Re: 2.6.28-rc6: early panic with boot option "nosmp"

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:02:14PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:13:43PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:28:06AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The boot option "maxcpus=0" or "nosmp" makes kernel 2.6.28-rc6 panic
> > > immediately after booting:
> > > 
> > > PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff8176d6ff error 0 cr2 9
> > 
> > It would be useful if you could look the ffffffff8176d6ff 
> > address up in your System.map or using gdb.
> 
> addr2line -e vmlinux -f 0xffffffff8176d6ff  
> __get_smp_config
> /cc/linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c:607
> 
> 
>  582 /*
>  583  * Scan the memory blocks for an SMP configuration block.
>  584  */
>  585 static void __init __get_smp_config(unsigned int early)
>  586 {  
>  587         struct intel_mp_floating *mpf = mpf_found;
>  588 
>  589         if (x86_quirks->mach_get_smp_config) {
>  590                 if (x86_quirks->mach_get_smp_config(early))
>  591                         return;
>  592         }
>  593         if (acpi_lapic && early)
>  594                 return;
>  595         /*
>  596          * ACPI supports both logical (e.g. Hyper-Threading) and physical
>  597          * processors, where MPS only supports physical.
>  598          */
>  599         if (acpi_lapic && acpi_ioapic) {
>  600                 printk(KERN_INFO "Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration "
>  601                        "information\n");
>  602                 return;
>  603         } else if (acpi_lapic)
>  604                 printk(KERN_INFO "Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) "
>  605                        "configuration information\n");
>  606 
>  607         printk(KERN_INFO "Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.%d\n",
>  608                mpf->mpf_specification);
> 
> The exception raised on dereferencing mpf or mpf_found.

I just confirmed this with
                early_printk("mpf=%p\n", mpf);
which shows mpf to be NULL.