Merge tag 'acpi-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The majority of this is an update of the ACPICA kernel code to
  upstream revision 20171215 with a cosmetic change and a maintainers
  information update on top of it.

  The rest is mostly some minor fixes and cleanups in the ACPI drivers
  and cleanups to initialization on x86.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA kernel code to upstream revision 20171215 including:
      * Support for ACPI 6.0A changes in the NFIT table (Bob Moore)
      * Local 64-bit divide in string conversions (Bob Moore)
      * Fix for a regression in acpi_evaluate_object_type() (Bob Moore)
      * Fixes for memory leaks during package object resolution (Bob
        Moore)
      * Deployment of safe version of strncpy() (Bob Moore)
      * Debug and messaging updates (Bob Moore)
      * Support for PDTT, SDEV, TPM2 tables in iASL and tools (Bob
        Moore)
      * Null pointer dereference avoidance in Op and cleanups (Colin Ian
        King)
      * Fix for memory leak from building prefixed pathname (Erik
        Schmauss)
      * Coding style fixes, disassembler and compiler updates (Hanjun
        Guo, Erik Schmauss)
      * Additional PPTT flags from ACPI 6.2 (Jeremy Linton)
      * Fix for an off-by-one error in acpi_get_timer_duration()
        (Jung-uk Kim)
      * Infinite loop detection timeout and utilities cleanups (Lv
        Zheng)
      * Windows 10 version 1607 and 1703 OSI strings (Mario
        Limonciello)

   - Update ACPICA information in MAINTAINERS to reflect the current
     status of ACPICA maintenance and rename a local variable in one
     function to match the corresponding upstream code (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Clean up ACPI-related initialization on x86 (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add support for Intel Merrifield to the ACPI GPIO code (Andy
     Shevchenko)

   - Clean up ACPI PMIC drivers (Andy Shevchenko, Arvind Yadav)

   - Fix the ACPI Generic Event Device (GED) driver to free IRQs on
     shutdown and clean up the PCI IRQ Link driver (Sinan Kaya)

   - Make the GHES code call into the AER driver on all errors and clean
     up the ACPI APEI code (Colin Ian King, Tyler Baicar)

   - Make the IA64 ACPI NUMA code parse all SRAT entries (Ganapatrao
     Kulkarni)

   - Add a lid switch blacklist to the ACPI button driver and make it
     print extra debug messages on lid events (Hans de Goede)

   - Add quirks for Asus GL502VSK and UX305LA to the ACPI battery driver
     and clean it up somewhat (Bjørn Mork, Kai-Heng Feng)

   - Add device link for CHT SD card dependency on I2C to the ACPI LPSS
     (Intel SoCs) driver and make it avoid creating platform device
     objects for devices without MMIO resources (Adrian Hunter, Hans de
     Goede)

   - Fix the ACPI GPE mask kernel command line parameter handling
     (Prarit Bhargava)

   - Fix the handling of (incorrectly exposed) backlight interfaces
     without LCD (Hans de Goede)

   - Fix the usage of debugfs_create_*() in the ACPI EC driver (Geert
     Uytterhoeven)"

* tag 'acpi-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (62 commits)
  ACPI/PCI: pci_link: reduce verbosity when IRQ is enabled
  ACPI / LPSS: Do not instiate platform_dev for devs without MMIO resources
  ACPI / PMIC: Convert to use builtin_platform_driver() macro
  ACPI / x86: boot: Propagate error code in acpi_gsi_to_irq()
  ACPICA: Update version to 20171215
  ACPICA: trivial style fix, no functional change
  ACPICA: Fix a couple memory leaks during package object resolution
  ACPICA: Recognize the Windows 10 version 1607 and 1703 OSI strings
  ACPICA: DT compiler: prevent error if optional field at the end of table is not present
  ACPICA: Rename a global variable, no functional change
  ACPICA: Create and deploy safe version of strncpy
  ACPICA: Cleanup the global variables and update comments
  ACPICA: Debugger: fix slight indentation issue
  ACPICA: Fix a regression in the acpi_evaluate_object_type() interface
  ACPICA: Update for a few debug output statements
  ACPICA: Debug output, no functional change
  ACPI: EC: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
  ACPI / video: Default lcd_only to true on Win8-ready and newer machines
  ACPI / x86: boot: Don't setup SCI on HW-reduced platforms
  ACPI / x86: boot: Use INVALID_ACPI_IRQ instead of 0 for acpi_sci_override_gsi
  ...

