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I have used Linux on my PC for a long time. Some time recently, there is a new kernel error message on the text console.

It also appears as a message in red in journalctl -p err. It did not appear like this before.

Question: Why did this change?

Notice: I am writing this very general question, in order to host the answer below.

Notice: ACPI error messages on specific systems might have more specific causes, problems, and solutions. For example, see these two questions:

  1. ACPI BIOS Error / AE_NOT_FOUND
  2. ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND infinitely on startup

My error messages are:

ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT0._GTF] (Node ffff8d859a5caaa0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT0._GTF] (Node ffff8d859a5caaa0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT4._GTF] (Node ffff8d859a5ca758), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node ffff8d859a5ca9b0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT4._GTF] (Node ffff8d859a5ca758), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node ffff8d859a5ca9b0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
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I just want to say it happens only on kernels 4.9.x [and above] on whatever distro.

O.K. so the kernel bisection says the guilty commit is:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5c0875a16039d90f4cdf6b75ae4031daae01d56

commit b5c0875a16039d90f4cdf6b75ae4031daae01d56
Author: Lv Zheng <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Aug 4 16:42:49 2016 +0800

ACPICA: Utilities: Introduce facility to allow Linux to set correct logging levels

So it seems, at least for me, that this issue was always there, but just not reported before. If I correctly understand bug 43229, the root issue is actually a BIOS problem.

I further tested on kernel 4.10-rc8, by reverting the above commit:

doug@s15:~/temp-k-git/linux$ git log --oneline
1dc8c4f Revert "ACPICA: Utilities: Introduce facility to allow Linux to set correct logging levels"
7089db8 Linux 4.10-rc8
...

And indeed upon resume from suspend, those messages no longer appeared.

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You can silence your error by disabling the libata ACPI probing with the kernel parameter libata.noacpi=1.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="libata.noacpi=1"
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