Hello, FYI this happens in mainline kernel 4.14.0-02748-gabc36be. It shows up since v4.13 . It occurs in 1 out of 2 boots. [ 26.681423] /usr/bin/curl -sSf http://inn:80/~lkp/cgi-bin/lkp-jobfile-append-var?job_file=/lkp/scheduled/vm-ivb41-1G-7/boot-1-debian-x86_64-2016-08-31.cgz-abc36be236358162202e86ad88616ff95a755101-20171115-43155-csfyyy-0.yaml&job_state=running -o /dev/null [ 26.681431] [ 27.694708] random: crng init done [ 30.041574] irq 3: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [ 30.042645] CPU: 0 PID: 4421 Comm: dmesg Not tainted 4.14.0-02748-gabc36be #2 [ 30.043648] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 30.044791] Call Trace: [ 30.045267] [ 30.046157] dump_stack+0x79/0xab: dump_stack at lib/dump_stack.c:55 [ 30.046661] __report_bad_irq+0x3e/0xbb: __report_bad_irq at kernel/irq/spurious.c:208 [ 30.047213] note_interrupt+0x1ab/0x239: note_interrupt at kernel/irq/spurious.c:421 [ 30.047764] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x41/0x47: handle_irq_event_percpu at kernel/irq/handle.c:194 [ 30.048424] handle_irq_event+0x39/0x5a: handle_irq_event at kernel/irq/handle.c:206 [ 30.049013] handle_edge_irq+0xc4/0xe6: handle_edge_irq at kernel/irq/chip.c:796 [ 30.049582] handle_irq+0xef/0xf7: handle_irq at arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c:78 [ 30.050087] do_IRQ+0x7a/0xe5: do_IRQ at arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:241 [ 30.050541] common_interrupt+0x96/0x96: ret_from_intr at arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:607 [ 30.051089] [ 30.051444] RIP: 0010:arch_local_irq_restore+0x2/0x8: arch_local_irq_restore at arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:777 [ 30.052166] RSP: 0018:ffffb1750342bd38 EFLAGS: 00000282 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffc6 [ 30.053273] RAX: ffff9f89b4f642c0 RBX: 0000000000000282 RCX: ffff9f89d2e0e307 [ 30.054242] RDX: ffff9f89d2e0e306 RSI: ffff9f89b4f64c30 RDI: 0000000000000282 [ 30.055196] RBP: ffffffffa625b870 R08: 00000009df72d6bb R09: 0000000000000001 [ 30.056126] R10: ffff9f89b4f642c0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000282 [ 30.057091] R13: ffff9f89da1232f8 R14: ffff9f89a461e240 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 30.058039] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x54: __preempt_count_sub at arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:88 (inlined by) __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore at include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 (inlined by) _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore at kernel/locking/spinlock.c:191 [ 30.058765] uart_start+0x47/0x5c: uart_start at drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:135 (discriminator 1) [ 30.059260] n_tty_write+0x131/0x410: n_tty_write at drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2337 [ 30.059784] ? prepare_to_wait+0x71/0x71: woken_wake_function at kernel/sched/wait.c:435 [ 30.060390] tty_write+0x1a7/0x23a: do_tty_write at drivers/tty/tty_io.c:950 (inlined by) tty_write at drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1033 [ 30.060922] ? n_tty_flush_buffer+0x49/0x49: n_tty_write at drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2272 [ 30.061564] __vfs_write+0x21/0xa7: __vfs_write at fs/read_write.c:480 [ 30.062113] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2e/0x37: __preempt_count_sub at arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:88 (inlined by) __raw_spin_unlock_irq at include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:169 (inlined by) _raw_spin_unlock_irq at kernel/locking/spinlock.c:199 [ 30.062805] ? finish_task_switch+0x166/0x1d3: finish_task_switch at kernel/sched/core.c:2671 [ 30.063481] vfs_write+0xb8/0xf5: vfs_write at fs/read_write.c:545 [ 30.064029] SyS_write+0x50/0x7e [ 30.064569] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96: entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath at arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:206 [ 30.065262] RIP: 0033:0x7fa1369040c0 [ 30.065818] RSP: 002b:00007ffe2ab56918 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 [ 30.066828] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000046 RCX: 00007fa1369040c0 [ 30.067740] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007fa136bc66a3 RDI: 0000000000000001 [ 30.068652] RBP: 00007fa136bc66a3 R08: 00007fa136bc7780 R09: 00007fa136bc6620 [ 30.069668] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 30.070667] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007fa136bc6620 R15: 000000000060c3f7 [ 30.071657] handlers: [ 30.072081] [] serial8250_interrupt [ 30.072841] Disabling IRQ #3 Attached the full dmesg, kconfig and reproduce scripts. Thanks, Fengguang