FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 73e5fff98b6446de1490a8d7809121b0108d49f4 ("xfs: switch to use the new mount-api") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git xfs-5.5-merge in testcase: ltp with following parameters: disk: 1HDD fs: xfs test: fs-03 test-description: The LTP testsuite contains a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features. test-url: http://linux-test-project.github.io/ on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 8G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kernel test robot [ 135.976643] LTP: starting fs_fill [ 135.993912] /dev/zero: Can't open blockdev [ 136.020327] raid6: sse2x4 gen() 14769 MB/s [ 136.037281] raid6: sse2x4 xor() 8927 MB/s [ 136.054236] raid6: sse2x2 gen() 12445 MB/s [ 136.071397] raid6: sse2x2 xor() 7441 MB/s [ 136.089313] raid6: sse2x1 gen() 10089 MB/s [ 136.107334] raid6: sse2x1 xor() 7201 MB/s [ 136.108198] raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 gen() 14769 MB/s [ 136.109320] raid6: .... xor() 8927 MB/s, rmw enabled [ 136.111966] raid6: using ssse3x2 recovery algorithm [ 136.122740] xor: automatically using best checksumming function avx [ 136.187956] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-intel [ 136.216946] fuse: init (API version 7.31) [ 136.327654] EXT4-fs (loop0): mounting ext2 file system using the ext4 subsystem [ 136.334974] EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null) [ 136.338933] Mounted ext2 file system at /tmp/ltp-bl4kncm4Ti/g2oJfj/mntpoint supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 137.897422] EXT4-fs (loop0): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem [ 137.908242] EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 137.910111] Mounted ext3 file system at /tmp/ltp-bl4kncm4Ti/g2oJfj/mntpoint supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.4.0-rc3-00117-g73e5fff98b644 .config make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig prepare modules_prepare bzImage modules make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 INSTALL_MOD_PATH= modules_install cd find lib/ | cpio -o -H newc --quiet | gzip > modules.cgz git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k -m modules.cgz job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Rong Chen