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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:46:27 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de>
cc: Andrew Drake <zappacky.lists@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Funny problem with 2.6.28: Kernel stalls
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Michael Roth wrote:
> Andrew Drake schrieb:
> > Michael Roth wrote:
> >> The funny part: If I hit any key (on the keyboard connected by USB) the
> >> kernel resumes to normal work until the next stall.
> >>
> > 
> > This sounds a little bit like my old problem... try kernel option nolapic_timer.
> > It worked for me, perhaps it can do the same for you.
> 
> I didn't checked nolapic_timer (yet), but found these small changes to
> the kernel config do the trick for me:
 
Can you please provide the following information from the kernel which
shows these freeze symptoms:

output of: dmesg
output of: cat /proc/timer_list

Thanks,

	tglx