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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/acpi, branch v4.8.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>nfit: fail DSMs that return non-zero status by default</title>
<updated>2016-09-21T16:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-21T16:21:26+00:00</published>
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For the DSMs where the kernel knows the format of the output buffer and
originates those DSMs from within the kernel, return -EIO for any
non-zero status.  If the BIOS is indicating a status that we do not know
how to handle, fail the DSM.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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For the DSMs where the kernel knows the format of the output buffer and
originates those DSMs from within the kernel, return -EIO for any
non-zero status.  If the BIOS is indicating a status that we do not know
how to handle, fail the DSM.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-09-10T16:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-10T16:58:52+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
 "nvdimm fixes for v4.8, two of them are tagged for -stable:

   - Fix devm_memremap_pages() to use track_pfn_insert().  Otherwise,
     DAX pmd mappings end up with an uncached pgprot, and unusable
     performance for the device-dax interface.  The device-dax interface
     appeared in 4.7 so this is tagged for -stable.

   - Fix a couple VM_BUG_ON() checks in the show_smaps() path to
     understand DAX pmd entries.  This fix is tagged for -stable.

   - Fix a mis-merge of the nfit machine-check handler to flip the
     polarity of an if() to match the final version of the patch that
     Vishal sent for 4.8-rc1.  Without this the nfit machine check
     handler never detects / inserts new 'badblocks' entries which
     applications use to identify lost portions of files.

   - For test purposes, fix the nvdimm_clear_poison() path to operate on
     legacy / simulated nvdimm memory ranges.  Without this fix a test
     can set badblocks, but never clear them on these ranges.

   - Fix the range checking done by dax_dev_pmd_fault().  This is not
     tagged for -stable since this problem is mitigated by specifying
     aligned resources at device-dax setup time.

  These patches have appeared in a next release over the past week.  The
  recent rebase you can see in the timestamps was to drop an invalid fix
  as identified by the updated device-dax unit tests [1].  The -mm
  touches have an ack from Andrew"

[1]: "[ndctl PATCH 0/3] device-dax test for recent kernel bugs"
   https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-September/006855.html

* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  libnvdimm: allow legacy (e820) pmem region to clear bad blocks
  nfit, mce: Fix SPA matching logic in MCE handler
  mm: fix cache mode of dax pmd mappings
  mm: fix show_smap() for zone_device-pmd ranges
  dax: fix mapping size check
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Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
 "nvdimm fixes for v4.8, two of them are tagged for -stable:

   - Fix devm_memremap_pages() to use track_pfn_insert().  Otherwise,
     DAX pmd mappings end up with an uncached pgprot, and unusable
     performance for the device-dax interface.  The device-dax interface
     appeared in 4.7 so this is tagged for -stable.

   - Fix a couple VM_BUG_ON() checks in the show_smaps() path to
     understand DAX pmd entries.  This fix is tagged for -stable.

   - Fix a mis-merge of the nfit machine-check handler to flip the
     polarity of an if() to match the final version of the patch that
     Vishal sent for 4.8-rc1.  Without this the nfit machine check
     handler never detects / inserts new 'badblocks' entries which
     applications use to identify lost portions of files.

   - For test purposes, fix the nvdimm_clear_poison() path to operate on
     legacy / simulated nvdimm memory ranges.  Without this fix a test
     can set badblocks, but never clear them on these ranges.

   - Fix the range checking done by dax_dev_pmd_fault().  This is not
     tagged for -stable since this problem is mitigated by specifying
     aligned resources at device-dax setup time.

  These patches have appeared in a next release over the past week.  The
  recent rebase you can see in the timestamps was to drop an invalid fix
  as identified by the updated device-dax unit tests [1].  The -mm
  touches have an ack from Andrew"

[1]: "[ndctl PATCH 0/3] device-dax test for recent kernel bugs"
   https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-September/006855.html

* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  libnvdimm: allow legacy (e820) pmem region to clear bad blocks
  nfit, mce: Fix SPA matching logic in MCE handler
  mm: fix cache mode of dax pmd mappings
  mm: fix show_smap() for zone_device-pmd ranges
  dax: fix mapping size check
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfit, mce: Fix SPA matching logic in MCE handler</title>
<updated>2016-09-10T00:34:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-02T23:27:30+00:00</published>
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The check for a 'pmem' type SPA in the MCE handler was inverted due to a
merge/rebase error.

Fixes: 6839a6d nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The check for a 'pmem' type SPA in the MCE handler was inverted due to a
merge/rebase error.

