Hi Andrew, The 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 kernel panics while bootup on 32 way, x86_64 machine. passing noapic as the command line parameter, boots up the machine fine. kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:355! invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP last sysfs file: CPU 24 Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5-mm1-autotest #1 RIP: 0010:[] [] add_pin_to_irq+0x7a/0x90 RSP: 0018:ffff81061e4cbb60 EFLAGS: 00010216 RAX: 00000000000000f0 RBX: 00000000000000f0 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: 00000000000000f0 RBP: 0000000000000006 R08: 0000000000000018 R09: 0000000000000006 R10: 0000000000000008 R11: ffffffff803948e6 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000018 R15: ffff81061e4cbc04 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff810bfe7be5c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff81061e4ca000, task ffff81032e4b96d0) Stack: 0000000000000006 ffffffff8021ba6e 00000000000000f0 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff81061e4cbc00 ffffffff80218991 00000000000000f0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffffffff80218a1a Call Trace: [] io_apic_set_pci_routing+0x7e/0xb0 [] mp_register_gsi+0xb1/0xd0 [] acpi_register_gsi+0x6a/0x70 [] acpi_pci_irq_enable+0x14f/0x220 [] acpi_pci_allocate_irq+0x0/0x4c [] do_pci_enable_device+0x4a/0x70 [] __pci_enable_device_flags+0x51/0x60 [] tg3_init_one+0x58/0x1640 [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [] set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0xc2/0xf0 [] pci_device_probe+0xe7/0x130 [] driver_probe_device+0x96/0x1a0 [] __driver_attach+0x89/0x90 [] __driver_attach+0x0/0x90 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x4d/0x80 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0xc8/0xf0 [] bus_add_driver+0xae/0x220 [] driver_register+0x56/0x130 [] __pci_register_driver+0x68/0xb0 [] tg3_init+0x0/0x20 [] kernel_init+0x153/0x320 [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [] kernel_init+0x0/0x320 [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Code: 89 05 27 88 43 00 7f 29 48 0f bf c1 48 8d 14 00 48 c1 e0 03 48 29 d0 48 8d 90 00 44 74 80 66 89 32 66 44 89 42 02 48 83 c4 08 c3 <0f> 0b eb fe 66 90 48 c7 c7 08 7d 5e 80 31 c0 e8 72 7b 01 00 66 RIP [] add_pin_to_irq+0x7a/0x90 RSP ---[ end trace 5a53b6247c28d358 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G D 2.6.26-rc5-mm1-autotest #1 Call Trace: [] panic+0x86/0x170 [] printk+0x4e/0x60 [] do_exit+0x770/0x780 [] oops_end+0x87/0x90 [] do_invalid_op+0x86/0xa0 [] add_pin_to_irq+0x7a/0x90 [] vt_console_print+0x224/0x2f0 [] dummycon_dummy+0x0/0x10 [] error_exit+0x0/0x51 [] acpi_pci_allocate_irq+0x0/0x4c [] add_pin_to_irq+0x7a/0x90 [] io_apic_set_pci_routing+0x7e/0xb0 [] mp_register_gsi+0xb1/0xd0 [] acpi_register_gsi+0x6a/0x70 [] acpi_pci_irq_enable+0x14f/0x220 [] acpi_pci_allocate_irq+0x0/0x4c [] do_pci_enable_device+0x4a/0x70 [] __pci_enable_device_flags+0x51/0x60 [] tg3_init_one+0x58/0x1640 [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [] set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0xc2/0xf0 [] pci_device_probe+0xe7/0x130 [] driver_probe_device+0x96/0x1a0 [] __driver_attach+0x89/0x90 [] __driver_attach+0x0/0x90 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x4d/0x80 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0xc8/0xf0 [] bus_add_driver+0xae/0x220 [] driver_register+0x56/0x130 [] __pci_register_driver+0x68/0xb0 [] tg3_init+0x0/0x20 [] kernel_init+0x153/0x320 [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [] kernel_init+0x0/0x320 [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL.