ACPICA 20130328 Release

The 20130328 ACPICA kernel resident system updates is linuxized based on the pm/linux-next branch.
The patch set has passed a basic build/boot test on z530.

Fixed several possible race conditions with the internal object reference counting mechanism. Some of the external ACPICA interfaces update object reference counts without holding the interpreter or namespace lock. This change adds a spinlock to protect reference count updates on the internal ACPICA objects. Reported by and with assistance from Andriy Gapon ([email protected]).

FADT support: Removed an extraneous warning for very large GPE register sets. This change removes a size mismatch warning if the legacy length field for a GPE register set is larger than the 64-bit GAS structure can accommodate. GPE register sets can be larger than the 255-bit width limitation of the GAS structure. Linn Crosetto ([email protected]).

_OSI Support: handle any errors from AcpiOsAcquireMutex. Check for error return from this interface. Handles a possible timeout case if ACPI_WAIT_FOREVER is modified by the host to be a value less than "forever". Jung-uk Kim.

Predefined name support: Add allowed/required argument type information to the master predefined info table. This change adds the infrastructure to enable typechecking on incoming arguments for all predefined methods/objects. It does not actually contain the code that will fully utilize this information, this is still under development. Also condenses some duplicate code for the predefined names into a new module, utilities/utpredef.c

Example Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the OS-independent acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 32-bit compiler. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size.

Previous Release:

    Non-Debug Version:  95.0K Code, 25.9K Data, 120.9K Total
    Debug Version:     182.9K Code, 75.6K Data, 258.5K Total
  Current Release:
    Non-Debug Version:  95.2K Code, 26.4K Data, 121.6K Total
    Debug Version:     183.0K Code, 76.0K Data, 259.0K Total

Bob Moore (6):
ACPICA: Predefine names: Add allowed argument types to master info
table
ACPICA: Improve error message for Index() operator
ACPICA: Remove FORCE_DELETE option for global reference count
mechanism
ACPICA: Fix a format string for 64-bit generation
ACPICA: Update version to 20130328
ACPICA: Add a lock to the internal object reference count mechanism

Colin Ian King (2):
ACPICA: Fix a typo in an error message
ACPICA: Fix a typo in a function header, no functional change

Jung-uk Kim (1):
ACPICA: _OSI Support: handle any errors from AcpiOsAcquireMutex

Linn Crosetto (1):
ACPICA: FADT: Remove extraneous warning for very large GPE registers

Tang Chen (1):
ACPICA: Fix for some comments/headers

 drivers/acpi/acpica/Makefile   |    1 +
 drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h |    1 +
 drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h  |   13 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h |    4 -
 drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h | 1305 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h  |   25 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/dswexec.c  |    2 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/evevent.c  |    2 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/exoparg2.c |   11 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c   |   26 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c |  106 +---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c   |    4 +
 drivers/acpi/acpica/tbxface.c  |   22 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/utdelete.c |   96 +--
 drivers/acpi/acpica/utmutex.c  |    9 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/utosi.c    |   26 +-
 drivers/acpi/acpica/utpredef.c |  399 ++++++++++++
 drivers/acpi/acpica/utxface.c  |   17 +-
 include/acpi/acpixf.h          |    2 +-
 19 files changed, 1481 insertions(+), 590 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/acpica/utpredef.c

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