From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758266AbXKUGT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:19:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752101AbXKUGTU (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:19:20 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:45685 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751614AbXKUGTT (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:19:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:18:39 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Kamalesh Babulal Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Balbir Singh , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 - Kernel Panic on IO-APIC Message-Id: <20071120221839.faab108e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4743CC0B.9000508@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20071120204525.ff27ac98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4743CC0B.9000508@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:41:23 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Kernel panic's across different architectures like powerpc, x86_64, powerpc complains about IO-APICs?? > Dentry cache hash table entries: 8388608 (order: 14, 67108864 bytes) > Inode-cache hash table entries: 4194304 (order: 13, 33554432 bytes) > Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 > SMP alternatives: switching to UP code > 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 ACPI or x86 breakage, I guess. Did 'noapic' work?