Fixes: 6839a6d nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / drivers: replace acpi_probe_lock spinlock with mutex</title>
<updated>2016-09-02T20:22:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Pieralisi</name>
<email>lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-16T15:59:53+00:00</published>
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Commit e647b532275b ("ACPI: Add early device probing infrastructure")
introduced code that allows inserting driver specific
struct acpi_probe_entry probe entries into ACPI linker sections
(one per-subsystem, eg irqchip, clocksource) that are then walked
to retrieve the data and function hooks required to probe the
respective kernel components.

Probing for all entries in a section is triggered through
the __acpi_probe_device_table() function, that in turn, according
to the table ID a given probe entry reports parses the table
with the function retrieved from the respective section structures
(ie struct acpi_probe_entry). Owing to the current ACPI table
parsing implementation, the __acpi_probe_device_table() function
has to share global variables with the acpi_match_madt() function, so
in order to guarantee mutual exclusion locking is required
between the two functions.

Current kernel code implements the locking through the acpi_probe_lock
spinlock; this has the side effect of requiring all code called
within the lock (ie struct acpi_probe_entry.probe_{table/subtbl} hooks)
not to sleep.

However, kernel subsystems that make use of the early probing
infrastructure are relying on kernel APIs that may sleep (eg
irq_domain_alloc_fwnode(), among others) in the function calls
pointed at by struct acpi_probe_entry.{probe_table/subtbl} entries
(eg gic_v2_acpi_init()), which is a bug.

Since __acpi_probe_device_table() is called from context
that is allowed to sleep the acpi_probe_lock spinlock can be replaced
with a mutex; this fixes the issue whilst still guaranteeing
mutual exclusion.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: e647b532275b (ACPI: Add early device probing infrastructure)
Cc: 4.4+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Commit e647b532275b ("ACPI: Add early device probing infrastructure")
introduced code that allows inserting driver specific
struct acpi_probe_entry probe entries into ACPI linker sections
(one per-subsystem, eg irqchip, clocksource) that are then walked
to retrieve the data and function hooks required to probe the
respective kernel components.

Probing for all entries in a section is triggered through
the __acpi_probe_device_table() function, that in turn, according
to the table ID a given probe entry reports parses the table
with the function retrieved from the respective section structures
(ie struct acpi_probe_entry). Owing to the current ACPI table
parsing implementation, the __acpi_probe_device_table() function
has to share global variables with the acpi_match_madt() function, so
in order to guarantee mutual exclusion locking is required
between the two functions.

Current kernel code implements the locking through the acpi_probe_lock
spinlock; this has the side effect of requiring all code called
within the lock (ie struct acpi_probe_entry.probe_{table/subtbl} hooks)
not to sleep.

However, kernel subsystems that make use of the early probing
infrastructure are relying on kernel APIs that may sleep (eg
irq_domain_alloc_fwnode(), among others) in the function calls
pointed at by struct acpi_probe_entry.{probe_table/subtbl} entries
(eg gic_v2_acpi_init()), which is a bug.

Since __acpi_probe_device_table() is called from context
that is allowed to sleep the acpi_probe_lock spinlock can be replaced
with a mutex; this fixes the issue whilst still guaranteeing
mutual exclusion.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: e647b532275b (ACPI: Add early device probing infrastructure)
Cc: 4.4+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nd_blk: mask off reserved status bits</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T16:26:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-29T20:59:12+00:00</published>
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The "NVDIMM Block Window Driver Writer's Guide":

    http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DriverWritersGuide-July-2016.pdf

...defines the layout of the block window status register.  For the July
2016 version of the spec linked to above, this happens in Figure 4 on
page 26.

The only bits defined in this spec are bits 31, 5, 4, 2, 1 and 0.  The
rest of the bits in the status register are reserved, and there is a
warning following the diagram that says:

    Note: The driver cannot assume the value of the RESERVED bits in the
    status register are zero. These reserved bits need to be masked off, and
    the driver must avoid checking the state of those bits.

This change ensures that for hardware implementations that set these
reserved bits in the status register, the driver won't incorrectly fail the
block I/Os.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v4.2+
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The "NVDIMM Block Window Driver Writer's Guide":

    http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DriverWritersGuide-July-2016.pdf

...defines the layout of the block window status register.  For the July
2016 version of the spec linked to above, this happens in Figure 4 on
page 26.

The only bits defined in this spec are bits 31, 5, 4, 2, 1 and 0.  The
rest of the bits in the status register are reserved, and there is a
warning following the diagram that says:

    Note: The driver cannot assume the value of the RESERVED bits in the
    status register are zero. These reserved bits need to be masked off, and
    the driver must avoid checking the state of those bits.

This change ensures that for hardware implementations that set these
reserved bits in the status register, the driver won't incorrectly fail the
block I/Os.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v4.2+
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'acpi-extra-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2016-08-06T03:29:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-06T03:29:05+00:00</published>
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Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Two more fixes in ACPI drivers, one in the ACPI EC driver
  (stable-candidate) and one in the ACPI button driver.

  Specifics:

   - An ACPI EC driver fix from the 4.3 cycle may cause the ACPICA's
     method reentrancy limit to be exceeded for a _Qxx method due to a
     large number of concurrent EC operations, so prevent that from
     happening by moving the EC handling into a separate workqueue with
     a limit on the number of concurrently executed work items (Lv
     Zheng)

   - Fix the cleanup code in the ACPI button driver that forgets to
     clear two variables on exit which causes an error to occur on the
     next attmpt to load the driver (Benjamin Tissoires)"

* tag 'acpi-extra-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI / EC: Work around method reentrancy limit in ACPICA for _Qxx
  ACPI / button: remove pointer to old lid_sysfs on unbind
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Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Two more fixes in ACPI drivers, one in the ACPI EC driver
  (stable-candidate) and one in the ACPI button driver.

  Specifics:

   - An ACPI EC driver fix from the 4.3 cycle may cause the ACPICA's
     method reentrancy limit to be exceeded for a _Qxx method due to a
     large number of concurrent EC operations, so prevent that from
     happening by moving the EC handling into a separate workqueue with
     a limit on the number of concurrently executed work items (Lv
     Zheng)

   - Fix the cleanup code in the ACPI button driver that forgets to
     clear two variables on exit which causes an error to occur on the
     next attmpt to load the driver (Benjamin Tissoires)"

* tag 'acpi-extra-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI / EC: Work around method reentrancy limit in ACPICA for _Qxx
  ACPI / button: remove pointer to old lid_sysfs on unbind
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'acpi-ec' and 'acpi-button'</title>
<updated>2016-08-05T14:04:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T14:04:49+00:00</published>
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* acpi-ec:
  ACPI / EC: Work around method reentrancy limit in ACPICA for _Qxx

* acpi-button:
  ACPI / button: remove pointer to old lid_sysfs on unbind
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* acpi-ec:
  ACPI / EC: Work around method reentrancy limit in ACPICA for _Qxx

* acpi-button:
  ACPI / button: remove pointer to old lid_sysfs on unbind
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux</title>
<updated>2016-08-05T13:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T13:48:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6c84239d595dc6ffe39f0f03dae2f64ed200db95'/>
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Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
 "RTC for 4.8

  Cleanups:
   - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup
     rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc
   - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos

  Subsystem:
   - fix wakealarms after hibernate
   - multiples fixes for rctest
   - simplify implementations of .read_alarm

  New drivers:
   - Maxim MAX6916

  Drivers:
   - ds1307: fix weekday
   - m41t80: add wakeup support
   - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant
   - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes
   - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after
     shutdown for QNAP TS-41x
   - s3c: clock fixes"

* tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits)
  rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
  rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week
  rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time
  rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support
  rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver
  rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init()
  rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ
  rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message
  rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device
  rtc: pcf85063: fix year range
  rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy
  rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy
  rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq()
  rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock
  rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one
  rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm
  ...
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Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
 "RTC for 4.8

  Cleanups:
   - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup
     rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc
   - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos

  Subsystem:
   - fix wakealarms after hibernate
   - multiples fixes for rctest
   - simplify implementations of .read_alarm

  New drivers:
   - Maxim MAX6916

  Drivers:
   - ds1307: fix weekday
   - m41t80: add wakeup support
   - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant
   - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes
   - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after
     shutdown for QNAP TS-41x
   - s3c: clock fixes"

* tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits)
  rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
  rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week
  rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time
  rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support
  rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver
  rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init()
  rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ
  rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message
  rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device
  rtc: pcf85063: fix year range
  rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy
  rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy
  rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq()
  rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock
  rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one
  rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / EC: Work around method reentrancy limit in ACPICA for _Qxx</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T00:07:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lv Zheng</name>
<email>lv.zheng@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-03T01:00:14+00:00</published>
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A regression is caused by the following commit:

  Commit: 02b771b64b73226052d6e731a0987db3b47281e9
  Subject: ACPI / EC: Fix an issue caused by the serialized _Qxx evaluations

In this commit, using system workqueue causes that the maximum parallel
executions of _Qxx can exceed 255. This violates the method reentrancy
limit in ACPICA and generates the following error log:

  ACPI Error: Method reached maximum reentrancy limit (255) (20150818/dsmethod-341)

This patch creates a seperate workqueue and limits the number of parallel
_Qxx evaluations down to a configurable value (can be tuned against number
of online CPUs).

