From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx> Following kernel panic is observed when doing kdump/kexec on qemu-kvm VMs that uses MPTABLE, not ACPI MADT, and supports x2apic: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 MPTABLE: OEM ID: BOCHSCPU MPTABLE: Product ID: 0.1 MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffff5fc020 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 25e15067 P4D 25e15067 PUD 25e17067 PMD 25e18067 PTE 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.14.10-300.fc35.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1.fc35 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:native_apic_mem_read+0x2/0x10 Code: 14 25 20 cd e3 82 c3 90 bf 30 08 00 00 ff 14 25 18 cd e3 82 c3 cc cc cc 89 ff 89 b7 00 c0 5f ff c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 89 ff <8b> 87 00 c0 5f ff c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 0 RSP: 0000:ffffffff82e03e18 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: ffffffff81064840 RBX: ffffffffff240b6c RCX: ffffffff82f17428 RDX: c0000000ffffdfff RSI: 00000000ffffdfff RDI: 0000000000000020 RBP: ffff888023200000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff82e03c50 R10: ffffffff82e03c48 R11: ffffffff82f47468 R12: ffffffffff240b40 R13: ffffffffff200b30 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000000000d4 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8365b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffffffff5fc020 CR3: 0000000025e10000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 Call Trace: ? read_apic_id+0x15/0x30 ? register_lapic_address+0x76/0x97 ? default_get_smp_config+0x28b/0x42d ? dmi_check_system+0x1c/0x60 ? acpi_boot_init+0x1d/0x4c3 ? setup_arch+0xb37/0xc2a ? slab_is_available+0x5/0x10 ? start_kernel+0x61/0x980 ? load_ucode_bsp+0x4c/0xcd ? secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb Modules linked in: CR2: ffffffffff5fc020 random: get_random_bytes called from oops_exit+0x35/0x60 with crng_init=0 ---[ end trace c9e569df3bdbefd3 ]--- It turns out MPTABLE doesn't play well with pre-enabled x2apic mode, this series extend the apic driver interface and let MPTABLE parse probe the driver properly. This can be easily reproduced with qemu-kvm, use -no-acpi and enable x2apic, so x2apic with MPTABLE will be in use, then trigger kdump/kexec. Kairui Song (2): x86, apic: add a more generic early_probe x86/mpparse, kexec: probe apic driver early for x2apic arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 6 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_64.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c | 8 +++++++- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c | 8 +++++++- arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c | 4 +++- 5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.35.2 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec