Hi, Sombody reported following BUG while testing kdump. Please find attached the fix. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at arch/i386/kernel/apic.c:447! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c100acc3>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.17-rc4-16M #5) EIP is at setup_local_APIC+0x20/0x1a3 eax: 00000000 ebx: c4e61f88 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000020 esi: 00050014 edi: c4e61f88 ebp: 00000000 esp: c4e61f5c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c4e60000 task=c1389a10) Stack: <0>c4e61f88 c133dd44 c13264c0 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c4e60000 00000000 c1000284 c1002342 c12a6260 Call Trace: <c13264c0> APIC_init_uniprocessor+0xa9/0xd8 <c1000284> init+0x28/0x1f6 <c1002342> ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 <c100025c> init+0x0/0x1f6 <c100025c> init+0x0/0x1f6 <c1000ae5> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 9d 5b 5e c3 a1 18 1c 35 c1 eb e0 56 53 8b 35 30 d0 ff ff a1 20 d0 ff ff c1 e8 18 83 e0 0f 0f a3 05 80 d2 34 c1 19 c0 85 c0 75 08 <0f> 0b bf 01 9b 78 24 c1 c7 05 e0 d0 ff ff ff ff ff ff a1 d0 d0 EIP: [<c100acc3>] setup_local_APIC+0x20/0x1a3 SS:ESP 0068:c4e61f5c <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! ============================================================================= o Kdump second kernel boot fails after a system crash if second kernel is UP and acpi=off and if crash occurred on a non-boot cpu. o Issue here is that MP tables report boot cpu lapic id as 0 but second kernel is booting on a different processor and MP table data is stale in this context. Hence apic_id_registered() check fails in setup_local_APIC() when called from APIC_init_uniprocessor(). o Problem is not seen if ACPI is enabled as in that case boot_cpu_physical_apicid is read from the LAPIC. o Problem is not seen with SMP kernels as well because in this case also boot_cpu_physical_apicid is read from LAPIC. (smp_boot_cpus()). o This patch fixes the problem by reading the boot_cpu_physical_apicid from LAPIC for all the cases hence bringing uniformity. At the same time reading from LAPIC should be more reliable then trusting MP tables. My understanding is that MP tables are anyway becoming a thing of past. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/apic.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~kdump-i386-boot-cpu-physical-apicid-fix arch/i386/kernel/apic.c --- linux-2.6.17-rc4-16M/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~kdump-i386-boot-cpu-physical-apicid-fix 2006-05-17 13:27:44.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-16M-root/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c 2006-05-18 05:11:44.000000000 -0400 @@ -860,12 +860,7 @@ void __init init_apic_mappings(void) printk(KERN_DEBUG "mapped APIC to %08lx (%08lx)\n", APIC_BASE, apic_phys); - /* - * Fetch the APIC ID of the BSP in case we have a - * default configuration (or the MP table is broken). - */ - if (boot_cpu_physical_apicid == -1U) - boot_cpu_physical_apicid = GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID)); + boot_cpu_physical_apicid = GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID)); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC { _