diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index b9e9bd854298..6fdbf8c968e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -774,6 +774,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 	disable=	[IPV6]
 			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
 
+	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
+			Format: <int>
+			The number of initial APIC ID for the
+			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
+			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
+			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
+			causing system reset or hang due to sending
+			INIT from AP to BSP.
+
 	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
 			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
 			to workaround buggy firmware.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index 4ec1dd64022a..e78ab8c8ac2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ unsigned int max_physical_apicid;
  */
 physid_mask_t phys_cpu_present_map;
 
+/*
+ * Processor to be disabled specified by kernel parameter
+ * disable_cpu_apicid=<int>, mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
+ * avoid undefined behaviour caused by sending INIT from AP to BSP.
+ */
+unsigned int disabled_cpu_apicid = BAD_APICID;
+
 /*
  * Map cpu index to physical APIC ID
  */
@@ -2113,6 +2120,39 @@ int generic_processor_info(int apicid, int version)
 	bool boot_cpu_detected = physid_isset(boot_cpu_physical_apicid,
 				phys_cpu_present_map);
 
+	/*
+	 * boot_cpu_physical_apicid is designed to have the apicid
+	 * returned by read_apic_id(), i.e, the apicid of the
+	 * currently booting-up processor. However, on some platforms,
+	 * it is temporarilly modified by the apicid reported as BSP
+	 * through MP table. Concretely:
+	 *
+	 * - arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c: MP_processor_info()
+	 * - arch/x86/mm/amdtopology.c: amd_numa_init()
+	 * - arch/x86/platform/visws/visws_quirks.c: MP_processor_info()
+	 *
+	 * This function is executed with the modified
+	 * boot_cpu_physical_apicid. So, disabled_cpu_apicid kernel
+	 * parameter doesn't work to disable APs on kdump 2nd kernel.
+	 *
+	 * Since fixing handling of boot_cpu_physical_apicid requires
+	 * another discussion and tests on each platform, we leave it
+	 * for now and here we use read_apic_id() directly in this
+	 * function, generic_processor_info().
+	 */
+	if (disabled_cpu_apicid != BAD_APICID &&
+	    disabled_cpu_apicid != read_apic_id() &&
+	    disabled_cpu_apicid == apicid) {
+		int thiscpu = num_processors + disabled_cpus;
+
+		pr_warning("ACPI: Disabling requested cpu."
+			   " Processor %d/0x%x ignored.\n",
+			   thiscpu, apicid);
+
+		disabled_cpus++;
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * If boot cpu has not been detected yet, then only allow upto
 	 * nr_cpu_ids - 1 processors and keep one slot free for boot cpu
@@ -2591,3 +2631,12 @@ static int __init lapic_insert_resource(void)
  * that is using request_resource
  */
 late_initcall(lapic_insert_resource);
+
+static int __init apic_set_disabled_cpu_apicid(char *arg)
+{
+	if (!arg || !get_option(&arg, &disabled_cpu_apicid))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("disable_cpu_apicid", apic_set_disabled_cpu_apicid);