Merge tag 'acpi-5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These are ACPICA updates including ACPI 6.3 support among other
  things, APEI updates including the ARM Software Delegated Exception
  Interface (SDEI) support, ACPI EC driver fixes and cleanups and other
  assorted improvements.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20190215
     including ACPI 6.3 support and more:
      * New predefined methods: _NBS, _NCH, _NIC, _NIH, and _NIG (Erik
        Schmauss).
      * Update of the PCC Identifier structure in PDTT (Erik Schmauss).
      * Support for new Generic Affinity Structure subtable in SRAT
        (Erik Schmauss).
      * New PCC operation region support (Erik Schmauss).
      * Support for GICC statistical profiling for MADT (Erik Schmauss).
      * New Error Disconnect Recover notification support (Erik
        Schmauss).
      * New PPTT Processor Structure Flags fields support (Erik
        Schmauss).
      * ACPI 6.3 HMAT updates (Erik Schmauss).
      * GTDT Revision 3 support (Erik Schmauss).
      * Legacy module-level code (MLC) support removal (Erik Schmauss).
      * Update/clarification of messages for control method failures
        (Bob Moore).
      * Warning on creation of a zero-length opregion (Bob Moore).
      * acpiexec option to dump extra info for memory leaks (Bob Moore).
      * More ACPI error to firmware error conversions (Bob Moore).
      * Debugger fix (Bob Moore).
      * Copyrights update (Bob Moore)

   - Clean up sleep states support code in ACPICA (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Rework in_nmi() handling in the APEI code and add suppor for the
     ARM Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) to it (James
     Morse)

   - Fix possible out-of-bounds accesses in BERT-related core (Ross
     Lagerwall)

   - Fix the APEI code parsing HEST that includes a Deferred Machine
     Check subtable (Yazen Ghannam)

   - Use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE for APEI-related debugfs files
     (YueHaibing)

   - Switch the APEI ERST code to the new generic UUID API (Andy
     Shevchenko)

   - Update the MAINTAINERS entry for APEI (Borislav Petkov)

   - Fix and clean up the ACPI EC driver (Rafael Wysocki, Zhang Rui)

   - Fix DMI checks handling in the ACPI backlight driver and add the
     "Lunch Box" chassis-type check to it (Hans de Goede)

   - Add support for using ACPI table overrides included in built-in
     initrd images (Shunyong Yang)

   - Update ACPI device enumeration to treat the PWM2 device as "always
     present" on Lenovo Yoga Book (Yauhen Kharuzhy)

   - Fix up the enumeration of device objects with the PRP0001 device ID
     (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Clean up PPTT parsing error messages (John Garry)

   - Clean up debugfs files creation handling (Greg Kroah-Hartman,
     Rafael Wysocki)

   - Clean up the ACPI DPTF Makefile (Masahiro Yamada)"

* tag 'acpi-5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (65 commits)
  ACPI / bus: Respect PRP0001 when retrieving device match data
  ACPICA: Update version to 20190215
  ACPI/ACPICA: Trivial: fix spelling mistakes and fix whitespace formatting
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: add GTDT Revision 3 support
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: HMAT updates
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: PPTT add additional fields in Processor Structure Flags
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: add Error Disconnect Recover Notification value
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: MADT: add support for statistical profiling in GICC
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: add PCC operation region support for AML interpreter
  efi: cper: Fix possible out-of-bounds access
  ACPI: APEI: Fix possible out-of-bounds access to BERT region
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: SRAT: add Generic Affinity Structure subtable
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: Add Trigger order to PCC Identifier structure in PDTT
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: Adding predefined methods _NBS, _NCH, _NIC, _NIH, and _NIG
  ACPICA: Update/clarify messages for control method failures
  ACPICA: Debugger: Fix possible fault with the "test objects" command
  ACPICA: Interpreter: Emit warning for creation of a zero-length op region
  ACPICA: Remove legacy module-level code support
  ACPI / x86: Make PWM2 device always present at Lenovo Yoga Book
  ACPI / video: Extend chassis-type detection with a "Lunch Box" check
  ..

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diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt b/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt
index eb651a6aa285..30437a6db373 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ upgrade the ACPI execution environment that is defined by the ACPI tables
 via upgrading the ACPI tables provided by the BIOS with an instrumented,
 modified, more recent version one, or installing brand new ACPI tables.
 
+When building initrd with kernel in a single image, option
+ACPI_TABLE_OVERRIDE_VIA_BUILTIN_INITRD should also be true for this
+feature to work.
+
 For a full list of ACPI tables that can be upgraded/installed, take a look
 at the char *table_sigs[MAX_ACPI_SIGNATURE]; definition in
 drivers/acpi/tables.c.