p_send_stop+0x46/0x4c [] panic+0x94/0x13e [] sctp_eps_proc_init+0x12/0x34 [] reserve_early+0x30/0x6c [] init_memory_mapping+0x2cd/0x2dc [] setup_arch+0x21f/0x44e [] start_kernel+0x6f/0x2c7 [] _sinittext+0x1cc/0x1d3 it turns out there is overlap between pgtable and bss... in System.map we have ffffffff80d40420 b rsi_table ffffffff80d40620 B krb5_seq_lock ffffffff80d40628 b i.20437 ffffffff80d40630 b xprt_rdma_inline_write_padding ffffffff80d40638 b sunrpc_table_header ffffffff80d40640 b zero ffffffff80d40644 b min_memreg ffffffff80d40648 b rpcrdma_tk_lock_g ffffffff80d40650 B sctp_assocs_id_lock ffffffff80d40658 B proc_net_sctp ffffffff80d40660 B sctp_assocs_id ffffffff80d40680 B sysctl_sctp_mem ffffffff80d40690 B sysctl_sctp_rmem ffffffff80d406a0 B sysctl_sctp_wmem ffffffff80d406b0 b sctp_ctl_socket ffffffff80d406b8 b sctp_pf_inet6_specific ffffffff80d406c0 b sctp_pf_inet_specific ffffffff80d406c8 b sctp_af_v4_specific ffffffff80d406d0 b sctp_af_v6_specific ffffffff80d406d8 b sctp_rand.33270 ffffffff80d406dc b sctp_memory_pressure ffffffff80d406e0 b sctp_sockets_allocated ffffffff80d406e4 b sctp_memory_allocated ffffffff80d406e8 b sctp_sysctl_header ffffffff80d406f0 b zero ffffffff80d406f4 A __bss_stop ffffffff80d406f4 A _end need to round up table_start to PAGE_SIZE. also make the panic more informative. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner «“û5š$x