To answer the last first: it is a work around. jiffies is the least fine 
grained source of clock and does not really explain what is wrong. And there 
are also other cases that are very similar but cannot be worked around with the 
jiffies setting. So I really would like to get down to the source. Yet, none of 
the systems I got can reproduce this.
As for which of those to use: idle=halt limits the used C-state to C1 only but 
uses the mwait to enter this state while idle=nomwait is supposed to not use 
the mwait call (in theory). So both might be interesting...

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Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls
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