The kernel crashes with a message, "kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c:174!"

Issue

• The kernel keeps rebooting with a message, "kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c:174!" if we add "noapic" to the kernel boot cmdline.

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[   30.943004] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c:174!
[   30.943037] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[   30.943055] CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.x86_64 #1
[   30.943111] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 01/22/2018
[   30.943162] RIP: 0010:apic_update_vector+0xa9/0x170
[   30.943201] Code: 00 44 89 63 10 4a 8b 0c e5 40 68 db 86 48 89 c2 48 8d 34 e9 48 8b 14 16 48 85 d2 0f 84 80 00 00 00 48 81 fa 00 f0 ff ff 77 77 <0f> 0b 8b 43 10 89 c6 41 8b 45 04 65 8b 15 65 31 5b 7a 89 d2 48 0f
[   30.943314] RSP: 0018:ffffac7bc64ece38 EFLAGS: 00010087
[   30.943351] RAX: 000000000001cf80 RBX: ffff90f4fdc85980 RCX: ffff90f8cfd40000
[   30.943396] RDX: ffff90ed80070800 RSI: ffff90f8cfd40180 RDI: ffff90f4fdc85800
[   30.943442] RBP: 0000000000000030 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   30.943500] R10: 00098008e2a8eec9 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000000d
[   30.943544] R13: ffff90f4fdc85800 R14: ffff90f43d9ffa00 R15: 0000000000000024
[   30.943587] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff90f8cfbc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   30.943637] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   30.943673] CR2: 00007fe4fa23f008 CR3: 0000000540410004 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[   30.943717] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   30.943760] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   30.943803] Call Trace:
[   30.943822]  <IRQ>
[   30.943854]  ? irq_matrix_alloc+0x82/0x130
[   30.943887]  assign_vector_locked+0xa2/0x170
[   30.943920]  apic_set_affinity+0x6e/0xa0
[   30.943950]  msi_set_affinity+0x6d/0x1a0
[   30.943979]  irq_do_set_affinity+0x53/0x190
[   30.944011]  irq_move_masked_irq+0x99/0xe0
[   30.944041]  __irq_move_irq+0x3b/0x60
[   30.944068]  apic_ack_irq+0x2b/0x30
[   30.944095]  handle_edge_irq+0x72/0x190
[   30.944124]  handle_irq+0x1c/0x30
[   30.944150]  do_IRQ+0x49/0xd0
[   30.944191]  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
[   30.944218]  </IRQ>
[   30.944234] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xda/0x470
[   30.944270] Code: e8 ab ab 98 ff 80 7c 24 0f 00 74 17 9c 58 0f 1f 44 00 00 f6 c4 02 0f 85 4b 03 00 00 31 ff e8 ad c4 9f ff fb 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 <45> 85 f6 0f 88 24 01 00 00 49 63 d6 48 8b 4c 24 10 48 2b 0c 24 48
[   30.944379] RSP: 0018:ffffac7bc6337e58 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffdb
[   30.944426] RAX: ffff90f8cfbf2fc0 RBX: ffffffff878b9f78 RCX: 000000000000001f
[   30.944469] RDX: 0000000734589620 RSI: 000000003d05e2e3 RDI: 0000000000000000
[   30.944513] RBP: ffff90f8cfbfe6a8 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000032780
[   30.944556] R10: 00098008e2a8e62f R11: ffff90f8cfbf1c04 R12: 0000000000000004
[   30.944599] R13: ffffffff878b9da0 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000000000000004
[   30.944966]  ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xb5/0x470
[   30.945308]  cpuidle_enter+0x2c/0x40
[   30.945615]  do_idle+0x268/0x2d0
[   30.945940]  cpu_startup_entry+0x6f/0x80
[   30.946257]  start_secondary+0x187/0x1d0
[   30.946574]  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xd2/0xdb
[   30.946880] Modules linked in: [...]