Don't confuse apic=... command line option with apic Previously apic was foced with apic=logopt was specified. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c @@ -348,7 +348,9 @@ static __init void parse_cmdline_early ( if (!memcmp(from, "noapic", 6)) skip_ioapic_setup = 1; - if (!memcmp(from, "apic", 4)) { + /* Make sure to not confuse with apic= */ + if (!memcmp(from, "apic", 4) && + (from[4] == ' ' || from[4] == 0)) { skip_ioapic_setup = 0; ioapic_force = 1; }