linux/drivers/acpi
Lv Zheng 5d8813271f ACPI / tables: Convert initrd table override to table upgrade mechanism
This patch converts the initrd table override mechanism to the table
upgrade mechanism by restricting its usage to the tables released with
compatibility and more recent revision.

This use case has been encouraged by the ACPI specification:

 1. OEMID:
    An OEM-supplied string that identifies the OEM.

 2. OEM Table ID:
    An OEM-supplied string that the OEM uses to identify the particular data
    table. This field is particularly useful when defining a definition
    block to distinguish definition block functions. OEM assigns each
    dissimilar table a new OEM Table Id.

 3. OEM Revision:
    An OEM-supplied revision number. Larger numbers are assumed to be newer
    revisions.

For OEMs, good practices will ensure consistency when assigning OEMID and
OEM Table ID fields in any table. The intent of these fields is to allow
for a binary control system that support services can use. Because many
support function can be automated, it is useful when a tool can
programatically determine which table release is a compatible and more
recent revision of a prior table on the same OEMID and OEM Table ID.

The facility can now be used by the vendors to upgrade wrong tables for bug
fixing purpose, thus lockdep disabling taint is not suitable for it and it
should be a default 'y' option to implement the spec encouraged use case.

Note that, by implementing table upgrade inside of ACPICA itself, it is
possible to remove acpi_table_initrd_override() and tables can be upgraded
by acpi_install_table() automatically. Though current ACPICA impelentation
hasn't implemented this, this patched changes the table flag setting timing
to allow this to be implemented in ACPICA without changing the code here.

Documentation of initrd override mechanism is upgraded accordingly.

