FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: 69218e47994da614e7af600bf06887750ab6657a ("x86: Remap GDT tables in the fixmap section") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master in testcase: trinity with following parameters: runtime: 300s test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester. test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -smp 2 -m 320M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +--------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | f06bdd4001 | 69218e4799 | +--------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 3 | 0 | | boot_failures | 5 | 8 | | BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_boot_stage | 4 | | | WARNING:at_arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h:#fpu__restore | 1 | | | BUG:kernel_hang_in_boot_stage | 0 | 8 | +--------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 0.000000] sysrq: sysrq always enabled. [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] allocated 331644 bytes of page_ext [ 0.000000] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000) [ 0.000000] Memory: 267332K/327160K available (14061K kernel code, 1104K rwdata, 4696K rodata, 2460K init, 13208K bss, 59828K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) [ 0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xffa74000 - 0xfffff000 (5676 kB) [ 0.000000] pkmap : 0xff400000 - 0xff800000 (4096 kB) [ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0x547e0000 - 0xff3fe000 (2732 MB) [ 0.000000] lowmem : 0x40000000 - 0x53fe0000 ( 319 MB) [ 0.000000] .init : 0x4236a000 - 0x425d1000 (2460 kB) [ 0.000000] .data : 0x41dbb72c - 0x42368300 (5810 kB) [ 0.000000] .text : 0x41000000 - 0x41dbb72c (14061 kB) Elapsed time: 480 BUG: kernel hang in boot stage initrds=( /osimage/yocto/yocto-tiny-i386-2016-04-22.cgz /lkp/scheduled/vm-lkp-hsw01-yocto-i386-25/trinity-300s-yocto-tiny-i386-2016-04-22.cgz-69218e47994da614e7af600bf06887750ab6657a-20170319-117821-bls48g-0.cgz /lkp/lkp/lkp-i386.cgz To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/01org/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Xiaolong