Temporary fix for ACPI (GPE iinterrupts) failure , disable GPE6f interrupts, probably motherboard faulty ACPI implementation (reflash/update BIOS) [[!!You should take action!!]]. Install this in /usr/lib/systemd/system and run systemctl enable disable_gpe6F

disable_gpe6F.service

[Unit]
Description=Disable GPE6F interrupts

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "echo disable > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe6F"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Definitively solved

I am using an Asrock B150M PRO4

Solved this issue with ACPI GPE (GPE stands for General Purpose Event) 0x6F interrupts just flashing the latest BIOS/UEFI version.

I reccomend trying this way as my previous BIOS/UEFI version was too old and probably something mismatched with the Linux kernel.

BE CAREFUL WHILE UPDATING THE BIOS/UEFI , IF EVERYTHING IS WORKING FINE, NO REASON TO UPDATE THE BIOS/UEFI

After you update the BIOS/UEFI, you should disable this systemd service, reboot the system, check dmesg, see the content of /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe6F

you should get:

 0 enabled

You can read this as:

 <number of interrupts recieved from ACPI> [enabled|disabled]

If the number of interrupts received from ACPI is 0, and the operating system is not blocking interrupts (so, it is enabled), everything is fine, you fix'd 👍

What to do

• Disable service:

# systemctl disable disable_gpe6F

• Reboot the system:

# reboot

• After the system rebooted, check that the service is not loaded

$ systemctl status disable_gpe6F

• run dmesg to see last kernel messages

$ dmesg

if no ACPI ERROR or ACPI EXCEPTION or ACPI FAILURE, then everything is fine

• check if interrupts are properly enabled by the kernel

$ cat /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe6F
    0  enabled

• now you should check CPU average usage, and single cores usage. If everything fine, CPU usage should be very low (depending on what you are doing), if it is still under high load, be sure that is the user (you) who are using the resources, and not the kernel

Now your system is working :) Bye

Additional helpful note for potential future readers: if BIOS update does not solve issue, you can either keep this systemd service or add acpi_mask_gpe=0x6F as kernel boot parameter.

In my experience, this issue is reflected in 20-30% of CPU usage for the Linux kworker process or for the System process on a Windows machine.
Also, this approach is useful for any interrupts that might be hogging your CPU, use grep . -r /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ to find out.