From: William Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On some BIOSen, the GPE bit will remain set even if it is disabled,
resulting in a interrupt storm.  This patch clears the bit before disabling
it.

Signed-off-by: William Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Yu, Luming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Moore, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/acpi/events/evgpe.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/acpi/events/evgpe.c~acpi-clear-gpe-before-disabling-it 
drivers/acpi/events/evgpe.c
--- a/drivers/acpi/events/evgpe.c~acpi-clear-gpe-before-disabling-it
+++ a/drivers/acpi/events/evgpe.c
@@ -677,10 +677,22 @@ acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch(struct acpi_gpe_eve
        case ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_METHOD:
 
                /*
-                * Disable GPE, so it doesn't keep firing before the method has 
a
+                * Clear GPE, so it doesn't keep firing before the method has a
                 * chance to run.
                 */
+               status = acpi_hw_clear_gpe(gpe_event_info);
+               if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+                       ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status,
+                                       "Unable to clear GPE[%2X]",
+                                       gpe_number));
+                       return_UINT32(ACPI_INTERRUPT_NOT_HANDLED);
+               }
+               /*
+                * Disable GPE, so it doesn't keep happen again.
+                */
+
                status = acpi_ev_disable_gpe(gpe_event_info);
+
                if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
                        ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status,
                                        "Unable to disable GPE[%2X]",
_
-
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