- Update ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20211217 upstream release
including the following changes:
* iASL/Disassembler: Additional support for NHLT table (Bob Moore).
* Change a return_ACPI_STATUS (AE_BAD_PARAMETER) (Bob Moore).
* Fix a couple of warnings under MSVC (Bob Moore).
* iASL: Add TDEL table to both compiler/disassembler (Bob Moore).
* iASL/NHLT table: "Specific Data" field support (Bob Moore).
* Use original data_table_region pointer for accesses (Jessica
Clarke).
* Use original pointer for virtual origin tables (Jessica Clarke).
* Macros: Remove ACPI_PHYSADDR_TO_PTR (Jessica Clarke).
* Avoid subobject buffer overflow when validating RSDP signature
(Jessica Clarke).
* iASL: Add suppport for AGDI table (Ilkka Koskinen).
* Hardware: Do not flush CPU cache when entering S4 and S5 (Kirill
A. Shutemov).
* Expand the ACPI_ACCESS_ definitions (Mark Langsdorf).
* Utilities: Avoid deleting the same object twice in a row (Rafael
Wysocki).
* Executer: Fix REFCLASS_REFOF case in acpi_ex_opcode_1A_0T_1R()
(Rafael Wysocki).
* Fix AEST Processor generic resource substructure data field byte
length (Shuuichirou Ishii).
* Fix wrong interpretation of PCC address (Sudeep Holla).
* Add support for PCC Opregion special context data (Sudeep Holla).
- Implement OperationRegion handler for PCC Type 3 subtype (Sudeep
Holla).
- Introduce acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() as a replacement for
acpi_bus_get_device() and use it in the ACPI subsystem (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Avoid using _CID for device enumaration if _HID is missing or
invalid (Rafael Wysocki).
- Rework quirk handling during ACPI device enumeration and add some
new quirks for known broken platforms (Hans de Goede).
- Avoid unnecessary or redundant CPU cache flushing during system
PM transitions (Kirill A. Shutemov).
- Add PM debug messages related to power resources (Rafael Wysocki).
- Fix kernel-doc comment in the PCI host bridge ACPI driver (Yang Li).
- Rework flushing of EC work while suspended to idle and clean up
the handling of events in the ACPI EC driver (Rafael Wysocki).
- Prohibit ec_sys module parameter write_support from being used
when the system is locked down (Hans de Goede).
- Make the ACPI processor thermal driver use cpufreq_cpu_get() to
check for presence of cpufreq policy (Manfred Spraul).
- Avoid unnecessary CPU cache flushing in the ACPI processor idle
driver (Kirill A. Shutemov).
- Replace kernel.h with the necessary inclusions in the ACPI
processor driver (Andy Shevchenko).
- Use swap() instead of open coding it in the ACPI processor idle
driver (Guo Zhengkui).
- Fix the handling of defective LPAT in the ACPI xpower PMIC driver
and clean up some definitions of PMIC data structures (Hans de
Goede).
- Fix outdated comment in the ACPI DPTF driver (Sumeet Pawnikar).
- Add AEST to the list of known ACPI table signatures (Shuuichirou
Ishii).
- Make ACPI NUMA code take hotpluggable memblocks into account when
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not set (Vitaly Kuznetsov).
- Use default_groups in kobj_type in the ACPI sysfs code (Greg
Kroah-Hartman).
- Rearrange _CPC structure documentation (Andy Shevchenko).
- Drop an always true check from the ACPI thermal driver (Adam
Borowski).
- Add new "not charging" quirk for Lenovo ThinkPads to the ACPI
battery driver (Thomas Weißschuh).