Hi Andrew, The 2.6.26-rc5-mm2 kernel panic's, while booting up on the x86_64 box with the attached .config file. kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:388! invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC last sysfs file: CPU 0 Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5-mm2-autokern1 #1 RIP: 0010:[] [] _node_to_cpumask_ptr+0x54/0x6a RSP: 0000:ffff8100bf683d30 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000040 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff806907c0 RBP: ffff8100bf683d40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8100bf683c90 R10: ffffffff806a30e0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff81000104da58 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8073fac0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff8100bf682000, task ffff8100bf688000) Stack: ffff8100bf683c90 0000000000000001 ffff8100bf683da0 ffffffff8022ee0a 00000000ffffffff 7fffffff00000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff81000104da58 ffff81000104da40 ffff8100bf64e030 Call Trace: [] sched_domain_node_span+0x56/0xcb [] __build_sched_domains+0x1aa/0x64d [] mark_held_locks+0x4a/0x6a [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] do_check_likely+0x9/0x65 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0xb6/0xd6 [] arch_init_sched_domains+0x63/0x71 [] sched_init_smp+0x60/0x119 [] kernel_init+0xf9/0x2bf [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x18d/0x1b8 [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [] restore_args+0x0/0x30 [] up+0x14/0x52 [] kernel_init+0x0/0x2bf [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Code: 00 e8 16 d6 ff ff 48 c7 c0 d8 fc 73 80 eb 2e 31 f6 3b 3d a2 26 53 00 48 c7 c7 c0 07 69 80 40 0f 9d c6 e8 9d 14 1b 00 85 c0 74 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 48 63 c3 48 c1 e0 03 48 03 05 a4 76 60 00 5e 5b c9 RIP [] _node_to_cpumask_ptr+0x54/0x6a RSP ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G D 2.6.26-rc5-mm2-autokern1 #1 Call Trace: [] panic+0xa5/0x163 [] up+0x14/0x52 [] up+0x14/0x52 [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] do_exit+0xc8/0x8b9 [] get_random_bytes+0x20/0x22 [] oops_begin+0x0/0x9b [] die+0x62/0x6b [] do_trap+0x115/0x124 [] do_invalid_op+0xae/0xb7 [] _node_to_cpumask_ptr+0x54/0x6a [] __module_text_address+0x9/0x72 [] __kernel_text_address+0x27/0x35 [] dump_trace+0x2fb/0x349 [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] error_exit+0x0/0xa9 [] _node_to_cpumask_ptr+0x54/0x6a [] sched_domain_node_span+0x56/0xcb [] __build_sched_domains+0x1aa/0x64d [] mark_held_locks+0x4a/0x6a [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] do_check_likely+0x9/0x65 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0xb6/0xd6 [] arch_init_sched_domains+0x63/0x71 [] sched_init_smp+0x60/0x119 [] kernel_init+0xf9/0x2bf [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] mcount_call+0x5/0x35 [] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x18d/0x1b8 [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [] restore_args+0x0/0x30 [] up+0x14/0x52 [] kernel_init+0x0/0x2bf [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL.