[PATCH v7 09/11] cxl/acpi: Prepare use of EFI runtime services

From: Robert Richter

Date: Fri Nov 14 2025 - 16:40:22 EST


In order to use EFI runtime services, esp. ACPI PRM which uses the
efi_rts_wq workqueue, initialize EFI before CXL ACPI.

There is a subsys_initcall order dependency if driver is builtin:

subsys_initcall(cxl_acpi_init);
subsys_initcall(efisubsys_init);

Prevent the efi_rts_wq workqueue being used by cxl_acpi_init() before
its allocation. Use subsys_initcall_sync(cxl_acpi_init) to always run
efisubsys_init() first.

Reported-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cxl/acpi.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
index 866813e1b729..604cf995d0e4 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
@@ -989,8 +989,12 @@ static void __exit cxl_acpi_exit(void)
cxl_bus_drain();
}

-/* load before dax_hmem sees 'Soft Reserved' CXL ranges */
-subsys_initcall(cxl_acpi_init);
+/*
+ * Load before dax_hmem sees 'Soft Reserved' CXL ranges. Use
+ * subsys_initcall_sync() since there is an order dependency with
+ * subsys_initcall(efisubsys_init), which must run first.
+ */
+subsys_initcall_sync(cxl_acpi_init);

/*
* Arrange for host-bridge ports to be active synchronous with
--
2.47.3