Baseline kernel (RUN 1 canary + RUN 2 crash): DragonFly dfbsd 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #0: Sat Oct 3 07:28:45 UTC 2026 root@dfbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_NOINV x86_64 = sys/config/X86_64_GENERIC (INVARIANTS kernel config of the audit guest) with "options INVARIANTS" commented out and ident X86_64_NOINV, built on the guest with: make -j6 nativekernel KERNCONF=X86_64_NOINV Stock GENERIC (production) also ships WITHOUT INVARIANTS: sys/config/GENERIC has no INVARIANTS line (only X86_64_GENERIC does). DF-5352 production-kernel panic run used the second identical build: DragonFly dfbsd 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #0: Sat Oct 3 08:13:01 UTC 2026 ... X86_64_NOINV Fix-validation kernel: DragonFly dfbsd 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #1: Sat Oct 3 08:38:15 UTC 2026 ... X86_64_NOINV (same + fix1.diff + fix2.diff applied to ioapic_abi.c, incremental rebuild) Guest: QEMU/KVM, 6 vCPUs, 4GB, virtio-blk/net, ioapic + local apic enabled, hw.ncpu=6. qemu cmdline from dfbsd-qemu/vm.sh.