RE: 2.6.31.4: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:390 hpet_next_event+0x70/0x80() [occurs when ACPI_PROCESSOR=y]

Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-11-13T18:32:45Z

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 01:38 -0800, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> > Yes. Yes. This is a hardware errata. I have a patch to workaround this and
> > waiting on the errata description to get published..
>
> Can we at least have some PCI quirk or whatever until you can push the
> final workaround out so peoples machines do not explode ?

Its a harmless bug functionality-wise and should not have any side
effect other than triggering the WARN_ON_ONCE in hpet next event code.

Thanks,
Venki