ACPI / scan: No implicit wake notification for buttons
The ACPI device enumeration code in Linux assumes that buttons always
are wakeup devices, so it calls acpi_setup_gpe_for_wake() for them
which leads to undesirable side effects. Namely, that function sets
up implicit device wake notification mechanism for a given GPE if
there is no handler method in the ACPI namespace, which from the
ACPICA's perspective means that there always is a way to handle
that GPE if enabled. However, we don't handle wake notify events
for buttons, so if there are no handler methods for their GPEs in
the namespace, enabling a button GPE at run time leads to a GPE
storm in some cases (the GPE triggers, ACPICA carries out the
implicit wake notification for it which isn't handled, so the
GPE triggers again and so on).
To prevent that from happening use acpi_mark_gpe_for_wake()
instead of acpi_setup_gpe_for_wake() for buttons which will cause
ACPICA to only enable button GPEs if there are handler methods for
the in the namespace.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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