Hi Andrew,
Do you have CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y?
I rebuilt with all the PCI hotplug stuff enabled. dmesg output suggests I don't have this hardware: pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 fakephp: Fake PCI Hot Plug Controller Driver cpqphp: Compaq Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.9.8 acpiphp: ACPI Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.5 acpiphp_ibm: ibm_find_acpi_device: Failed to get device information<3>acpiphp_ibm: ibm_find_acpi_device: Failed to get device information<3>acpiphp_ibm: ibm_acpiphp_init: acpi_walk_namespace failed cpcihp_generic: Generic port I/O CompactPCI Hot Plug Driver version: 0.1 cpcihp_generic: not configured, disabling. shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 I still get: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 9e82ee96 printing eip: c13d029f *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] 4K_STACKS PREEMPT last sysfs file: /block/md0/dev Modules linked in: speedstep_centrino cpufreq_stats freq_table cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_performance cpufreq_conservative video thermal sony_acpi processor fan container button battery asus_acpi ac vfat fat nls_utf8 ntfs dm_mod sr_mod sbp2 parport_pc lp parport snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer ipw2200 snd soundcore rtc ata_piix libata 8139cp 8139too mii ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt snd_page_alloc sdhci mmc_core ohci1394 ieee1394 scsi_mod pcspkr ehci_hcd uhci_hcd joydev CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c13d029f>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010203 (2.6.17-mm2 #4) EIP is at cpufreq_register_driver+0x16/0x129 eax: f8acefe0 ebx: c1f9edbc ecx: f76bd000 edx: 00000000 esi: f8acf380 edi: f8acf380 ebp: f76bded4 esp: f76bded0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 2589, ti=f76bd000 task=f7bd4370 task.ti=f76bd000) Stack: f8a97053 f76bdfb4 c1030e07 00000016 00000370 c1231564 c1231564 00000530 00000000 00000003 f8acf380 f8c1a308 f8c1a1f0 f8c1a2e0 f7790b94 f8c1ae48 00000017 00000015 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: <c10036b9> show_stack_log_lvl+0x8b/0x96 <c1003807> show_registers+0x143/0x1af <c1003cb9> die+0x176/0x251 <c1010f7e> do_page_fault+0x3c2/0x4b4 <c1002ec9> error_code+0x39/0x40 <c1030e07> sys_init_module+0x1425/0x1586 <c1002c91> sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79 Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <00> a5 c2 0f 17 a7 47 0e c1 a5 c2 0f 17 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 EIP: [<c13d029f>] cpufreq_register_driver+0x16/0x129 SS:ESP 0068:f76bded0 acpi_processor-0758 [97] processor_preregister_: Error while parsing _PSD domain information. Assuming no coordination BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 9e7c2e96 printing eip: c13d029f *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#2] 4K_STACKS PREEMPT last sysfs file: /block/md0/dev Modules linked in: acpi_cpufreq speedstep_centrino cpufreq_stats freq_table cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_performance cpufreq_conservative video thermal sony_acpi processor fan container button battery asus_acpi ac vfat fat nls_utf8 ntfs dm_mod sr_mod sbp2 parport_pc lp parport snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer ipw2200 snd soundcore rtc ata_piix libata 8139cp 8139too mii ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt snd_page_alloc sdhci mmc_core ohci1394 ieee1394 scsi_mod pcspkr ehci_hcd uhci_hcd joydev CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c13d029f>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010203 (2.6.17-mm2 #4) EIP is at cpufreq_register_driver+0x16/0x129 eax: f8c1dd60 ebx: c1f9e9b0 ecx: f7651000 edx: 00000000 esi: f8c1de00 edi: f8c1de00 ebp: f7651ed4 esp: f7651ed0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 2591, ti=f7651000 task=c1ed9930 task.ti=f7651000) Stack: f8c2006f f7651fb4 c1030e07 00000017 00000398 c1231564 c1231564 00000500 00000001 00000002 f8c1de00 f8c19e34 f8c19d1c f8c19e0c f75ef404 f8c1a7a4 00000018 00000016 00000008 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: <c10036b9> show_stack_log_lvl+0x8b/0x96 <c1003807> show_registers+0x143/0x1af <c1003cb9> die+0x176/0x251 <c1010f7e> do_page_fault+0x3c2/0x4b4 <c1002ec9> error_code+0x39/0x40 <c1030e07> sys_init_module+0x1425/0x1586 <c1002c91> sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79 Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <00> a5 c2 0f 17 a7 47 0e c1 a5 c2 0f 17 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 EIP: [<c13d029f>] cpufreq_register_driver+0x16/0x129 SS:ESP 0068:f7651ed0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html