linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: fix keeping track of AMD C1E

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Message-ID: <20100908202923.GA4913@loge.amd.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:29:23 +0200
From:	Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@...glemail.com>
To:	Heinz Diehl <htd@...cy-poultry.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Herrmann3, Andreas" <Andreas.Herrmann3@....com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: fix keeping track of AMD C1E

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:14:05PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 19.07.2010, Borislav Petkov wrote: 
> 
> [Patches]
> > Please boot this on your machine and send me the whole dmesg, as usual.
> 
> Appying these 2 patches to 2.6.35-rc5 didn't help, the machine is stalling
> as usual and several key presses are required to get it to boot.

Can you please boot using acpi_skip_timer_override kernel parameter?
I recently had a chance to test on another Gigabyte mainbaord which
showed similar symptoms as your system. I did not find suspicious
things in HPET or APIC configuration but this kernel option worked
around the problem.

See also https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15289


Thanks,

Andreas
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