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 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: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Jaroslav Kameník <jaroslav@kamenik.cz>
Tested-by: Antoni Grzymala <antekgrzymala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1808f1157f3..82d6aeb5228 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.