000003fffffff] Initmem setup node 1 0000000040000000-0000000138000000 NODE_DATA [0000000137fd9000 - 0000000137ffffff] Initmem setup node 2 0000000138000000-00000001f8000000 NODE_DATA [00000001f095e000 - 00000001f0984fff] Initmem setup node 3 00000001f8000000-0000000238000000 Cannot find 159744 bytes in node 3 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [] __alloc_bootmem_node+0x43/0x96 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.3.6 #1 AMD Dinar/Dinar RIP: e030:[] [] __alloc_bootmem_node+0x43/0x96 .. snip.. [] sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x64/0x178 [] sparse_init+0xe4/0x25a [] paging_init+0x13/0x22 [] setup_arch+0x9c6/0xa9b [] ? printk+0x3c/0x3e [] start_kernel+0xe5/0x468 [] x86_64_start_reservations+0xba/0xc1 [] ? xen_setup_runstate_info+0x2c/0x36 [] xen_start_kernel+0x565/0x56c " so we just disable NUMA scanning by setting numa_off=1. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-and-Tested-by: Andre Przywara Acked-by: Andre Przywara Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ·n͈œ/x