Original-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2016-04-18 23:59:09 +02:00
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acpica Merge branch 'acpica' 2016-03-14 14:19:52 +01:00
apei Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
pmic drivers/acpi: make pmic/intel_pmic_crc.c explicitly non-modular 2016-03-09 23:46:07 +01:00
ac.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
acpi_amba.c ACPI / scan: AMBA bus probing support 2016-02-16 19:58:25 +01:00
acpi_apd.c ACPI / APD: Add device HID for future AMD UART controller 2016-03-17 02:54:39 +01:00
acpi_cmos_rtc.c ACPI / RTC: Fix CMOS RTC opregion handler accesses to wrong addresses 2014-09-08 15:38:41 +02:00
acpi_dbg.c ACPI / debugger: Fix a redundant mutex unlock issue in acpi_aml_open() 2015-12-28 01:29:41 +01:00
acpi_extlog.c ACPI and power management updates for 3.17-rc1 2014-08-06 20:34:19 -07:00
acpi_ipmi.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
acpi_lpat.c ACPI / LPAT: Common table processing functions 2015-01-29 21:02:10 +08:00
acpi_lpss.c ACPI / LPSS: set PM domain via helper setter 2016-02-03 01:08:22 +01:00
acpi_memhotplug.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
acpi_pad.c ACPI / PAD: power_saving_thread() is not freezable 2015-10-26 04:42:54 +01:00
acpi_platform.c Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
acpi_pnp.c ACPI / PNP: constify device IDs 2016-01-04 22:10:30 +01:00
acpi_processor.c ACPI / processor: Request native thermal interrupt handling via _OSC 2016-03-26 02:00:38 +01:00
acpi_video.c ACPI / video: remove unused device_decode array 2016-03-09 23:29:07 +01:00
battery.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
battery.h ACPI / battery: move some ACPI_BATTERY_* definitions to header 2014-03-19 01:57:46 +01:00
bgrt.c drivers/acpi: make bgrt driver explicitly non-modular 2016-03-09 23:46:07 +01:00
blacklist.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
bus.c Merge branch 'acpi-processor' 2016-04-02 01:17:36 +02:00
button.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
cm_sbs.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
container.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
cppc_acpi.c ACPI / CPPC: use MRTT/MPAR to decide if/when a req can be sent 2016-03-09 23:35:29 +01:00
custom_method.c ACPI: Clean up inclusions of ACPI header files 2013-12-07 01:03:14 +01:00
debugfs.c ACPI: fix acpi_debugfs_init prototype 2015-08-07 02:55:18 +02:00
device_pm.c PM / Domains: add setter for dev.pm_domain 2016-01-08 01:12:06 +01:00
device_sysfs.c ACPI / property: avoid leaking format string into kobject name 2016-01-08 01:01:41 +01:00
dock.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
ec_sys.c ACPI / EC: Deny write access unless requested by module param 2016-03-09 23:26:15 +01:00
ec.c ACPI-EC: Drop unnecessary check made before calling acpi_ec_delete_query() 2015-11-16 23:29:44 +01:00
event.c netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void 2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
fan.c ACPI / fan: Make struct dev_pm_ops const 2016-03-09 23:23:21 +01:00
glue.c Merge branch 'acpi-pci' 2015-11-07 01:30:10 +01:00
gsi.c ACPI: Rename acpi_gsi_get_irq_type to acpi_dev_get_irq_type and export symbol 2016-01-01 03:20:25 +01:00
hed.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
int340x_thermal.c ACPI: Eliminate CONFIG_.*{, _MODULE} #ifdef in favor of IS_ENABLED() 2015-09-15 03:05:45 +02:00
internal.h ACPI / tables: Move table override mechanisms to tables.c 2016-04-18 23:59:08 +02:00
ioapic.c x86/irq, ACPI: Implement ACPI driver to support IOAPIC hotplug 2015-02-05 15:09:26 +01:00
Kconfig ACPI / tables: Convert initrd table override to table upgrade mechanism 2016-04-18 23:59:09 +02:00
Makefile ACPI / scan: AMBA bus probing support 2016-02-16 19:58:25 +01:00
nfit.c Merge branch 'for-4.6/pfn' into libnvdimm-for-next 2016-03-09 17:15:43 -08:00
nfit.h nfit: scrub and register regions in a workqueue 2016-03-05 12:24:06 -08:00
numa.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
nvs.c ACPI: Clean up acpi_os_map/unmap_memory() to eliminate __iomem. 2014-05-27 18:13:08 +02:00
osl.c ACPI / tables: Move table override mechanisms to tables.c 2016-04-18 23:59:08 +02:00
pci_irq.c x86/ACPI/PCI: Recognize that Interrupt Line 255 means "not connected" 2016-03-09 01:23:35 +01:00
pci_link.c Revert "ACPI, PCI, irq: remove interrupt count restriction" 2016-02-24 13:55:38 +01:00
pci_root.c x86/PCI/ACPI: Fix regression caused by commit 4d6b4e69a2 2015-12-02 02:30:15 +01:00
pci_slot.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
power.c Merge branch 'acpi-pm' 2015-09-01 03:38:43 +02:00
proc.c ACPI: change acpi_sleep_proc_init() to return void 2015-09-15 03:03:15 +02:00
processor_core.c ACPI / processor: Introduce invalid_phys_cpuid() 2015-05-13 23:28:16 +02:00
processor_driver.c ACPI / sleep: move acpi_processor_sleep to sleep.c 2016-02-22 00:53:56 +01:00
processor_idle.c Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
processor_pdc.c ACPI / processor: Introduce invalid_logical_cpuid() 2015-05-13 23:28:14 +02:00
processor_perflib.c Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq' 2015-09-01 15:52:35 +02:00
processor_thermal.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
processor_throttling.c ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses 2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
property.c ACPI / property: fix data node parsing in acpi_get_next_subnode() 2016-03-17 03:06:38 +01:00
reboot.c
resource.c PCI: ACPI: IA64: fix IO port generic range check 2016-03-22 23:07:49 +01:00
sbs.c ACPI / SBS: fix inconsistent indenting inside if statement 2016-01-04 22:14:27 +01:00
sbshc.c Revert "ACPI / SBS: Add 5 us delay to fix SBS hangs on MacBook" 2015-11-16 23:26:45 +01:00
sbshc.h
scan.c ACPI / scan: AMBA bus probing support 2016-02-16 19:58:25 +01:00
sleep.c Merge branches 'pm-avs', 'pm-clk', 'pm-devfreq' and 'pm-sleep' 2016-03-25 00:58:18 +01:00
sleep.h ACPICA: Drop Linux-specific waking vector functions 2016-01-04 22:05:20 +01:00
sysfs.c ACPI / sysfs: correctly check failing memory allocation 2015-10-26 04:57:27 +01:00
tables.c ACPI / tables: Convert initrd table override to table upgrade mechanism 2016-04-18 23:59:09 +02:00
thermal.c linux/thermal.h: rename KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS to DECI_KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS 2015-10-10 11:32:30 +08:00
utils.c ACPI / util: cast data to u64 before shifting to fix sign extension 2016-03-22 01:23:00 +01:00
video_detect.c ACPI: Revert "ACPI / video: Add Dell Inspiron 5737 to the blacklist" 2016-01-23 03:04:59 +01:00
wakeup.c ACPI: Clean up inclusions of ACPI header files 2013-12-07 01:03:14 +01:00