FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-6): commit: 47bd678bc7c0d70ffbf18580cc361894b595c0ef ("mm: Simplify and batch working set shadow pages LRU isolation locking") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Andi-Kleen/mm-Simplify-and-batch-working-set-shadow-pages-LRU-isolation-locking/20171029-215419 in testcase: vm-scalability with following parameters: runtime: 300s test: mremap-xread-rand-mt cpufreq_governor: performance test-description: The motivation behind this suite is to exercise functions and regions of the mm/ of the Linux kernel which are of interest to us. test-url: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/vm-scalability.git/ on test machine: 4 threads Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8G memory caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): kern :warn : [ 348.637225] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 53 at mm/workingset.c:456 scan_shadow_nodes+0x240/0x260 kern :warn : [ 348.638448] Modules linked in: xfs loop rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver netconsole snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hda_codec_generic sd_mod sr_mod cdrom sg intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel snd_hda_intel ahci snd_hda_codec libahci i915 snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_pcm ghash_clmulni_intel cryptd pcspkr snd_timer drm_kms_helper snd syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt libata soundcore fb_sys_fops drm shpchp video ip_tables kern :warn : [ 348.643659] CPU: 3 PID: 53 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc6-00001-g47bd678 #3 kern :warn : [ 348.644941] Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard p6-1451cx/2ADA, BIOS 8.15 02/05/2013 kern :warn : [ 348.646248] task: ffff8801db8fcd00 task.stack: ffffc90000ff8000 kern :warn : [ 348.647549] RIP: 0010:scan_shadow_nodes+0x240/0x260 kern :warn : [ 348.649378] RSP: 0000:ffffc90000ffbca8 EFLAGS: 00010097 kern :warn : [ 348.650696] RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: ffff88005759cdc8 RCX: ffff880158b244b8 kern :warn : [ 348.652067] RDX: 0000000000100000 RSI: ffff880158b246b8 RDI: ffff8801ccc3c2e8 kern :warn : [ 348.653469] RBP: ffffc90000ffbcf0 R08: 0000000000100000 R09: 0000000000000000 kern :warn : [ 348.655431] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000020440 R12: ffff8801ccc3c2e8 kern :warn : [ 348.657415] R13: ffff8801ccc3c2d8 R14: ffff8801ccc3c2e8 R15: ffff880158b244a8 kern :warn : [ 348.658849] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880213380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 kern :warn : [ 348.660912] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 kern :warn : [ 348.662958] CR2: 00007ade5947f628 CR3: 0000000001e09006 CR4: 00000000001606e0 kern :warn : [ 348.664458] Call Trace: kern :warn : [ 348.666494] shrink_slab+0x1ea/0x430 kern :warn : [ 348.667974] shrink_node+0x2da/0x2e0 kern :warn : [ 348.669443] kswapd+0x37e/0x760 kern :warn : [ 348.670913] kthread+0x114/0x150 kern :warn : [ 348.672389] ? mem_cgroup_shrink_node+0x160/0x160 kern :warn : [ 348.673904] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40 kern :warn : [ 348.675425] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30 kern :warn : [ 348.676937] Code: 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 0f ff 48 8d 55 c8 48 8b 03 49 89 df 48 39 d3 74 bf 48 89 c3 e9 35 fe ff ff 0f ff eb e5 0f ff eb e1 0f ff eb dd <0f> ff eb d9 0f ff eb d5 48 8b 15 41 06 c3 00 e9 f6 fe ff ff 66 kern :warn : [ 348.680371] ---[ end trace eca47a903e597e92 ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp install job.yaml # job file is attached in this email bin/lkp run job.yaml Thanks, Xiaolong