GPE storm detected , transactions will use polling mode

In my machine i have been experiencing frequent system hang behaviour which i have to stop by hard system boot

OS : Ubuntu 13.10
Hardware Clevo P570WM

CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3970X CPU @ 3.50GHz

Graphics card
GK104M [GeForce GTX 780M]
driver=nouveau

Wireless

Wireless Intel Corporation 7260
driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.11.0-7-generic firmware=22.0.7.0

BIOS
American Megatrends Inc.
version: 4.6.5
date: 03/20/2013
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd



I am trying to diagnose whats in syslogs at time of hang

Here is my ongoing analysis

Till now i have not found solution and problem.

It can be hardware issue
It can be a software issue

I am grouping my syslogs messages at hang time in different posts here on blog and corresponding steps in took.



syslog messages

Sep 14 10:28:55 nanak-P570WM kernel: [ 4855.198902] ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected(9 GPEs), transactions will use polling mode

Read on net about what is GPE storm  , it can be a hardware issue. One of the solution suggested here was to add boot parameter which can tell apci that this is linux machine.

I did following

#Commented as per http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=56323
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

sudo update-grub

Lets see how it goes

Update : It has been more than 24 hours since i had the same issue. Seems things are working with that grub conf change about acpi_osi
Last error i had on 13 Sept 2013 when i changed this setting.

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