I have been following this bug for a while since I am encountering a very similar problems with a HP dv6408nr laptop (Turion 64 X2 TL-56 CPU).
I have found that the excessive hard interrupts, in my case, are coming from the sdhci driver and the SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter, especially if it is auto-loaded. By blacklisting the device and loading it later by hand, it is only occasionally that this device will then generate excessive interrupts. Before loading the sdhci driver I see that it is states IRQ 11 in the lspci output: # lspci -s 07:05.01 -v 07:05.1 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Presario V6133CL Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at b8000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 But after loading sdhci, lspci states IRQ7 is in use: # lspci -s 07:05.01 -v 07:05.1 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Presario V6133CL Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 7 Memory at b8000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 This is confirmed by /proc/interrupts: # cat /proc/interrupts | grep sdhci 7: 2 821 IO-APIC-fasteoi sdhci:slot0 I also encounter the intermittent RTC issues. I have blacklisted all the RTC modules: rtc_cmos, rtc_core and rtc_lib, but even so, the hwclock command (or any bootscript that calls hwclock) will frequently cause a hard hang. The 3rd issue is an unknown hang when running openSUSE 10.3 -default kernels... The boot option, pollirq, can delay the hang, sometimes for hours. This is most frustrating since it does not occur while running 2.6.22.5-*-vanilla kernels. Hope this helps someone get to the bottom of this... even though my experiences are on a different distribution. -- HP Pavilion dv6103eu laptop - all Ubuntu versions gets frozen during X startup until I specify "noapic" boot option https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89746 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs