Centos 6.2 on DL380 Gen8 troublesome with MPS table mode = full APIC

[ccd999]

Hello

I have installed CentOS 6.2 on a DL380 Gen8. Unless "MPS table mode" is set to "disabled" in RBSU, the operating system behaves very badly - udev segfaults during boot, and segmentation faults continually occur for other processes randomly, making the system basically unusable. Disabling the MPS table means SMP gets disabled, and that isn't acceptable either.

HP ProLiant System ROM 08/20/2012
HP ProLiant System ROM - Backup 02/25/2012
HP ProLiant System ROM Boot block 08/30/2011

I've tried kernels from 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 through to 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 with similar results. I won't post a whole dmesg output but some messages below seem relevant (from 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64).

I've run hardware diagnostics on the machine and it checks out fine. I have tried a huge variety of kernel command line options and RBSU settings with no success.

Has anyone succesfully installed CentOS 6.2 on the DL380 Gen8 ? What procedure was used?

Thanks

Charles

dracut: rd_NO_LVM: removing LVM activation
device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.6-ioctl (2011-10-19) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
udev: starting version 147
udevd[292]: segfault at 7fff79f2b000 ip 00007fb300a306d2 sp 00007fff79f21458 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[7fb30090c000+197000]
udevd[295]: segfault at 7fff79f2b000 ip 00007fb300a306d2 sp 00007fff79f21458 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[7fb30090c000

ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f4f00 00024 (v02 HP    )
ACPI: XSDT 00000000bddce240 000E4 (v01 HP     ProLiant 00000002   Ò? 0000162E)
ACPI: FACP 00000000bddce380 000F4 (v03 HP     ProLiant 00000002   Ò? 0000162E)
ACPI Warning: Invalid length for Pm1aControlBlock: 32, using default 16 (20090903/tbfadt-607)
ACPI Warning: Invalid length for Pm2ControlBlock: 32, using default 8 (20090903/tbfadt-607)

CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz stepping 07
Performance Events: PEBS fmt1+, SandyBridge events, Broken BIOS detected, complain to your hardware vendor.
[Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 38d is 330)

ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: No dock devices found.
HEST: Table parsing has been initialized.
PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PT3D._PRT]
 pci0000:00: Requesting ACPI _OSC control (0x1d)
Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
Unable to assume _OSC PCIe control. Disabling ASPM

udev: starting version 147
multipath[1102]: segfault at db7000 ip 00000039ae927488 sp 00007fff1a9c6698 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[39ae800000+186000]
udevd[1056]: segfault at 7fc5eb5de000 ip 00007fc5eaaa6fa9 sp 00007fff688e21c8 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[7fc5ea977000+186000]
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.07rh
iTCO_wdt: unable to reset NO_REBOOT flag, device disabled by hardware/BIOS
microcode: CPU0 sig=0x206d7, pf=0x1, revision=0x70d
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-2d-07
microcode: CPU1 sig=0x206d7, pf=0x1, revision=0x70d
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-2d-07
microcode: CPU2 sig=0x206d7, pf=0x1, revision=0x70d
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-2d-07
microcode: CPU3 sig=0x206d7, pf=0x1, revision=0x70d
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-2d-07

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

As per my knowledge this server does not support CentOS.

Now coming to "MPS Table Mode", here is the description "MPS Table Mode is used to interrupt routing. Certain unsupported operating systems may require disabling the MPS Table."

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/APIC-Mode-Setting/td-p/2489628

Thanks!