Hi, I was trying the latest tip kernel and I am seeing the following message. After some more logs the machine does not proceed. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c:47 clockevent_delta2ns+0x79/0x90() Hardware name: System x3850 X5 -[71455RQ]- Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0-rc4-tip #3 Call Trace: [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [] clockevent_delta2ns+0x79/0x90 [] calibrate_APIC_clock+0x16e/0x377 [] setup_boot_APIC_clock+0x59/0x7e [] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x1f1/0x205 [] kernel_init+0x1b6/0x29a [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [] ? parse_early_options+0x20/0x20 [] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]--- APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer Performance Events: PEBS fmt1+, Nehalem events, Intel PMU driver. CPU erratum AAJ80 worked around CPUID marked event: 'bus cycles' unavailable ... version: 3 ... bit width: 48 ... generic registers: 4 ... value mask: 0000ffffffffffff ... max period: 000000007fffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 3 ... event mask: 000000070000000f NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 APIC never delivered??? APIC delivery error (ef). #2 APIC never delivered??? APIC delivery error (ef). #3 ------------------------------------------------------- Logs and config attached for the details. Regards, Nikunj