On some of the new DELL servers acpi_pad deadlock tries to kill power_saving threads on RHEL 6.2

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • When server is rebooted , all the cpu's seems to be occupied by the process "power_saving" and "watchdog".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

  • ACPI

  • DELL servers.

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