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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2010-06-18 17:04:22 +0200
committerJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>2010-06-18 09:36:37 -0700
commitb27759f880018b0cd43543dc94c921341b64b5ec (patch)
tree486e63a80e0f11d93f9f8ee3a5780b5030154cd0 /Documentation
parent7e27d6e778cd87b6f2415515d7127eba53fe5d02 (diff)
downloadlinux-b27759f880018b0cd43543dc94c921341b64b5ec.tar.bz2
PCI/PM: Do not use native PCIe PME by default
Commit c7f486567c1d0acd2e4166c47069835b9f75e77b (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 KamenĂ­k 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: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Jaroslav KamenĂ­k <jaroslav@kamenik.cz> Tested-by: Antoni Grzymala <antekgrzymala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1808f1157f30..82d6aeb5228f 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -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.