HP ProBook 6460b requires acpi=off for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or for booting

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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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