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Subject: Re: panic in AcpiExReleaseMutex
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on 04/12/2009 23:38 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 04/12/2009 23:24 Moore, Robert said the following:
>> Another question, however: is the global lock involved in any way?
> 
> Yes.  EC querying is performed under global lock.  That is, it gets locked and
> unlocked in EcGpeQueryHandler function before _Qxx evaluation.
> I am actually curious why you asked this question.

Hmm, I lied, this is done only if _GLK successfully evaluates to non-zero value,
which is not the case.

-- 
Andriy Gapon