Kernel panic occured at acpi_pci_register_driver in loading acpiphp module.

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Issue

  • Kernel panic occured at acpi_pci_register_driver in loading acpiphp module.
acpiphp: ACPI Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 746e756f
 printing eip:
c01f1aa7
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP 
Modules linked in: acpiphp parport_pc lp parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core sunrpc mptctl vsock(U) vmmemctl(U) md5 ipv6 dm_mirror vmci(U) pcnet32 mii floppy vmxnet(U) ext3 jbd dm_mod mptscsih mptsas scsi_transport_spi mptspi mptfc mptscsi mptbase sd_mod scsi_mod
CPU:    1
EIP:    0060:[<c01f1aa7>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010206   (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) 
EIP is at acpi_pci_register_driver+0x17/0x4b
eax: 746e756f   ebx: c0328a48   ecx: f2233fac   edx: f8c84d95
esi: f8c87c38   edi: 00000000   ebp: f2233000   esp: f2233f8c
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 8330, threadinfo=f2233000 task=f46dec70)
Stack: c0328a48 f8c87c80 c0328a28 f89ac23b f89ac006 c0328a48 f89ac216 f8c84d95 
       f8c84d20 c0138452 08bfd5e8 08bf6de8 004debaa c02d4703 08bfd5e8 00009158 
       08bf6de8 08bf6de8 004debaa bfe69638 00000080 0000007b 0000007b 00000080 
Call Trace:
 [<f89ac23b>] acpiphp_glue_init+0x19/0x23 [acpiphp]
 [<f89ac006>] init_acpi+0x6/0x24 [acpiphp]
 [<f89ac216>] acpiphp_init+0x1e/0x2a [acpiphp]
 [<c0138452>] sys_init_module+0xf8/0x21a
 [<c02d4703>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: ff eb 0e e8 e4 fe ff ff 89 d8 e8 48 65 f5 ff 31 c0 5b c3 90 57 31 ff 83 3d c8 df 44 c0 00 56 89 c6 b8 c8 df 44 c0 53 74 07 8b 00 <83> 38 00 eb f7 89 30 31 c0 83 7e 04 00 74 21 8b 1d d4 90 33 c0 
 <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • VMWare
  • acpi=off kernel option

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