Since EC events are handled after driver probe, we can create the workqueue
in acpi_ec_init().

Fixes: 02b771b64b73 (ACPI / EC: Fix an issue caused by the serialized _Qxx evaluations)
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135691
Cc: 4.3+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.3+
Reported-and-tested-by: Helen Buus &lt;ubuntu@hbuus.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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A regression is caused by the following commit:

  Commit: 02b771b64b73226052d6e731a0987db3b47281e9
  Subject: ACPI / EC: Fix an issue caused by the serialized _Qxx evaluations

In this commit, using system workqueue causes that the maximum parallel
executions of _Qxx can exceed 255. This violates the method reentrancy
limit in ACPICA and generates the following error log:

  ACPI Error: Method reached maximum reentrancy limit (255) (20150818/dsmethod-341)

This patch creates a seperate workqueue and limits the number of parallel
_Qxx evaluations down to a configurable value (can be tuned against number
of online CPUs).

Since EC events are handled after driver probe, we can create the workqueue
in acpi_ec_init().

Fixes: 02b771b64b73 (ACPI / EC: Fix an issue caused by the serialized _Qxx evaluations)
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135691
Cc: 4.3+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.3+
Reported-and-tested-by: Helen Buus &lt;ubuntu@hbuus.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2016-08-03T01:08:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2016-08-03T01:08:07+00:00</published>
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of ocfs2

 - various hotfixes, mainly MM

 - quite a bit of misc stuff - drivers, fork, exec, signals, etc.

 - printk updates

 - firmware

 - checkpatch

 - nilfs2

 - more kexec stuff than usual

 - rapidio updates

 - w1 things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (111 commits)
  ipc: delete "nr_ipc_ns"
  kcov: allow more fine-grained coverage instrumentation
  init/Kconfig: add clarification for out-of-tree modules
  config: add android config fragments
  init/Kconfig: ban CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO with allmodconfig
  relay: add global mode support for buffer-only channels
  init: allow blacklisting of module_init functions
  w1:omap_hdq: fix regression
  w1: add helper macro module_w1_family
  w1: remove need for ida and use PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO
  rapidio/switches: add driver for IDT gen3 switches
  powerpc/fsl_rio: apply changes for RIO spec rev 3
  rapidio: modify for rev.3 specification changes
  rapidio: change inbound window size type to u64
  rapidio/idt_gen2: fix locking warning
  rapidio: fix error handling in mbox request/release functions
  rapidio/tsi721_dma: advance queue processing from transfer submit call
  rapidio/tsi721: add messaging mbox selector parameter
  rapidio/tsi721: add PCIe MRRS override parameter
  rapidio/tsi721_dma: add channel mask and queue size parameters
  ...
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of ocfs2

 - various hotfixes, mainly MM

 - quite a bit of misc stuff - drivers, fork, exec, signals, etc.

 - printk updates

 - firmware

 - checkpatch

 - nilfs2

 - more kexec stuff than usual

 - rapidio updates

 - w1 things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (111 commits)
  ipc: delete "nr_ipc_ns"
  kcov: allow more fine-grained coverage instrumentation
  init/Kconfig: add clarification for out-of-tree modules
  config: add android config fragments
  init/Kconfig: ban CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO with allmodconfig
  relay: add global mode support for buffer-only channels
  init: allow blacklisting of module_init functions
  w1:omap_hdq: fix regression
  w1: add helper macro module_w1_family
  w1: remove need for ida and use PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO
  rapidio/switches: add driver for IDT gen3 switches
  powerpc/fsl_rio: apply changes for RIO spec rev 3
  rapidio: modify for rev.3 specification changes
  rapidio: change inbound window size type to u64
  rapidio/idt_gen2: fix locking warning
  rapidio: fix error handling in mbox request/release functions
  rapidio/tsi721_dma: advance queue processing from transfer submit call
  rapidio/tsi721: add messaging mbox selector parameter
  rapidio/tsi721: add PCIe MRRS override parameter
  rapidio/tsi721_dma: add channel mask and queue size parameters
  ...
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