On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > With the patch below, the box should survive and we should see a > > "Spurious HPET timer interrupt on HPET timer..." entry in dmesg. > > That's a first workaround to confirm my theory. I'll look into the > HPET code how we can avoid that at all. Looks like we can't do anything about that in the HPET code itself. Vitaliy, could you try that patch ? Thanks, tglx