ACPI updates for v4.13-rc1
- Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
revision 20170531 (which covers all of the new material from
ACPI 6.2) including:
* Support for the PinFunction(), PinConfig(), PinGroup(),
PinGroupFunction(), and PinGroupConfig() resource descriptors
(Mika Westerberg).
* Support for new subtables in HEST and SRAT, new notify value
for HEST, header support for TPM2 table changes, and BGRT
Status field update (Bob Moore).
* Support for new PCCT subtables (David Box).
* Support for _LSI, _LSR, _LSW, and _HMA as predefined methods
(Erik Schmauss).
* Support for the new WSMT, HMAT, and PPTT tables (Lv Zheng).
* New UUID values for Processor Properties (Bob Moore).
* New notify values for memory attributes and graceful shutdown
(Bob Moore).
* Fix related to the PCAT_COMPAT MADT flag (Janosch Hildebrand).
* Resource to AML conversion fix for resources containing GPIOs
(Mika Westerberg).
* Disassembler-related updates (Bob Moore, David Box, Erik
Schmauss).
* Assorted fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore, Erik Schmauss, Lv Zheng,
Cao Jin).
- Modify ACPICA to always use designated initializers for function
pointer structures to make the structure layout randomization GCC
plugin work with it (Kees Cook).
- Update the tables configfs interface to unload SSDTs on configfs
entry removal (Jan Kiszka).
- Add support for the GPI1 regulator to the xpower PMIC Operation
Region handler (Hans de Goede).
- Fix ACPI EC issues related to conflicting EC definitions in the
ECDT and in the ACPI namespace (Lv Zheng, Carlo Caione, Chris
Chiu).
- Fix an interrupt storm issue in the EC driver and make its debug
output work with dynamic debug as expected (Lv Zheng).
- Add ACPI backlight quirk for Dell Precision 7510 (Shih-Yuan Lee).
- Fix whitespace in pr_fmt() to align log entries properly in some
places in the ACPI subsystem (Vincent Legoll).