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-rw-r--r--drivers/pci/pci.c28
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
index 54858838f09..485cfa9af2e 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
@@ -1578,15 +1578,25 @@ void pci_pme_active(struct pci_dev *dev, bool enable)
pci_write_config_word(dev, dev->pm_cap + PCI_PM_CTRL, pmcsr);
- /* PCI (as opposed to PCIe) PME requires that the device have
- its PME# line hooked up correctly. Not all hardware vendors
- do this, so the PME never gets delivered and the device
- remains asleep. The easiest way around this is to
- periodically walk the list of suspended devices and check
- whether any have their PME flag set. The assumption is that
- we'll wake up often enough anyway that this won't be a huge
- hit, and the power savings from the devices will still be a
- win. */
+ /*
+ * PCI (as opposed to PCIe) PME requires that the device have
+ * its PME# line hooked up correctly. Not all hardware vendors
+ * do this, so the PME never gets delivered and the device
+ * remains asleep. The easiest way around this is to
+ * periodically walk the list of suspended devices and check
+ * whether any have their PME flag set. The assumption is that
+ * we'll wake up often enough anyway that this won't be a huge
+ * hit, and the power savings from the devices will still be a
+ * win.
+ *
+ * Although PCIe uses in-band PME message instead of PME# line
+ * to report PME, PME does not work for some PCIe devices in
+ * reality. For example, there are devices that set their PME
+ * status bits, but don't really bother to send a PME message;
+ * there are PCI Express Root Ports that don't bother to
+ * trigger interrupts when they receive PME messages from the
+ * devices below. So PME poll is used for PCIe devices too.
+ */
if (dev->pme_poll) {
struct pci_pme_device *pme_dev;