This crash:

[    0.891983] calling  cache_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1ee @ 1
[    0.897251] initcall cache_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1ee returned 0 after 405 usecs
[    0.904019] calling  mce_init_device+0x0/0x242 @ 1
[    0.909124] initcall mce_init_device+0x0/0x242 returned 0 after 347 usecs
[    0.915815] calling  apm_init+0x0/0x38d @ 1
[    0.919967] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[    0.926813] general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
[    0.927269] last sysfs file:
[    0.927269] Modules linked in:
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[    0.927269] Pid: 271, comm: kapmd Not tainted (2.6.31-rc3-00100-gd520da1-dirty #311) System Product Name
[    0.927269] EIP: 00c0:[<000082b2>] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0
[    0.927269] EIP is at 0x82b2
[    0.927269] EAX: 0000530e EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000102 EDX: 00000000
[    0.927269] ESI: 00000000 EDI: f6a4bf44 EBP: 67890000 ESP: f6a4beec
[    0.927269]  DS: 00c8 ES: 0000 FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[    0.927269] Process kapmd (pid: 271, ti=f6a4a000 task=f7142280 task.ti=f6a4a000)
[    0.927269] Stack:
[    0.927269]  0000828d 02160000 00b88092 f6a4bf3c c102a63d 00000060 f6a4bf3c f6a4bf44
[    0.927269] <0> 0000007b 0000007b 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 560aae9e 00000000
[    0.927269] <0> 00000200 f705fd74 00000000 c102af70 f6a4bf60 c102a6ec 0000530e 00000000
[    0.927269] Call Trace:
[    0.927269]  [<c102a63d>] ? __apm_bios_call_simple+0x7d/0x110
[    0.927269]  [<c102af70>] ? apm+0x0/0x6a0
[    0.927269]  [<c102a6ec>] ? apm_bios_call_simple+0x1c/0x50
[    0.927269]  [<c102b3f5>] ? apm+0x485/0x6a0
[    0.927269]  [<c1038e7a>] ? finish_task_switch+0x2a/0xb0
[    0.927269]  [<c164a69e>] ? schedule+0x31e/0x480
[    0.927269]  [<c102af70>] ? apm+0x0/0x6a0
[    0.927269]  [<c102af70>] ? apm+0x0/0x6a0
[    0.927269]  [<c1052654>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80
[    0.927269]  [<c10525e0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
[    0.927269]  [<c101d627>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[    0.927269] Code:  Bad EIP value.
[    0.927269] EIP: [<000082b2>] 0x82b2 SS:ESP 0068:f6a4beec
[    0.927269] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
[    0.927269] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
[    0.927269] Pid: 271, comm: kapmd Tainted: G      D    2.6.31-rc3-00100-gd520da1-dirty #311

Is caused by an incorrect GDT_ENTRY_INIT() conversion in the apm
code, as noticed by hpa.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Noticed-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090808094905.GA2954@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>