Created attachment 22073 [details] the dmesg log on the 2.6.30-rc4 On some boxes several processors use the same processor bus id.But they are located in different scope. For example: \_SB.SCK0.CPU0 \_SB.SCK1.CPU0 As they use the same bus id, OS will complain the OOPS when registering the acpi proc I/F for the processors that use the same bus id.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=124323404303904&w=2 patch is already available and len just shipped it in acpi tree.
Created attachment 22074 [details] re-name the acpi processor bus id
patch in comment #2 applied to acpi tree
shipped in 2.6.31-rc1 closed