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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:29:23 +0200
From: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com>
To: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
        Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        "Herrmann3, Andreas" <Andreas.Herrmann3@amd.com>,
        Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: fix keeping track of AMD C1E
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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