Stephen, I got the below oops and the first bad commit is commit 457583af4aef89d5252769ea290a2acc89e2361f Author: Stephen Rothwell Date: Mon Feb 4 18:12:17 2013 +1100 memory-hotplug: common APIs to support page tables hot-remove fix fix Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell I see no direct relationship between the change and oops message, however I tried two bisects and they both converge to the above commit. [ 34.746615] cryptomgr_test (42) used greatest stack depth: 6776 bytes left [ 34.802868] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 34.803941] WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/lib/debugobjects.c:261 debug_print_object+0x7c/0x8d() [ 34.804548] Hardware name: Bochs [ 34.804548] ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object type: percpu_counter hint: (null) [ 34.804548] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc6-09234-g457583a #40 [ 34.804548] Call Trace: [ 34.804548] [] ? debug_print_object+0x7c/0x8d [ 34.804548] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x79/0x94 [ 34.804548] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43 [ 34.804548] [] debug_print_object+0x7c/0x8d [ 34.804548] [] ? __debug_object_init+0x3d/0x333 [ 34.804548] [] __debug_object_init+0x2e8/0x333 [ 34.804548] [] debug_object_init+0x14/0x16 [ 34.804548] [] __percpu_counter_init+0x6a/0xc8 [ 34.804548] [] bdi_init+0x139/0x1d1 [ 34.804548] [] swap_setup+0x38/0x84 [ 34.804548] [] kswapd_init+0x12/0x77 [ 34.804548] [] ? swap_setup+0x84/0x84 [ 34.804548] [] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x134 [ 34.804548] [] kernel_init_freeable+0x10b/0x19a [ 34.804548] [] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31 [ 34.804548] [] ? rest_init+0xc3/0xc3 [ 34.804548] [] kernel_init+0x9/0xd6 [ 34.804548] [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 34.804548] [] ? rest_init+0xc3/0xc3 [ 34.804548] ---[ end trace 4b830e8d096c7c64 ]--- git bisect start 457583af4aef89d5252769ea290a2acc89e2361f v3.7 -- git bisect good b4c582a92f41417154131083127e24b66cc4b31b # 10 2013-02-08 11:31:44 serial: xilinx_uartps: get clock rate info from dts git bisect good 24d32e96c394bb84ca30dc41f8995efb3efa0b2e # 10 2013-02-08 11:41:36 Merge remote-tracking branch 'sound/for-next' git bisect good 86159e4b9bc1270344a890d368ab08d91a373c0b # 10 2013-02-08 11:50:32 Merge remote-tracking branch 'workqueues/for-next' git bisect good 32165b5ad1f88636cf5b7768cbf33cea74989211 # 10 2013-02-08 11:59:39 Merge remote-tracking branch 'char-misc/char-misc-next' git bisect good edbbe0c1f464400706358f91d0b9a308e56cf50f # 10 2013-02-08 12:11:42 Merge remote-tracking branch 'samsung/for-next' git bisect good c5ec1c273c49037e833f096c4f591abae8c41c01 # 10 2013-02-08 12:20:33 compat: return -EFAULT on error in waitid() git bisect good e4fde7764bf589399a6060596cca195f3fce15ff # 10 2013-02-08 12:27:14 get_maintainer.pl: find maintainers for removed files git bisect good 6710fc9562f4016222677534277ea442ff028ea1 # 10 2013-02-08 12:33:37 hfsplus: add support of manipulation by attributes file git bisect good 960468a8cda8ab71a846b668a03e85c08f3543c0 # 10 2013-02-08 12:37:42 wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout() git bisect good 29ce58899628f7c1de594b4c51a57129b9d28dae # 10 2013-02-08 12:41:41 aio-dont-include-aioh-in-schedh-fix-fix git bisect good bf5b05d942033ed019a3daef9651ccb172c50a2a # 10 2013-02-08 12:46:53 block-aio-batch-completion-for-bios-kiocbs-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix git bisect good 04e0961ab478b63f81d6976e50b5642fcfaf80c9 # 10 2013-02-08 12:54:30 aio: fix aio_read_events_ring() types git bisect good ec32b1df9515509c7ced856ea2f687d0ae51fe27 # 10 2013-02-08 12:59:23 kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init() git bisect good 0e4ef6ad789dc7fedeaf347d013521bffe685480 # 10 2013-02-08 13:03:06 swap-add-per-partition-lock-for-swapfile-fix-fix-fix-fix git bisect good 0e4ef6ad789dc7fedeaf347d013521bffe685480 # 30 2013-02-08 13:15:16 swap-add-per-partition-lock-for-swapfile-fix-fix-fix-fix git bisect bad 99ae5387e08311e47931836be5136d9df9e94cb2 # 0 2013-02-08 13:18:32 Add linux-next specific files for 20130205 Thanks, Fengguang