while in fact it's not). To remove the race condition, modify the ACPI platform suspend and hibernate callbacks so that EC transactions are blocked right after executing the _PTS global control method and are allowed to happen again right after the low-level wakeup. Introduce acpi_pm_freeze() that will disable GPEs, wait until the event queues are empty and block EC transactions. Use it wherever GPEs are disabled in preparation for switching local interrupts off. Introduce acpi_pm_thaw() that will allow EC transactions to happen again and enable runtime GPEs. Use it to balance acpi_pm_freeze() wherever necessary. In addition to that use acpi_ec_resume_transactions_early() to unblock EC transactions as early as reasonably possible during resume. Also unblock EC transactions in acpi_hibernation_finish() and in the analogous suspend routine to make sure that the EC transactions are enabled in all error paths. Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14668 Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Reported-and-tested-by: Maxim Levitsky Signed-off-by: Len Brown