On Nov 21, 2007 10:29 AM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:52:26 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:41:23 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > >> ACPI: Core revision 20070126 > > >> ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > > >> Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the > > >> 'noapic' kernel parameter
I seen an identical error. > > > ACPI or x86 breakage, I guess. > > > > > > Did 'noapic' work? > > > > Passing noapic works, > > OK. Not for me. I get a similar oops, but then the kernel panics > > but the kernel oops's > > > > [ 97.161103] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > > 0000000000000009 RIP: > > [ 97.193973] [<ffffffff802341df>] cpu_to_allnodes_group+0x69/0x7c [snip] > urgh, mess. Enabling frame pointers might help here. CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y The oops/panic that happens with noapic: [ 35.866758] Initializing CPU#3 [ 35.868769] Stuck ?? [ 35.874043] Inquiring remote APIC #3... [ 35.877896] ... APIC #3 ID: 03000000 [ 35.881523] ... APIC #3 VERSION: 80050010 [ 35.885587] ... APIC #3 SPIV: 000001ff [ 35.889390] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 35.892375] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000009 RIP: [ 35.897868] [<ffffffff8022fc5b>] cpu_to_allnodes_group+0x4b/0x60 [ 35.906464] PGD 0 [ 35.908523] Oops: 0000 [1] SMP [ 35.911757] last sysfs file: [ 35.914740] CPU 0 [ 35.916798] Modules linked in: [ 35.919990] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 #2 [ 35.925914] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8022fc5b>] [<ffffffff8022fc5b>] cpu_to_allnodes_group+0x4b/0x60 [ 35.934734] RSP: 0000:ffff81011ff2bdb0 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 35.940053] RAX: ffffffff8084d870 RBX: ffff810001005810 RCX: 0000000000000004 [ 35.947188] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff81011ff26f68 RDI: ffff81011ff2bdb0 [ 35.954323] RBP: ffff81011ff2bdd0 R08: 2222222222222222 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 35.961457] R10: ffff81007ff1c200 R11: 0000000000000200 R12: ffff810001005800 [ 35.968592] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 35.975727] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff807d4000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 35.983951] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 35.989701] CR2: 0000000000000009 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006a0 [ 35.996836] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 36.003971] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 36.011105] Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo FFFF81011FF2A000, task FFFF81007FF2A000) [ 36.019191] Stack: 0000000000000000 ffffffff807e8f98 0000000000000000 ffff810001005800 [ 36.027373] ffff81011ff2be80 ffffffff80230580 ffffffff8084d640 ffffffff8084d6e0 [ 36.034922] ffffffff8084d780 ffffffff8084d800 ffffffffffffffff ffff81011ff26f68 [ 36.042247] Call Trace: [ 36.044929] [<ffffffff80230580>] build_sched_domains+0x460/0x820 [ 36.051701] [<ffffffff805cf489>] mutex_lock_nested+0x199/0x2e0 [ 36.057624] [<ffffffff80230991>] arch_init_sched_domains+0x51/0x60 [ 36.063895] [<ffffffff8080e422>] sched_init_smp+0x22/0xe0 [ 36.069385] [<ffffffff80806825>] smp_cpus_done+0x25/0x30 [ 36.074791] [<ffffffff807fb739>] kernel_init+0x109/0x350 [ 36.080196] [<ffffffff8025a34f>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xbf/0x160 [ 36.086032] [<ffffffff805d03d2>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a [ 36.092303] [<ffffffff8025a34f>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xbf/0x160 [ 36.098141] [<ffffffff8020cbc8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [ 36.103113] [<ffffffff8020c2df>] restore_args+0x0/0x30 [ 36.108345] [<ffffffff807fb630>] kernel_init+0x0/0x350 [ 36.113750] [<ffffffff8020cbbe>] child_rip+0x0/0x12 [ 36.118722] [ 36.120236] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 36.124170] [ 36.124170] Code: 48 03 42 08 48 89 03 48 83 c4 18 89 c8 5b c9 c3 0f 1f 44 00 [ 36.133640] RIP [<ffffffff8022fc5b>] cpu_to_allnodes_group+0x4b/0x60 [ 36.140116] RSP <ffff81011ff2bdb0> [ 36.143619] CR2: 0000000000000009 [ 36.146952] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! (gdb) list *0xffffffff8022fc5b 0xffffffff8022fc5b is in cpu_to_allnodes_group (kernel/sched.c:6073). 6068 6069 cpus_and(nodemask, nodemask, *cpu_map); 6070 group = first_cpu(nodemask); 6071 6072 if (sg) 6073 *sg = &per_cpu(sched_group_allnodes, group); 6074 return group; 6075 } 6076 6077 static void init_numa_sched_groups_power(struct sched_group *group_head) Hope this stack trace is better. Torsten - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html