Merge branch 'acpica'

* acpica: (40 commits)
  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
  ACPICA: Update information in MAINTAINERS
  ACPICA: Rename variable to match upstream
  ACPICA: Update version to 20171110
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.2: Additional PPTT flags
  ACPICA: Update linkage for get mutex name interface
  ACPICA: Update mutex error messages, no functional change
  ACPICA: Debugger: add "background" command for method execution
  ACPICA: Small typo fix, no functional change
  ...

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

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];