Thanks. So this clearly indicates that you are hitting either hardware
bug, or some bug in our HPET handling code.
Adding Ingo and Thomas to CC. Short summary -- Chris (and apparently other
people) are sometimes seeing repeated keypressess when HPET timer is used.
This doesn't happen when alternative clocksource is used.
Full thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/6/100
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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