ACPI updates for 5.1-rc1
- Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20190215
including ACPI 6.3 support and more:
* New predefined methods: _NBS, _NCH, _NIC, _NIH, and _NIG (Erik
Schmauss).
* Update of the PCC Identifier structure in PDTT (Erik Schmauss).
* Support for new Generic Affinity Structure subtable in SRAT
(Erik Schmauss).
* New PCC operation region support (Erik Schmauss).
* Support for GICC statistical profiling for MADT (Erik Schmauss).
* New Error Disconnect Recover notification support (Erik Schmauss).
* New PPTT Processor Structure Flags fields support (Erik Schmauss).
* ACPI 6.3 HMAT updates (Erik Schmauss).
* GTDT Revision 3 support (Erik Schmauss).
* Legacy module-level code (MLC) support removal (Erik Schmauss).
* Update/clarification of messages for control method failures
(Bob Moore).
* Warning on creation of a zero-length opregion (Bob Moore).
* acpiexec option to dump extra info for memory leaks (Bob Moore).
* More ACPI error to firmware error conversions (Bob Moore).
* Debugger fix (Bob Moore).
* Copyrights update (Bob Moore).
- Clean up sleep states support code in ACPICA (Christoph Hellwig).
- Rework in_nmi() handling in the APEI code and add suppor for the
ARM Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) to it (James
Morse).
- Fix possible out-of-bounds accesses in BERT-related core (Ross
Lagerwall).
- Fix the APEI code parsing HEST that includes a Deferred Machine
Check subtable (Yazen Ghannam).
- Use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE for APEI-related debugfs files
(YueHaibing).
- Switch the APEI ERST code to the new generic UUID API (Andy
Shevchenko).
- Update the MAINTAINERS entry for APEI (Borislav Petkov).
- Fix and clean up the ACPI EC driver (Rafael Wysocki, Zhang Rui).
- Fix DMI checks handling in the ACPI backlight driver and add the
"Lunch Box" chassis-type check to it (Hans de Goede).
- Add support for using ACPI table overrides included in built-in
initrd images (Shunyong Yang).
- Update ACPI device enumeration to treat the PWM2 device as "always
present" on Lenovo Yoga Book (Yauhen Kharuzhy).
- Fix up the enumeration of device objects with the PRP0001 device
ID (Andy Shevchenko).
- Clean up PPTT parsing error messages (John Garry).
- Clean up debugfs files creation handling (Greg Kroah-Hartman,
Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up the ACPI DPTF Makefile (Masahiro Yamada).