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31 March 2022. Summary of changes for version 20220331:

0) Global changes:

Update all copyright notices to the year 2022. This effe

Import acpica-2022-03-31
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31 March 2022. Summary of changes for version 20220331:

0) Global changes:

Update all copyright notices to the year 2022. This effects all source
modules, as well as utility signons.


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

For the ASL Sleep() operator, issue a warning if the sleep value is
greater than 10 Milliseconds. Quick boottime is important, so warn about
sleeps greater than 10 ms. Distribution Linux kernels reach initrd in 350
ms, so excessive delays should be called out. 10 ms is chosen randomly,
but three of such delays would already make up ten percent of the
boottime.

Namespace: Avoid attempting to walk the Namespace if the Namespace does
not exist.

AML interpreter/iASL compiler: Add new Acpi 6.4 semantics for the
LoadTable and Load operators. DDB_HANDLE is gone, now loadtable returns a
pass/fail integer. Now load returns a pass/fail integer, as well as
storing the return value in an optional 2nd argument.

Headers: Use uintptr_t and offsetof() in Linux kernel builds. To avoid
"performing pointer subtraction with a null pointer has undefined
behavior" compiler warnings, use uintptr_t and offsetof() that are always
available during Linux kernel builds to define ACPI_UINTPTR_T and the
ACPI_TO_INTEGER() and ACPI_OFFSET() macros when building the ACPICA code
in the Linux kernel.

Added support for the Windows 11 _OSI string ("Windows 2021"). Submitted
by superm1.

executer/exsystem: Inform users about ACPI spec violation for the Stall()
operator. Values greater than 100 microseconds violate the ACPI
specification, so warn users about it. From the ACPI Specification
version 6.2 Errata A, 19.6.128 *Stall (Stall for a Short Time)*:
> The implementation of Stall is OS-specific, but must not relinquish
> control of the processor. Because of this, delays longer than 100
> microseconds must use Sleep instead of Stall.


2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

Data Table Compiler/Disassembler: Add support for the APMT table - ARM
Performance Monitoring Unit table. Submitted by @bwicaksononv.

Data Table Compiler/Disassembler: For MADT, add support for the OEM-
defined subtables (Types 0x80-0x7F).

Data Table Compiler: Fixed a problem with support for the SDEV table,
where a subtable Length was not computed correctly.

Data Table Compiler/Disassembler: Add/fix the CFMWS subtable to the CEDT
Acpi table support.

Data Table Compiler/Disassembler: Fix a compile issue with the CEDT and
add template. Submitted by MasterDrogo.

Data Table Compiler/Disassembler: NHLT Changes provided by Piotr Maziarz:
iASL/NHLT: Rename linux specific structures to DeviceInfo to improve
readability of the code.
iASL/NHLT: Fix parsing undocumented bytes at the end of Endpoint.
Undocumented bytes at the end of Endpoint Descriptor can be present
independently of Linux-specific structures. Their size can also vary.
iASL/NHLT: Treat TableTerminator as SpecificConfig. SpecificConfig has 4
bytes of size and then an amount of bytes specified by size. All of the
terminators that I've seen had a size equal to 4, but theoretically it
can vary.

iASL/AcpiExec: Use _exit instead of exit in signal handers (ctrl-C).

iASL: Remove a remark due to excessive output. Removed a remark for
duplicate Offset() operators, due to a user complaint.

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31 March 2021. Summary of changes for version 20210331:

This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads, and
includes all ACPI 6.4 support

1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
ACPI 6.4: i

31 March 2021. Summary of changes for version 20210331:

This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads, and
includes all ACPI 6.4 support

1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
ACPI 6.4: iASL: deprecate DDBHandleObj keyword
Always create namespace nodes using AcpiNsCreateNode(). ACPICA is
allocating an object using kmalloc(), but then frees it using
kmem_cache_free(<"Acpi-Namespace" kmem_cache>). This is wrong.
Fixed a race condition in generic serial bus operation region
handler. Fixed by Hans de Goede.

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

ACPI 6.4: NFIT: add Location Cookie field
ACPI 6.4: HMAT: add new fields/flags
ACPI 6.4: Add new flags in SRAT
ACPI 6.4: add SDEV secure access components
ACPI 6.4: add Csi2Bus resource template
ACPI 6.4: add support for PHAT table
ACPI 6.4: add support for PMTT table
Add disassembly support for the IVRS table. Compilation of the
table is not yet complete. Fixed a potential infinite loop due to
type mismatch. The for-loop is using a UINT8 counter and comparing
the upper limit against a UINT32 AslGbl_ExpectedMessagesIndex
maximum. In the case where AslGbl_ExpectedMessagesIndex is > 255
the counter i will wrap around to zero and the loop will never
exit. I suspect the AslGbl_ExpectedMessagesIndex is never that
high, but fixing this does future proof the code and cleans up
static analysis warnings.Colin King.

iASL/TableCompiler: update it with IORT table E.b revision changes.
From shamiali2008.
iASL/TableCompiler: Add compilation support for the VIOT table.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker.
iASL/TableCompiler: Add compilation support for CEDT table.
Also, update the CEDT template.

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26 March 2020. Summary of changes for version 20200326:


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Performed a code clean-up to prevent build errors on early ver

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26 March 2020. Summary of changes for version 20200326:


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Performed a code clean-up to prevent build errors on early versions of
GCC-10.

Added the NHLT table signature. iASL data table compiler/disassembler
support for this table is coming soon.


2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

AcpiExec: Fixed several problems with the namespace initialization file
(-fi<filename> option). Includes fixes to prevent AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
errors, several seg faults, and enhancements to line parsing within the
init file. In addition, each object found in the init file and it's new
value is displayed, as well as any such entries that do not have a
corresponding name in the namespace. For reference, the syntax for the
various supported data types are presented below:
PCHG 0x777788889999BBBB // Integer
\DEV1.STR1 "XYZ" // String
BUF1 (88 99 AA) // Buffer
PKG1 [0x1111 0x2222] // Package
\BF1 0x7980 // BufferField
RCRV 0x0123456789ABCDEF // Field Unit

iASL: Added a custom iASL macro __EXPECT__(iASL-Error-Code). This macro
can be used anywhere in a given ASL file to configure iASL to expect an
iASL compiler error code on the line where this macro was placed. If the
error code does not exist, an error is generated. This is intended to be
used for ACPICA's ASL test suite, but can be used by ASL developers as
well.

iASL: table compiler: Implemented IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing. The AMD
IVRS table parsing supported only IVHD type 10h structures. Parsing an
IVHD type 11h caused the iasl to report unknown subtable type. Add
necessary structure definition for IVHD type 11h and apply correct
parsing method based on subtable type. Micha? ?ygowski.

iASL: table compiler: Fixed IVRS table IVHD type 10h reserved field name
According to AMD IOMMU Specification Revision 3.05 the reserved field
should be IOMMU Feature Reporting. Change the name of the field to the
correct one. Micha? ?ygowski.

acpiexec: removed redeclaration of AcpiGbl_DbOpt_NoRegionSupport. Patch
based on suggestions by David Seifert and Benjamin Berg.

iASL: table compiler: removed an unused variable (DtCompilerParserResult)
causing linking errors. Patch based on suggestions by David Seifert and
Benjamin Berg.

iASL: table compiler: make LexBuffer static to avoid linking errors in
newer compilers. Patch based on suggestions by David Seifert and Benjamin
Berg.

iASL: fixed type matching between External and Named objects. External
object types can only be expressed with ACPI object type values that are
defined in the ACPI spec. However, iASL uses ACPI object type values that
are local to ACPICA in addition to the values defined in the ACPI spec.
This change implements type matching to map some object type values
specific to ACPICA to ones that are defined in the ACPI spec.

iASL: Dropped the type mismatch compiler error that can arise from
External declarations to a warning. This warning can occur when there is
a type difference between the external declaration and the actual object
declaration (when compiling multiple files/modules simultaneously).

iASL: removed an incorrect error message regarding externals. This change
removes an incorrect error that is emitted when a duplicate external
declaration does not contain a type that opens a scope. This is incorrect
because the duplicate external with conflicting types are already caught
by iASL and it doesn't make any sense to enforce what this conflicting
type should be.

AcpiXtract: fix AX_IS_TABLE_BLOCK_HEADER macro. This macro needs to be
surrounded by parens. Otherwise, a logical statement that applies a
logical not operator to this macro could result in a computation that
applies the operator to the left side of the logical and but not the
right. Reported-by: John Levon <john.levon@joyent.com>

Fixed a problem with the local version of sprint(): On 32-bit, the
provided sprintf() is non-functional: with a size of ACPI_UINT32_MAX,
String + Size will wrap, meaning End < Start, and
AcpiUtBoundStringOutput() will never output anything as a result. The
symptom seen of this was acpixtract failing to output anything -- with a
custom build that included utprint.c. Signed-off-by: John Levon
<john.levon@joyent.com>

iASL: Changed the "PlatformCommChannel" ASL keyword to "PCC", as per the
ACPI specification.


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14 February 2020. Summary of changes for version 20200214:


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Enable sleep button on ACPI legacy wake: Hibernation (S4) is triggered
in a guest when it receives a sleep trigger from the hypervisor. When the
guest resumes from this power state, it does not see the SleepEnabled
bit. In other words, the sleepHibernation (S4) is triggered in a guest
when it receives a sleep trigger from the hypervisor. When the guest
resumes from this power state, it does not see the SleepEnabled bit. In
other words, the sleep button is not enabled on waking from an S4 state.
This causes subsequent invocation of sleep state to fail since the
guest.button is not enabled on waking from an S4 state. This causes
subsequent invocation of sleep state to fail in the guest. Fix this
problem by enabling the sleep button in ACPI legacy wake. From Anchal
Agarwal <anchalag@amazon.com>.

Implemented a new external interface, AcpiAnyGpeStatusSet (). To be used
for checking the status bits of all enabled GPEs in one go. It is needed
to distinguish spurious SCIs from genuine ones when deciding whether or
not to wake up the system from suspend-to-idle.

Generic Makefiles: replace HOST name with ACPI_HOST: Some machines may be
using HOST in their environment to represent the host name for their
machines. Avoid this problem by renaming this variable from HOST to
ACPI_HOST.

MSVC 2017 project files: Enable multiprocessor generation to improve
build performance.

Added a macro to get the byte width of a Generic Address structure. New
ACPI_ACCESS_BYTE_WIDTH is in addition to the existing
ACPI_ACCESS_BIT_WIDTH. From Mika Westerberg.


2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

iASL: Implemented full support for the (optional, rarely used) ReturnType
and ParameterTypesList for the Method, Function, and External operators.
For Method declarations, the number of individual ParameterTypes must
match the declaration of the number of arguments (NumArgs). This also
Fixes a problem with the External operator where extra/extraneous bytes
were emitted in the AML code if the optional ReturnType/ParameterTypes
were specified for a MethodObj declaration.
New error message:
1) Method NumArgs count does not match length of ParameterTypes list

iASL: Implemented detection of type mismatches between External
declarations and named object declarations. Also, detect type mismatches
between multiple External declarations of the same Name.
New error messages:
1) Type mismatch between external declaration and actual object
declaration detected
2) Type mismatch between multiple external declarations detected

iASL: Implemented new error messages for External operators that specify
a ReturnType and/or ParameterTypesList for any object type other than
control methods (MethodObj).
New error messages:
1) Return type is only allowed for Externals declared as MethodObj
2) Parameter type is only allowed for Externals declared as MethodObj

iASL: Implemented two new remark/warning messages for ASL code that
creates named objects from within a control method. This is very
inefficient since the named object must be created and deleted each time
the method is executed.
New messages:
1) Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use
globals or method local variables instead (remark)
2) Static OperationRegion should be declared outside control method
(warning)

iASL: Improved illegal forward reference detection by adding support to
detect forward-reference method invocations.

iASL: Detect and issue an error message for NameStrings that contain too
many individual NameSegs (>255). This is an AML limitation that is
defined in the ACPI specification.
New message:
1) NameString contains too many NameSegs (>255)

acpidump: windows: use GetSystemFirmwareTable API for all tables except
SSDT. By using this API, acpidump is able to get all tables in the XSDT

iASL: Removed unused parser file and updated msvc2017 project files.
Removed the obsolete AslCompiler.y from the repository.

iASL: msvc2017: Fixed macros in the file dependency list to prevent
unnecessary rebuilds. Replace %(Directory) with %(RelativeDir).

Disassembler: Prevent spilling error messages to the output file. All
errors are directed to the console instead. These error messages
prevented re-compilation of the resulting disassembled ASL output file
(.DSL).


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10 January 2020. Summary of changes for version 20200110:


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Updated all copyrights to 2020. This affects all ACPICA source code
modules.


2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

ASL test suite (ASLTS): Updated all copyrights to 2020.

Tools and utilities: Updated all signon copyrights to 2020.

iASL: fix forward reference analysis for field declarations. Fixes
forward reference analysis for field declarations by searching the
parent scope for the named object when the object is not present in
the current scope.

iASL: Improved the error output for ALREADY_EXISTS errors. Now, the
full pathname of the name that already exists is printed.

iASL: Enhance duplicate Case() detection for buffers. Add check for
buffers with no initializer list (these buffers will be filled with
zeros at runtime.)

