acpi_hw_get_gpe_status(struct acpi_gpe_event_info *gpe_event_info,
                       acpi_event_status *event_status);
 
-acpi_status acpi_hw_disable_all_gpes(void);
-
 acpi_status acpi_hw_enable_all_runtime_gpes(void);
 
 acpi_status acpi_hw_enable_all_wakeup_gpes(void);
 
        }
 
        /*
-        * Disable and clear GPE status before interrupt is enabled. Some GPEs
-        * (like wakeup GPE) haven't handler, this can avoid such GPE misfire.
-        * acpi_leave_sleep_state will reenable specific GPEs later
+        * Disable all GPE and clear their status bits before interrupts are
+        * enabled. Some GPEs (like wakeup GPEs) have no handlers and this can
+        * prevent them from producing spurious interrups.
+        *
+        * acpi_leave_sleep_state() will reenable specific GPEs later.
+        *
+        * Because this code runs on one CPU with disabled interrupts (all of
+        * the other CPUs are offline at this time), it need not acquire any
+        * sleeping locks which may trigger an implicit preemption point even
+        * if there is no contention, so avoid doing that by using a low-level
+        * library routine here.
         */
-       acpi_disable_all_gpes();
+       acpi_hw_disable_all_gpes();
        /* Allow EC transactions to happen. */
        acpi_ec_unblock_transactions();
 
 
                                                     acpi_event_status
                                                     *event_status))
 ACPI_HW_DEPENDENT_RETURN_UINT32(u32 acpi_dispatch_gpe(acpi_handle gpe_device, u32 gpe_number))
+ACPI_HW_DEPENDENT_RETURN_STATUS(acpi_status acpi_hw_disable_all_gpes(void))
 ACPI_HW_DEPENDENT_RETURN_STATUS(acpi_status acpi_disable_all_gpes(void))
 ACPI_HW_DEPENDENT_RETURN_STATUS(acpi_status acpi_enable_all_runtime_gpes(void))
 ACPI_HW_DEPENDENT_RETURN_STATUS(acpi_status acpi_enable_all_wakeup_gpes(void))