Hi Ido, The below warning should be introduced by this commit at tip/master: commit c00679af441c5be76e195deed2c76fef65a5d102 Author: Ido Yariv CommitDate: Wed Aug 22 10:48:05 2012 +0200 x86/vsmp: Use hypervisor layer for initialization [ 0.000000] tsc: Detected 3200.098 MHz processor [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/tip/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:158 is_vsmp_box+0xa1/0xb0() [ 0.000000] Hardware name: Bochs [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc2-01612-g595b3f3 #292 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0 [ 0.000000] [] ? is_vsmp_box+0xa1/0xb0 [ 0.000000] [] ? apic_is_clustered_box+0x34/0x4c [ 0.000000] [] ? unsynchronized_tsc+0x23/0x71 [ 0.000000] [] ? tsc_init+0xc2/0xed [ 0.000000] [] ? start_kernel+0x3fd/0x47a [ 0.000000] [] ? repair_env_string+0x5b/0x5b [ 0.000000] [] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0x105/0x114 Thanks, Fengguang