[Trusty SRU] Improve and match PCI ASPM behaviours to Windows

Alex Hung alex.hung at canonical.com
Fri Apr 24 06:55:24 UTC 2015


SRU Justification: 

Impact: 
 ACPI's FADT has a flag "PCIe ASPM Controls" is defined "If set, indicates to
 OSPM that it must not enable OSPM ASPM control on this platform." It means
 OS should leave ASPM configurated by BIOS, not OS should disable ASPM.

Fix:
 This patch changes ASPM behaviours to leave it is instead of disabling
 it when FADT sets "PCIe ASPM Controls". This also matches Windows'
 behaviours.

The commit is 387d37577fdd05e9472c20885464c2a53b3c945f in upstream kernel

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1441335




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