_companion()
  ACPI / bind: Redefine acpi_get_child()
  PCI / ACPI: Use acpi_find_child_device() for child devices lookup
  ACPI / bind: Simplify child device lookups
  ACPI / scan: Use direct recurrence for device hierarchy walks
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_set_device_status()
  ACPI / hotplug: Drop unfinished global notification handling routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Rework generic code to handle suprise removals
  ACPI / hotplug: Move container-specific code out of the core
  ACPI / hotplug: Make ACPI PCI root hotplug use common hotplug code
  ACPI / hotplug: Introduce common hotplug function acpi_device_hotplug()
  ACPI / hotplug: Do not fail bus and device checks for disabled hotplug
  ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace
  ACPI / scan: Define non-empty device removal handler
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* acpi-hotplug:
  ACPI / scan: ACPI device object sysfs attribute for _STA evaluation
  ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way
  ACPI / hotplug: Add demand_offline hotplug profile flag
  ACPI / bind: Move acpi_get_child() to drivers/ide/ide-acpi.c
  ACPI / bind: Pass struct acpi_device pointer to acpi_bind_one()
  ACPI / bind: Rework struct acpi_bus_type
  ACPI / bind: Redefine acpi_preset_companion()
  ACPI / bind: Redefine acpi_get_child()
  PCI / ACPI: Use acpi_find_child_device() for child devices lookup
  ACPI / bind: Simplify child device lookups
  ACPI / scan: Use direct recurrence for device hierarchy walks
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_set_device_status()
  ACPI / hotplug: Drop unfinished global notification handling routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Rework generic code to handle suprise removals
  ACPI / hotplug: Move container-specific code out of the core
  ACPI / hotplug: Make ACPI PCI root hotplug use common hotplug code
  ACPI / hotplug: Introduce common hotplug function acpi_device_hotplug()
  ACPI / hotplug: Do not fail bus and device checks for disabled hotplug
  ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace
  ACPI / scan: Define non-empty device removal handler
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / dock: Include appropriate header file in dock.c</title>
<updated>2014-01-05T23:13:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rashika</name>
<email>rashika.kheria@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-17T09:30:04+00:00</published>
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Includes appropriate header file internal.h in dock.c because
function acpi_dock_init() has its prototype declaration in
internal.h.

This eliminates the following warning in dock.c:
drivers/acpi/dock.c:899:13: warning: no previous prototype for ‘acpi_dock_init’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria &lt;rashika.kheria@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Includes appropriate header file internal.h in dock.c because
function acpi_dock_init() has its prototype declaration in
internal.h.

This eliminates the following warning in dock.c:
drivers/acpi/dock.c:899:13: warning: no previous prototype for ‘acpi_dock_init’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria &lt;rashika.kheria@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / dock: Drop redundant acpi_disabled check</title>
<updated>2013-12-07T00:36:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hanjun Guo</name>
<email>hanjun.guo@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-05T16:03:40+00:00</published>
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acpi_dock_init() is only called from acpi_scan_init() and the
code logic shows that it doesn't need to check acpi_disabled:

acpi_init();
	if (acpi_disabled) return;
	acpi_scan_init();
		acpi_dock_init();
			if (acpi_disabled) /* redundant */
				return;

Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
[rjw: Subject and changelog]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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acpi_dock_init() is only called from acpi_scan_init() and the
code logic shows that it doesn't need to check acpi_disabled:

acpi_init();
	if (acpi_disabled) return;
	acpi_scan_init();
		acpi_dock_init();
			if (acpi_disabled) /* redundant */
				return;

Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
[rjw: Subject and changelog]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpi-cleanup' into acpi-hotplug</title>
<updated>2013-12-07T00:05:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-07T00:05:17+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/scan.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/scan.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Clean up inclusions of ACPI header files</title>
<updated>2013-12-07T00:03:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lv Zheng</name>
<email>lv.zheng@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-03T00:49:16+00:00</published>
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Replace direct inclusions of &lt;acpi/acpi.h&gt;, &lt;acpi/acpi_bus.h&gt; and
&lt;acpi/acpi_drivers.h&gt;, which are incorrect, with &lt;linux/acpi.h&gt;
inclusions and remove some inclusions of those files that aren't
necessary.

First of all, &lt;acpi/acpi.h&gt;, &lt;acpi/acpi_bus.h&gt; and &lt;acpi/acpi_drivers.h&gt;
should not be included directly from any files that are built for
CONFIG_ACPI unset, because that generally leads to build warnings about
undefined symbols in !CONFIG_ACPI builds.  For CONFIG_ACPI set,
&lt;linux/acpi.h&gt; includes those files and for CONFIG_ACPI unset it
provides stub ACPI symbols to be used in that case.

Second, there are ordering dependencies between those files that always
have to be met.  Namely, it is required that &lt;acpi/acpi_bus.h&gt; be included
prior to &lt;acpi/acpi_drivers.h&gt; so that the acpi_pci_root declarations the
latter depends on are always there.  And &lt;acpi/acpi.h&gt; which provides
basic ACPICA type declarations should always be included prior to any other
ACPI headers in CONFIG_ACPI builds.  That also is taken care of including
&lt;linux/acpi.h&gt; as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt; (drivers/pci stuff)
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt; (Xen stuff)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Replace direct inclusions of &lt;acpi/acpi.h&gt;, &lt;acpi/acpi_bus.h&gt; and
&lt;acpi/acpi_drivers.h&gt;, which are incorrect, with &lt;linux/acpi.h&gt;
inclusions and remove some inclusions of those files that aren't
necessary.

First of all, &lt;acpi/acpi.h&gt;, &lt;acpi/acpi_bus.h&gt; and &lt;acpi/acpi_drivers.h&gt;
should not be included directly from any files that are built for
CONFIG_ACPI unset, because that generally leads to build warnings about
undefined symbols in !CONFIG_ACPI builds.  For CONFIG_ACPI set,
&lt;linux/acpi.h&gt; includes those files and for CONFIG_ACPI unset it
provides stub ACPI symbols to be used in that case.

Second, there are ordering dependencies between those files that always
have to be met.  Namely, it is required that &lt;acpi/acpi_bus.h&gt; be included
prior to &lt;acpi/acpi_drivers.h&gt; so that the acpi_pci_root declarations the
latter depends on are always there.  And &lt;acpi/acpi.h&gt; which provides
basic ACPICA type declarations should always be included prior to any other
ACPI headers in CONFIG_ACPI builds.  That also is taken care of including
&lt;linux/acpi.h&gt; as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt; (drivers/pci stuff)
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt; (Xen stuff)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T20:54:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T20:54:37+00:00</published>
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Modify the ACPI namespace scanning code to register a struct
acpi_device object for every namespace node representing a device,
processor and so on, even if the device represented by that namespace
node is reported to be not present and not functional by _STA.

There are multiple reasons to do that.  First of all, it avoids
quite a lot of overhead when struct acpi_device objects are
deleted every time acpi_bus_trim() is run and then added again
by a subsequent acpi_bus_scan() for the same scope, although the
namespace objects they correspond to stay in memory all the time
(which always is the case on a vast majority of systems).

Second, it will allow user space to see that there are namespace
nodes representing devices that are not present at the moment and may
be added to the system.  It will also allow user space to evaluate
_SUN for those nodes to check what physical slots the "missing"
devices may be put into and it will make sense to add a sysfs
attribute for _STA evaluation after this change (that will be
useful for thermal management on some systems).

Next, it will help to consolidate the ACPI hotplug handling among
subsystems by making it possible to store hotplug-related information
in struct acpi_device objects in a standard common way.

Finally, it will help to avoid a race condition related to the
deletion of ACPI namespace nodes.  Namely, namespace nodes may be
deleted as a result of a table unload triggered by _EJ0 or _DCK.
If a hotplug notification for one of those nodes is triggered
right before the deletion and it executes a hotplug callback
via acpi_hotplug_execute(), the ACPI handle passed to that
callback may be stale when the callback actually runs.  One way
to work around that is to always pass struct acpi_device pointers
to hotplug callbacks after doing a get_device() on the objects in
question which eliminates the use-after-free possibility (the ACPI
handles in those objects are invalidated by acpi_scan_drop_device(),
so they will trigger ACPICA errors on attempts to use them).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Modify the ACPI namespace scanning code to register a struct
acpi_device object for every namespace node representing a device,
processor and so on, even if the device represented by that namespace
node is reported to be not present and not functional by _STA.

There are multiple reasons to do that.  First of all, it avoids
quite a lot of overhead when struct acpi_device objects are
deleted every time acpi_bus_trim() is run and then added again
by a subsequent acpi_bus_scan() for the same scope, although the
namespace objects they correspond to stay in memory all the time
(which always is the case on a vast majority of systems).

Second, it will allow user space to see that there are namespace
nodes representing devices that are not present at the moment and may
be added to the system.  It will also allow user space to evaluate
_SUN for those nodes to check what physical slots the "missing"
devices may be put into and it will make sense to add a sysfs
attribute for _STA evaluation after this change (that will be
useful for thermal management on some systems).

Next, it will help to consolidate the ACPI hotplug handling among
subsystems by making it possible to store hotplug-related information
in struct acpi_device objects in a standard common way.

