4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1e90a13d0c3dc94512af1ccb2b6563e8297838fa upstream. The recent changes, which forced the registration of the boot cpu on UP systems, which do not have ACPI tables, have been fixed for systems w/o local APIC, but left a wreckage for systems which have neither ACPI nor mptables, but the CPU has an APIC, e.g. virtualbox. The boot process crashes in prefill_possible_map() as it wants to register the boot cpu, which needs to access the local apic, but the local APIC is not yet mapped. There is no reason why init_apic_mapping() can't be invoked before prefill_possible_map(). So instead of playing another silly early mapping game, as the ACPI/mptables code does, we just move init_apic_mapping() before the call to prefill_possible_map(). In hindsight, I should have noticed that combination earlier. Sorry for the churn (also in stable)! Fixes: ff8560512b8d ("x86/boot/smp: Don't try to poke disabled/non-existent APIC") Reported-and-debugged-by: Michal Necasek <michal.necasek@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@xxxxxx> Cc: prarit@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: michael.thayer@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: knut.osmundsen@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: frank.mehnert@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1610282114380.5053@nanos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -1222,11 +1222,16 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) if (smp_found_config) get_smp_config(); + /* + * Systems w/o ACPI and mptables might not have it mapped the local + * APIC yet, but prefill_possible_map() might need to access it. + */ + init_apic_mappings(); + prefill_possible_map(); init_cpu_to_node(); - init_apic_mappings(); io_apic_init_mappings(); kvm_guest_init(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html