57 files changed, 982 insertions, 363 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
index 7f2b02cc8ea1..2bcffec8dbf0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
@@ -427,6 +427,142 @@ out:
 	return 0;
 }
 
+struct lpss_device_links {
+	const char *supplier_hid;
+	const char *supplier_uid;
+	const char *consumer_hid;
+	const char *consumer_uid;
+	u32 flags;
+};
+
+/*
+ * The _DEP method is used to identify dependencies but instead of creating
+ * device links for every handle in _DEP, only links in the following list are
+ * created. That is necessary because, in the general case, _DEP can refer to
+ * devices that might not have drivers, or that are on different buses, or where
+ * the supplier is not enumerated until after the consumer is probed.
+ */
+static const struct lpss_device_links lpss_device_links[] = {
+	{"808622C1", "7", "80860F14", "3", DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME},
+};
+
+static bool hid_uid_match(const char *hid1, const char *uid1,
+			  const char *hid2, const char *uid2)
+{
+	return !strcmp(hid1, hid2) && uid1 && uid2 && !strcmp(uid1, uid2);
+}
+
+static bool acpi_lpss_is_supplier(struct acpi_device *adev,
+				  const struct lpss_device_links *link)
+{
+	return hid_uid_match(acpi_device_hid(adev), acpi_device_uid(adev),
+			     link->supplier_hid, link->supplier_uid);
+}
+
+static bool acpi_lpss_is_consumer(struct acpi_device *adev,
+				  const struct lpss_device_links *link)
+{
+	return hid_uid_match(acpi_device_hid(adev), acpi_device_uid(adev),
+			     link->consumer_hid, link->consumer_uid);
+}
+
+struct hid_uid {
+	const char *hid;
+	const char *uid;
+};
+
+static int match_hid_uid(struct device *dev, void *data)
+{
+	struct acpi_device *adev = ACPI_COMPANION(dev);
+	struct hid_uid *id = data;
+
+	if (!adev)
+		return 0;
+
+	return hid_uid_match(acpi_device_hid(adev), acpi_device_uid(adev),
+			     id->hid, id->uid);
+}
+
+static struct device *acpi_lpss_find_device(const char *hid, const char *uid)
+{
+	struct hid_uid data = {
+		.hid = hid,
+		.uid = uid,
+	};
+
+	return bus_find_device(&platform_bus_type, NULL, &data, match_hid_uid);
+}
+
+static bool acpi_lpss_dep(struct acpi_device *adev, acpi_handle handle)
+{
+	struct acpi_handle_list dep_devices;
+	acpi_status status;
+	int i;
+
+	if (!acpi_has_method(adev->handle, "_DEP"))
+		return false;
+
+	status = acpi_evaluate_reference(adev->handle, "_DEP", NULL,
+					 &dep_devices);
+	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+		dev_dbg(&adev->dev, "Failed to evaluate _DEP.\n");
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < dep_devices.count; i++) {
+		if (dep_devices.handles[i] == handle)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+static void acpi_lpss_link_consumer(struct device *dev1,
+				    const struct lpss_device_links *link)
+{
+	struct device *dev2;
+
+	dev2 = acpi_lpss_find_device(link->consumer_hid, link->consumer_uid);
+	if (!dev2)
+		return;
+
+	if (acpi_lpss_dep(ACPI_COMPANION(dev2), ACPI_HANDLE(dev1)))
+		device_link_add(dev2, dev1, link->flags);
+
+	put_device(dev2);
+}
+
+static void acpi_lpss_link_supplier(struct device *dev1,
+				    const struct lpss_device_links *link)
+{
+	struct device *dev2;
+
+	dev2 = acpi_lpss_find_device(link->supplier_hid, link->supplier_uid);
+	if (!dev2)
+		return;
+
+	if (acpi_lpss_dep(ACPI_COMPANION(dev1), ACPI_HANDLE(dev2)))
+		device_link_add(dev1, dev2, link->flags);
+
+	put_device(dev2);
+}
+
+static void acpi_lpss_create_device_links(struct acpi_device *adev,
+					  struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(lpss_device_links); i++) {
+		const struct lpss_device_links *link = &lpss_device_links[i];
+
+		if (acpi_lpss_is_supplier(adev, link))
+			acpi_lpss_link_consumer(&pdev->dev, link);
+
+		if (acpi_lpss_is_consumer(adev, link))
+			acpi_lpss_link_supplier(&pdev->dev, link);
+	}
+}
+
 static int acpi_lpss_create_device(struct acpi_device *adev,
 				   const struct acpi_device_id *id)
 {
@@ -465,6 +601,8 @@ static int acpi_lpss_create_device(struct acpi_device *adev,
 	acpi_dev_free_resource_list(&resource_list);
 
 	if (!pdata->mmio_base) {
+		/* Avoid acpi_bus_attach() instantiating a pdev for this dev. */
+		adev->pnp.type.platform_id = 0;
 		/* Skip the device, but continue the namespace scan. */
 		ret = 0;
 		goto err_out;
@@ -500,6 +638,7 @@ static int acpi_lpss_create_device(struct acpi_device *adev,
 	adev->driver_data = pdata;
 	pdev = acpi_create_platform_device(adev, dev_desc->properties);
 	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pdev)) {
+		acpi_lpss_create_device_links(adev, pdev);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
index 0972ec0e2eb8..f53ccc680238 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(report_key_events,
 static bool device_id_scheme = false;
 module_param(device_id_scheme, bool, 0444);
 
-static bool only_lcd = false;
-module_param(only_lcd, bool, 0444);
+static int only_lcd = -1;
+module_param(only_lcd, int, 0444);
 
 static int register_count;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(register_count_mutex);
@@ -2136,6 +2136,16 @@ int acpi_video_register(void)
 		goto leave;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * We're seeing a lot of bogus backlight interfaces on newer machines
+	 * without a LCD such as desktops, servers and HDMI sticks. Checking
+	 * the lcd flag fixes this, so enable this on any machines which are
+	 * win8 ready (where we also prefer the native backlight driver, so
+	 * normally the acpi_video code should not register there anyways).
+	 */
+	if (only_lcd == -1)
+		only_lcd = acpi_osi_is_win8();
+
 	dmi_check_system(video_dmi_table);
 
 	ret = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_video_bus);
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acapps.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acapps.h
index 7a1a68b5ac5c..2243c8164b34 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acapps.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acapps.h
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@
 	prefix, ACPICA_COPYRIGHT, \
 	prefix
 
+#define ACPI_COMMON_BUILD_TIME \
+	"Build date/time: %s %s\n", __DATE__, __TIME__
+
 /* Macros for usage messages */
 
 #define ACPI_USAGE_HEADER(usage) \
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acdebug.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acdebug.h
index 71743e5252f5..54b8d9df9423 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acdebug.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acdebug.h
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ void
 acpi_db_execute(char *name, char **args, acpi_object_type *types, u32 flags);
 
 void
+acpi_db_create_execution_thread(char *method_name_arg,
+				char **arguments, acpi_object_type *types);
+
+void
 acpi_db_create_execution_threads(char *num_threads_arg,
 				 char *num_loops_arg, char *method_name_arg);
 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
index 95eed442703f..45ef3f5dc9ad 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  *
- * Globals related to the ACPI tables
+ * Globals related to the incoming ACPI tables
  *
  ****************************************************************************/
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_integer_nybble_width);
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  *
- * Mutual exclusion within ACPICA subsystem
+ * Mutual exclusion within the ACPICA subsystem
  *
  ****************************************************************************/
 
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_next_owner_id_offset);
 
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_namespace_initialized, FALSE);
 
-/* Misc */
+/* Miscellaneous */
 
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_original_mode);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_ns_lookup_count);
@@ -191,10 +191,9 @@ extern const char acpi_gbl_lower_hex_digits[];
 extern const char acpi_gbl_upper_hex_digits[];
 extern const struct acpi_opcode_info acpi_gbl_aml_op_info[AML_NUM_OPCODES];
 
-#ifdef ACPI_DBG_TRACK_ALLOCATIONS
-
 /* Lists for tracking memory allocations (debug only) */
 
+#ifdef ACPI_DBG_TRACK_ALLOCATIONS
 ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_memory_list *, acpi_gbl_global_list);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_memory_list *, acpi_gbl_ns_node_list);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_display_final_mem_stats);
@@ -203,7 +202,7 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_disable_mem_tracking);
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  *
- * Namespace globals
+ * ACPI Namespace
  *
  ****************************************************************************/
 
@@ -234,15 +233,20 @@ ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_nesting_level, 0);
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  *
- * Interpreter globals
+ * Interpreter/Parser globals
  *
  ****************************************************************************/
 
-ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_thread_state *, acpi_gbl_current_walk_list);
-
 /* Control method single step flag */
 
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_cm_single_step);
+ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_thread_state *, acpi_gbl_current_walk_list);
+ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(union acpi_parse_object, *acpi_gbl_current_scope, NULL);
+
+/* ASL/ASL+ converter */
+
+ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_capture_comments, FALSE);
+ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_last_list_head, NULL);
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  *
@@ -252,7 +256,6 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_cm_single_step);
 
 extern struct acpi_bit_register_info
     acpi_gbl_bit_register_info[ACPI_NUM_BITREG];
-
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_sleep_type_a);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_sleep_type_b);
 
@@ -263,7 +266,6 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_sleep_type_b);
  ****************************************************************************/
 
 #if (!ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE)
-
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_all_gpes_initialized);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_gpe_xrupt_info *, acpi_gbl_gpe_xrupt_list_head);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_gpe_block_info *,
@@ -272,10 +274,8 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_gbl_event_handler, acpi_gbl_global_event_handler);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(void *, acpi_gbl_global_event_handler_context);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_fixed_event_handler,
 	    acpi_gbl_fixed_event_handlers[ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS]);
-
 extern struct acpi_fixed_event_info
     acpi_gbl_fixed_event_info[ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS];
-
 #endif				/* !ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE */
 
 /*****************************************************************************
@@ -291,14 +291,14 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gpe_count);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_sci_count);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_fixed_event_count[ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS]);
 
-/* Support for dynamic control method tracing mechanism */
+/* Dynamic control method tracing mechanism */
 
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_original_dbg_level);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_original_dbg_layer);
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  *
- * Debugger and Disassembler globals
+ * Debugger and Disassembler
  *
  ****************************************************************************/
 
@@ -326,7 +326,6 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_external_file *, acpi_gbl_external_file_list);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef ACPI_DEBUGGER
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_abort_method, FALSE);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(acpi_thread_id, acpi_gbl_db_thread_id, ACPI_INVALID_THREAD_ID);
 
@@ -340,7 +339,6 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_db_console_debug_level);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(struct acpi_namespace_node *, acpi_gbl_db_scope_node);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_db_terminate_loop);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_db_threads_terminated);
-
 ACPI_GLOBAL(char *, acpi_gbl_db_args[ACPI_DEBUGGER_MAX_ARGS]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_object_type, acpi_gbl_db_arg_types[ACPI_DEBUGGER_MAX_ARGS]);
 
@@ -350,32 +348,33 @@ ACPI_GLOBAL(char, acpi_gbl_db_parsed_buf[ACPI_DB_LINE_BUFFER_SIZE]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(char, acpi_gbl_db_scope_buf[ACPI_DB_LINE_BUFFER_SIZE]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(char, acpi_gbl_db_debug_filename[ACPI_DB_LINE_BUFFER_SIZE]);
 
-/*
- * Statistic globals
- */
+/* Statistics globals */
+
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u16, acpi_gbl_obj_type_count[ACPI_TOTAL_TYPES]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u16, acpi_gbl_node_type_count[ACPI_TOTAL_TYPES]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u16, acpi_gbl_obj_type_count_misc);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u16, acpi_gbl_node_type_count_misc);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_num_nodes);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(u32, acpi_gbl_num_objects);
-
 #endif				/* ACPI_DEBUGGER */
 
 #if defined (ACPI_DISASSEMBLER) || defined (ACPI_ASL_COMPILER)
-
 ACPI_GLOBAL(const char, *acpi_gbl_pld_panel_list[]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(const char, *acpi_gbl_pld_vertical_position_list[]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(const char, *acpi_gbl_pld_horizontal_position_list[]);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(const char, *acpi_gbl_pld_shape_list[]);
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_disasm_flag, FALSE);
-
 #endif
 
-/*
- * Meant for the -ca option.
- */
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *
+ * ACPICA application-specific globals
+ *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+/* ASL-to-ASL+ conversion utility (implemented within the iASL compiler) */
+
+#ifdef ACPI_ASL_COMPILER
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(char *, acpi_gbl_current_inline_comment, NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(char *, acpi_gbl_current_end_node_comment, NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(char *, acpi_gbl_current_open_brace_comment, NULL);
@@ -386,23 +385,18 @@ ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(char *, acpi_gbl_current_filename, NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(char *, acpi_gbl_current_parent_filename, NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(char *, acpi_gbl_current_include_filename, NULL);
 
-ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_last_list_head, NULL);
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_def_blk_comment_list_head,
 		 NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_def_blk_comment_list_tail,
 		 NULL);
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_reg_comment_list_head,
 		 NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_reg_comment_list_tail,
 		 NULL);
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_inc_comment_list_head,
 		 NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_inc_comment_list_tail,
 		 NULL);
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_end_blk_comment_list_head,
 		 NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_end_blk_comment_list_tail,
@@ -410,30 +404,18 @@ ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_node, *acpi_gbl_end_blk_comment_list_tail,
 
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_comment_addr_node,
 		 *acpi_gbl_comment_addr_list_head, NULL);
-
-ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(union acpi_parse_object, *acpi_gbl_current_scope, NULL);
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(struct acpi_file_node, *acpi_gbl_file_tree_root, NULL);
 
 ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_cache_t *, acpi_gbl_reg_comment_cache);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_cache_t *, acpi_gbl_comment_addr_cache);
 ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_cache_t *, acpi_gbl_file_cache);
 
-ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, gbl_capture_comments, FALSE);
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_debug_asl_conversion, FALSE);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(ACPI_FILE, acpi_gbl_conv_debug_file, NULL);
-
 ACPI_GLOBAL(char, acpi_gbl_table_sig[4]);
-
-/*****************************************************************************
- *
- * Application globals
- *
- ****************************************************************************/
+#endif
 
 #ifdef ACPI_APPLICATION
-
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(ACPI_FILE, acpi_gbl_debug_file, NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(ACPI_FILE, acpi_gbl_output_file, NULL);
 ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_debug_timeout, FALSE);
@@ -442,16 +424,6 @@ ACPI_INIT_GLOBAL(u8, acpi_gbl_debug_timeout, FALSE);
 
 ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_spinlock, acpi_gbl_print_lock);	/* For print buffer */
 ACPI_GLOBAL(char, acpi_gbl_print_buffer[1024]);
-
 #endif				/* ACPI_APPLICATION */
 
-/*****************************************************************************
- *
- * Info/help support
- *
- ****************************************************************************/
-
-extern const struct ah_predefined_name asl_predefined_info[];
-extern const struct ah_device_id asl_device_ids[];
-
 #endif				/* __ACGLOBAL_H__ */
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h
index 0d45b8bb1678..a56675f0661e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ struct acpi_control_state {
 	union acpi_parse_object *predicate_op;
 	u8 *aml_predicate_start;	/* Start of if/while predicate */
 	u8 *package_end;	/* End of if/while block */
-	u32 loop_count;		/* While() loop counter */
+	u64 loop_timeout;	/* While() loop timeout */
 };
 
 /*
@@ -1218,16 +1218,17 @@ struct acpi_db_method_info {
 	acpi_object_type *types;
 
 	/*
-	 * Arguments to be passed to method for the command
-	 * Threads -
-	 *   the Number of threads, ID of current thread and
-	 *   Index of current thread inside all them created.
+	 * Arguments to be passed to method for the commands Threads and
+	 * Background. Note, ACPI specifies a maximum of 7 arguments (0 - 6).
+	 *
+	 * For the Threads command, the Number of threads, ID of current
+	 * thread and Index of current thread inside all them created.
 	 */
 	char init_args;
 #ifdef ACPI_DEBUGGER
-	acpi_object_type arg_types[4];
+	acpi_object_type arg_types[ACPI_METHOD_NUM_ARGS];
 #endif
-	char *arguments[4];
+	char *arguments[ACPI_METHOD_NUM_ARGS];
 	char num_threads_str[11];
 	char id_of_thread_str[11];
 	char index_of_thread_str[11];
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acmacros.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acmacros.h
index c7f0c96cc00f..128a3d71b598 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acmacros.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acmacros.h
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@
  * the plist contains a set of parens to allow variable-length lists.
  * These macros are used for both the debug and non-debug versions of the code.
  */
-#define ACPI_ERROR_NAMESPACE(s, e)          acpi_ut_namespace_error (AE_INFO, s, e);
+#define ACPI_ERROR_NAMESPACE(s, p, e)       acpi_ut_prefixed_namespace_error (AE_INFO, s, p, e);
 #define ACPI_ERROR_METHOD(s, n, p, e)       acpi_ut_method_error (AE_INFO, s, n, p, e);
 #define ACPI_WARN_PREDEFINED(plist)         acpi_ut_predefined_warning plist
 #define ACPI_INFO_PREDEFINED(plist)         acpi_ut_predefined_info plist
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h
index 54a0c51b3e37..2fb1bb78d85c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h
@@ -289,6 +289,9 @@ acpi_ns_build_normalized_path(struct acpi_namespace_node *node,
 char *acpi_ns_get_n