Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So the range of 1-251 seconds  is not entirely random. It's all in
> that "32-bit HPET range".

DaveJ, I assume it's too late now, and you don't effectively have any
access to the machine any more, but "hpet=disable" or "nohpet" on the
command line might be worth trying if you ever see that piece of
hardware again.

And for posterity, do you have a dmidecode with motherboard/BIOS
information for the problematic machine? And your configuration?

And finally, and stupidly, is there any chance that you have anything
accessing /dev/hpet?

                       Linus
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