Do not use unsigned int if there is test for negative number...

See drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
  static unsigned int ignore_ppc = -1;
...
  if (event == CPUFREQ_START && ignore_ppc <= 0) {
       ignore_ppc = 0;
...

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

acpi_penalize_isa_irq() should validate irq before using it to
index the acpi_irq_penalty[] table.

Here's the path I'm concerned about:

    pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource()
    {
	...
	irq = acpi_register_gsi(gsi, triggering, polarity);
	if (irq >= 0)
		pcibios_penalize_isa_irq(irq, 1);

There's no guarantee that acpi_register_gsi() will return an IRQ
within the bounds of acpi_irq_penalty[].

I have not seen a failure I can attribute to this.  However,
ACPI_MAX_IRQS is only 256, and I'm pretty sure ia64 can have
IRQs larger than that.

I think this should go in 2.6.27.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

When EC is in Polling mode, OS will check the EC status continually by using
the following source code:
       clear_bit(EC_FLAGS_WAIT_GPE, &ec->flags);
       while (time_before(jiffies, delay)) {
               if (acpi_ec_check_status(ec, event))
       	            return 0;
               msleep(1);
       }
But msleep is realized by the function of schedule_timeout. At the same time
although one process is already waken up by some events, it won't be scheduled
immediately. So maybe there exists the following phenomena:
     a. The current jiffies is already after the predefined jiffies.
	But before timeout happens, OS has no chance to check the EC
	status again.
     b. If preemptible schedule is enabled, maybe preempt schedule will happen
	before checking loop. When the process is resumed again, maybe
	timeout already happens, which means that OS has no chance to check
	the EC status.

In such case maybe EC status is already what OS expects when timeout happens.
But OS has no chance to check the EC status and regards it as AE_TIME.

So it will be more appropriate that OS will try to check the EC status again
when timeout happens. If the EC status is what we expect, it won't be regarded
as timeout. Only when the EC status is not what we expect, it will be regarded
as timeout, which means that EC controller can't give a response in time.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9823
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11141

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui  <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

On some ASUS laptops the ECDT gives the incorrect command/status & Data I/O
register address.

AK: it seems like the command/data addresses are exchanged.

In such case it will cause that EC device can't be
initialized correctly.
To add the EC dmi table is to fix this issue. If the laptop falls into the
EC dmi table, the EC command/data I/O address will be fixed.

AK: Add comments describing this better

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9399

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
tested-by    : Jan Kasprzak  <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Some devices emit a ACPI_NOTIFY_DEVICE_CHECK while physically unplugging
even if the software undock has already been done and dock_present() check
fails. However, the internal flags need to be cleared (complete_undock()).

Also, even notify userspace if the dock station suddently went away
without proper software undocking.

This happens on a Acer TravelMate 3000

Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Trivial cleanups for ACPI. Fix misspelling in printk(), fix mismerge,
add file header.

AK: removed file header

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Although the necessary data structure was set up, it was never actually
passed in, so data block calls have only been working by sheer chance.

(On Acer laptops. the data block methods we've been calling never look at
the instance value, hence acer-wmi never triggered this before).

f3454ae8104efb2dbf0d08ec42c6f5d0fe9225bc brought this to light.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Add error check after all calls to acpi_ns_get_pathname_length.
Add status return from acpi_ns_build_external_path and check after
all calls.  Add parameter validation to acpi_ut_initialize_buffer.

Reported by and initial patch by Ingo Molnar.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/21/176

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

The DdbHandle returned by Load() does not have its reference count
decremented during unload, leading to a memory leak. Lin Ming.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>