Finally, it will help to avoid a race condition related to the
deletion of ACPI namespace nodes.  Namely, namespace nodes may be
deleted as a result of a table unload triggered by _EJ0 or _DCK.
If a hotplug notification for one of those nodes is triggered
right before the deletion and it executes a hotplug callback
via acpi_hotplug_execute(), the ACPI handle passed to that
callback may be stale when the callback actually runs.  One way
to work around that is to always pass struct acpi_device pointers
to hotplug callbacks after doing a get_device() on the objects in
question which eliminates the use-after-free possibility (the ACPI
handles in those objects are invalidated by acpi_scan_drop_device(),
so they will trigger ACPICA errors on attempts to use them).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpi-hotplug'</title>
<updated>2013-11-07T18:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-07T18:31:15+00:00</published>
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* acpi-hotplug:
  ACPI / hotplug: Consolidate deferred execution of ACPI hotplug routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Do not execute "insert in progress" _OST
  ACPI / hotplug: Carry out PCI root eject directly
  ACPI / hotplug: Merge device hot-removal routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Make acpi_bus_hot_remove_device() internal
  ACPI / hotplug: Simplify device ejection routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix handle_root_bridge_removal()
  ACPI / hotplug: Refuse to hot-remove all objects with disabled hotplug
  ACPI / scan: Start matching drivers after trying scan handlers
  ACPI: Remove acpi_pci_slot_init() headers from internal.h

Conflicts:
	include/acpi/acpiosxf.h (with the 'acpica' branch)
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* acpi-hotplug:
  ACPI / hotplug: Consolidate deferred execution of ACPI hotplug routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Do not execute "insert in progress" _OST
  ACPI / hotplug: Carry out PCI root eject directly
  ACPI / hotplug: Merge device hot-removal routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Make acpi_bus_hot_remove_device() internal
  ACPI / hotplug: Simplify device ejection routines
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix handle_root_bridge_removal()
  ACPI / hotplug: Refuse to hot-remove all objects with disabled hotplug
  ACPI / scan: Start matching drivers after trying scan handlers
  ACPI: Remove acpi_pci_slot_init() headers from internal.h

Conflicts:
	include/acpi/acpiosxf.h (with the 'acpica' branch)
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / hotplug: Consolidate deferred execution of ACPI hotplug routines</title>
<updated>2013-11-07T18:28:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-07T00:45:40+00:00</published>
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There are two different interfaces for queuing up work items on the
ACPI hotplug workqueue, alloc_acpi_hp_work() used by PCI and PCI host
bridge hotplug code and acpi_os_hotplug_execute() used by the common
ACPI hotplug code and docking stations.  They both are somewhat
cumbersome to use and work slightly differently.

The users of alloc_acpi_hp_work() have to submit a work function that
will extract the necessary data items from a struct acpi_hp_work
object allocated by alloc_acpi_hp_work() and then will free that
object, while it would be more straightforward to simply use a work
function with one more argument and let the interface take care of
the execution details.

The users of acpi_os_hotplug_execute() also have to deal with the
fact that it takes only one argument in addition to the work function
pointer, although acpi_os_execute_deferred() actually takes care of
the allocation and freeing of memory, so it would have been able to
pass more arguments to the work function if it hadn't been
constrained by the connection with acpi_os_execute().

Moreover, while alloc_acpi_hp_work() makes GFP_KERNEL memory
allocations, which is correct, because hotplug work items are
always queued up from process context, acpi_os_hotplug_execute()
uses GFP_ATOMIC, as that is needed by acpi_os_execute().  Also,
acpi_os_execute_deferred() queued up by it waits for the ACPI event
workqueues to flush before executing the work function, whereas
alloc_acpi_hp_work() can't do anything similar.  That leads to
somewhat arbitrary differences in behavior between various ACPI
hotplug code paths and has to be straightened up.

For this reason, replace both alloc_acpi_hp_work() and
acpi_os_hotplug_execute() with a single interface,
acpi_hotplug_execute(), combining their behavior and being more
friendly to its users than any of the two.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
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There are two different interfaces for queuing up work items on the
ACPI hotplug workqueue, alloc_acpi_hp_work() used by PCI and PCI host
bridge hotplug code and acpi_os_hotplug_execute() used by the common
ACPI hotplug code and docking stations.  They both are somewhat
cumbersome to use and work slightly differently.

The users of alloc_acpi_hp_work() have to submit a work function that
will extract the necessary data items from a struct acpi_hp_work
object allocated by alloc_acpi_hp_work() and then will free that
object, while it would be more straightforward to simply use a work
function with one more argument and let the interface take care of
the execution details.

The users of acpi_os_hotplug_execute() also have to deal with the
fact that it takes only one argument in addition to the work function
pointer, although acpi_os_execute_deferred() actually takes care of
the allocation and freeing of memory, so it would have been able to
pass more arguments to the work function if it hadn't been
constrained by the connection with acpi_os_execute().

Moreover, while alloc_acpi_hp_work() makes GFP_KERNEL memory
allocations, which is correct, because hotplug work items are
always queued up from process context, acpi_os_hotplug_execute()
uses GFP_ATOMIC, as that is needed by acpi_os_execute().  Also,
acpi_os_execute_deferred() queued up by it waits for the ACPI event
workqueues to flush before executing the work function, whereas
alloc_acpi_hp_work() can't do anything similar.  That leads to
somewhat arbitrary differences in behavior between various ACPI
hotplug code paths and has to be straightened up.

For this reason, replace both alloc_acpi_hp_work() and
acpi_os_hotplug_execute() with a single interface,
acpi_hotplug_execute(), combining their behavior and being more
friendly to its users than any of the two.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
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