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Commit b27759f8 authored by Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar Rafael J. Wysocki Committed by Jesse Barnes
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PCI/PM: Do not use native PCIe PME by default 

Commit c7f48656
(PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driver) causes the native PCIe
PME signaling to be used by default, if the BIOS allows the kernel to
control the standard configuration registers of PCIe root ports.
However, the native PCIe PME is coupled to the native PCIe hotplug
and calling pcie_pme_acpi_setup() makes some BIOSes expect that
the native PCIe hotplug will be used as well.  That, in turn, causes
problems to appear on systems where the PCIe hotplug driver is not
loaded.  The usual symptom, as reported by Jaroslav Kameník and
others, is that the ACPI GPE associated with PCIe hotplug keeps
firing continuously causing kacpid to take substantial percentage
of CPU time.

To work around this issue, change the default so that the native
PCIe PME signaling is only used if directly requested with the help
of the pcie_pme= command line switch.

Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15924

 , which is
a listed regression from 2.6.33.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: default avatarJaroslav Kameník <jaroslav@kamenik.cz>
Tested-by: default avatarAntoni Grzymala <antekgrzymala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
parent 7e27d6e7

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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@@ -2048,7 +2048,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 
			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.



	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:

		off	Do not use native PCIe PME signaling.

			Format: {auto|force}[,nomsi]

		auto	Use native PCIe PME signaling if the BIOS allows the

			kernel to control PCIe config registers of root ports.

		force	Use native PCIe PME signaling even if the BIOS refuses

			to allow the kernel to control the relevant PCIe config

			registers.

drivers/pci/pcie/pme/pcie_pme.c

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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ 
 * being registered.  Consequently, the interrupt-based PCIe PME signaling will

 * not be used by any PCIe root ports in that case.

 */

static bool pcie_pme_disabled;

static bool pcie_pme_disabled = true;



/*

 * The PCI Express Base Specification 2.0, Section 6.1.8, states the following:
@@ -64,12 +64,19 @@ bool pcie_pme_msi_disabled; 


static int __init pcie_pme_setup(char *str)

{

	if (!strcmp(str, "off"))

		pcie_pme_disabled = true;

	else if (!strcmp(str, "force"))

	if (!strncmp(str, "auto", 4))

		pcie_pme_disabled = false;

	else if (!strncmp(str, "force", 5))

		pcie_pme_force_enable = true;

	else if (!strcmp(str, "nomsi"))



	str = strchr(str, ',');

	if (str) {

		str++;

		str += strspn(str, " \t");

		if (*str && !strcmp(str, "nomsi"))

			pcie_pme_msi_disabled = true;

	}



	return 1;

}

__setup("pcie_pme=", pcie_pme_setup);