Hi, Today's next tree has warning messages in dmesg when running rcutorture tests. Machine : Power8 PowerVM LPAR Build kernel : 4.10.0-rc5-next-20170125 Steps to recreate: 1.modprobe rcutorture 2.32 CPUS; offline 0-15 CPUS keeping 16-31 CPUs online and vice versa in a loop 3. modprobe -r rcutorture trace messages: rcu-torture: Creating rcu_torture_cbflood task rcu-torture: rcu_torture_cbflood task started rcu-torture: rcu_torture_cbflood task started rq->clock_update_flags < RQCF_ACT_SKIP ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 8780 at kernel/sched/sched.h:804 set_next_entity+0xb88/0xca0 Modules linked in: rcutorture torture tun bridge stp llc kvm xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack iptable_mangle iptable_filter vmx_crypto pseries_rng rng_core binfmt_misc nfsd ip_tables x_tables autofs4 CPU: 1 PID: 8780 Comm: torture_shuffle Not tainted 4.10.0-rc5-next-20170125-autotest #1 task: c0000003a6520000 task.stack: c0000003aa3e4000 NIP: c0000000016c1a18 LR: c0000000016c1a14 CTR: c000000001b38d30 REGS: c0000003aa3e7900 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (4.10.0-rc5-next-20170125-autotest) MSR: 800000000282b033 CR: 28042022 XER: 00000000 CFAR: c000000001f8c204 SOFTE: 0 GPR00: c0000000016c1a14 c0000003aa3e7b80 c000000002631500 0000000000000026 GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000006 6574616470755f6b 3c207367616c665f GPR08: 0000000000000000 c00000000230bdc0 00000003bda23000 00000000000001dd GPR12: 0000000000002200 c00000000ea80400 c00000000169e0d8 c0000003a643ff00 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 c00000000264aaa8 GPR24: ffffffffffffffff d000000006370cb8 d000000006370400 c00000000264aaa8 GPR28: d0000000063712f0 c0000003bfd75a80 c0000003bfd75a00 c0000003acd74a80 NIP [c0000000016c1a18] set_next_entity+0xb88/0xca0 LR [c0000000016c1a14] set_next_entity+0xb84/0xca0 Call Trace: [c0000003aa3e7b80] [c0000000016c1a14] set_next_entity+0xb84/0xca0 (unreliable) [c0000003aa3e7c30] [c0000000016c1b6c] set_curr_task_fair+0x3c/0x60 [c0000003aa3e7c60] [c0000000016ace64] do_set_cpus_allowed+0xd4/0x1c0 [c0000003aa3e7ca0] [c0000000016ad6e8] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x128/0x290 [c0000003aa3e7d10] [d00000000636eaec] torture_kthread_stopping+0x1dc/0x710 [torture] [c0000003aa3e7dc0] [c00000000169e21c] kthread+0x14c/0x190 [c0000003aa3e7e30] [c0000000015cbc60] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x7c Instruction dump: fbdf0068 4bfff4fc 3d42fff2 892af4ab 2f890000 40fef8a4 39200001 3c62ffb4 38636328 992af4ab 488ca7b5 60000000 <0fe00000> 4bfff884 3d02fff2 8928f4ab ---[ end trace 33443e753ef16727 ]--- rcu-torture: Stopping rcu_torture_reader rcu-torture: Stopping rcu_torture_reader rcu-torture: Stopping torture_shuffle task rcu-torture: Stopping rcu_torture_reader Config file attached