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13 December 2019. Summary of changes for version 20191213:


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Return a Buffer object for all fields created via the Creat

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13 December 2019. Summary of changes for version 20191213:


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Return a Buffer object for all fields created via the CreateField operator. Previously, an Integer would be returned if the size of the field was less than or equal to the current size of an Integer. Although this goes against the ACPI specification, it provides compatibility with other ACPI implementations. Also updated the ASLTS test suite to reflect this new behavior.

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

iASL: Implemented detection of (and throw an error for) duplicate values for Case statements within a single Switch statement. Duplicate Integers, Strings, and Buffers are supported.

iASL: Fix error logging issue during multiple file compilation -- Switch to the correct input file during error node creation.

iASL: For duplicate named object creation, now emit an error instead of a warning - since this will cause a runtime error.

AcpiSrc: Add unix line-ending support for non-Windows builds.

iASL: Add an error condition for an attempt to create a NameString with > 255 NameSegs (the max allowable via the AML definition).


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18 October 2019. Summary of changes for version 20191018:


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Debugger: added a new command: ?Fields [address space ID]?. This command
dumps the contents of all field units that are defined within the
namespace with a particular address space ID.

Modified the external interface AcpiLoadTable() to return a table index.
This table index can be used for unloading a table for debugging.
ACPI_STATUS
AcpiLoadTable (
ACPI_TABLE_HEADER *Table,
UINT32 *TableIndex))

Implemented a new external interface: AcpiUnloadTable() This new function
takes a table index as an argument and unloads the table. Useful for
debugging only.
ACPI_STATUS
AcpiUnloadTable (
UINT32 TableIndex))

Ported the AcpiNames utility to use the new table initialization
sequence. The utility was broken before this change. Also, it was
required to include most of the AML interpreter into the utility in order
to process table initialization (module-level code execution.)

Update for results from running Clang V8.0.1. This fixes all "dead
assignment" warnings. There are still several "Dereference of NULL
pointer" warnings, but these have been found to be false positive
warnings.


2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

iASL: numerous table compiler changes to ensure that the usage of
yacc/bison syntax is POSIX-compliant.

iASL/disassembler: several simple bug fixes in the data table
disassembler.

Acpiexec: expanded the initialization file (the -fi option) to initialize
strings, buffers, packages, and field units.

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16 August 2019. Summary of changes for version 20190816:

This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

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16 August 2019. Summary of changes for version 20190816:

This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads


1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Modified the OwnerId mechanism to allow for more Owner Ids. The previous
limit was 256 Ids, now it is 4096 Ids. This prevents OWNER_ID_LIMIT
exceptions on machines with a large number of initialization threads,
many CPU cores and nested initialization control methods.

Introduced acpi_dispatch_gpe() as a wrapper around AcpiEvDetectGpe() for
checking if the given GPE (as represented by a GPE device handle and a
GPE number) is currently active and dispatching it (if that's the case)
outside of interrupt context.

Table load: exit the interpreter before initializing objects within the
new table This prevents re-acquiring the interpreter lock when loading
tables

Added the "Windows 2019" string to the _OSI support (version 1903). Jung-
uk Kim

Macros: removed pointer math on a null pointer. Causes warnings on some
compilers and/or tools. Changed ACPI_TO_POINTER to use ACPI_CAST_PTR
instead of using arithmetic.

Fully deployed the ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE macro. This macro was not being used
across all "printf-like" internal functions. Also, cleanup all calls to
such functions (both in 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode) now that they are
analyzed by the gcc compiler via ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE.


2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:

iASL: implemented a new data table compiler flex/bison front-end. This
change is internal and is not intended to result in changes to the
compiled code. This new compiler front-end can be invoked using the -tp
option for now, until the old mechanism is removed.

ASLTS: Implemented a new data table compiler test suite. This test suite
generates all table templates and compile/disassemble/re-compile/binary-
compare each file.

iASL: return -1 if AML files were not generated due to compiler errors

iASL: added a warning on use of the now-legacy ASL Processor () keyword.

iASL: added an error on _UID object declaration that returns a String
within a Processor () declaration. A _UID for a processor must be an
Integer.

iASL: added a null terminator to name strings that consist only of
multiple parent prefixes (^)

iASL: added support to compile both ASL and data table files in a single
command.

Updated the tool generation project files that were recently migrated to
MSVC 2017 to eliminate all new warnings. The new project files appear in
the directory \acpica\generate\msvc2017. This change effectively
deprecates the older project files in \acpica\generate\msvc9.

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