Description of problem: Using a Xen Dom0 on x86_64, and running an SMP HVM guest with RHEL-3 kernel-smp results in a kernel panic in the guest OS: Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000 Initializing CPU#1 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at apic.c:298! invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 1 EIP: 0060:[<c0404ac3>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010046 EIP is at setup_local_APIC [kernel] 0x53 (2.4.21-47.ELsmp/i686) eax: 00000000 ebx: ffffffff ecx: 00000100 edx: 00000000 esi: 000000ff edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c2647f98 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c2647000) Stack: 00000001 c03841f8 00000001 00000000 c0402bd1 00000018 00010800 00000000 00000000 00010800 c0402c5a c0129663 00000282 00000d6f ffffffff 00000d43 00000296 00000000 00000282 00000001 c0388e98 00000000 00000246 0000002a Call Trace: [<c0129663>] call_console_drivers [kernel] 0x63 (0xc2647fc4) [<c0129993>] printk [kernel] 0x153 (0xc2647ffc) Code: 0f 0b 2a 01 cc be 2b c0 80 fa 02 74 27 fe ca b8 ff ff ff 0f Kernel panic: Fatal exception In idle task - not syncing Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xen-3.0.2-33 Guest: RHEL-3, Update 8 kernel-smp (2.4.21-47ELsmp/i686) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a RHEL-3 guest, with pae=1, apic=1, acpi=1 and vcpus=4 2. Boot the guest 3. Actual results: Kernel panic Expected results: Boots normally Additional info:
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