HP ProBook 6460b requires acpi=off for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or for booting
Issue
- HP ProBook 6460b requires acpi=off for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or for booting
- Following warning or traces are seen on serial console
82.329764] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1} (detected by 2, t=61103 jiffies, g=1696, c=1695, q=0)
[ 82.340405] sending NMI to all CPUs:
[ 82.343978] NMI backtrace for cpu 2
[ 82.347454] CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 3.10.13.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[ 82.355078] Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 6460b/161D, BIOS 68SCE Ver. F.50 08/04/2014
[ 82.363915] task: ffff8801393c38e0 ti: ffff8801393d4000 task.ti: ffff8801393d4000
[ 82.371365] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812c7de4>] [<ffffffff812c7de4>] __bitmap_empty+0x74/0x80
[ 82.379522] RSP: 0018:ffff88013f483de0 EFLAGS: 00000046
[ 82.384813] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000002710 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 82.391918] RDX: 0000000000000c00 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff819e1dc0
[ 82.399024] RBP: ffff88013f483de0 R08: 0000000000000092 R09: 000000000000039b
[ 82.406128] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88013f483b06 R12: ffffffff81926d40
[ 82.413234] R13: ffffffff81926d40 R14: ffff88013f48eda0 R15: ffffffff81926e40
[ 82.420340] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013f480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 82.428396] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 82.434117] CR2: 00007f7836c13d3c CR3: 00000000018d0000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[ 82.441221] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 82.448325] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 82.455429] Stack:
[ 82.457429] ffff88013f483df8 ffffffff8103ae21 ffffffff819e4aa0 ffff88013f483e58
[ 82.464833] ffffffff811012e8 00000001b47bcfa0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
[ 82.472240] ffff8801393d4000 0000000000000002 ffff8801393c38e0 0000000000000000
[ 82.479642] Call Trace:
[ 82.482076] <IRQ>
[ 82.483991] [<ffffffff8103ae21>] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace+0x91/0xa0
[ 82.491034] [<ffffffff811012e8>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x5a8/0x5f0
[ 82.497104] [<ffffffff8106fe67>] update_process_times+0x47/0x80
[ 82.503087] [<ffffffff810be055>] tick_sched_handle.isra.16+0x25/0x60
[ 82.509500] [<ffffffff810be0d1>] tick_sched_timer+0x41/0x60
[ 82.515137] [<ffffffff81089a57>] __run_hrtimer+0x77/0x1d0
[ 82.520600] [<ffffffff810be090>] ? tick_sched_handle.isra.16+0x60/0x60
[ 82.527187] [<ffffffff8108a297>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf7/0x240
[ 82.532996] [<ffffffff81039747>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x60
[ 82.539499] <ffffffff815f4d2f>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3f/0x60
[ 82.545827] [<ffffffff815f369d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
[ 82.551807] <EOI>
[ 82.553720] [<ffffffff8148359f>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x4f/0xc0
[ 82.559984] [<ffffffff814836d5>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xc5/0x200
[ 82.565796] [<ffffffff8101bcae>] arch_cpu_idle+0xe/0x30
[ 82.088] [<ffffffff810b47e5>] cpu_startup_entry+0xf5/0x290
[ 82.576897] [<ffffffff815d0290>] start_secondary+0x1c4/0x1da
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Boots without acpi=off when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is used
- Similar behaviour is seen with Fedora 20
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