FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 50b7ae6af5671168cc6cf2de959b02584e4c3f87 ("rcu: Diagnostics for grace-period hangs") 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-x86_64 -m 420M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 8c42b1f39f | 50b7ae6af5 | +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 0 | 0 | | boot_failures | 28 | 28 | | WARNING:at_mm/slab_common.c:#kmalloc_slab | 28 | 21 | | EIP:kmalloc_slab | 28 | 21 | | Mem-Info | 28 | 21 | | IP-Config:Auto-configuration_of_network_failed | 24 | 14 | | BUG:spinlock_recursion_on_CPU | 0 | 10 | +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 163.510428] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, rcu_torture_cbf/54 [ 163.511698] lock: rcu_sched_state+0x0/0x9a0, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: rcu_torture_cbf/54, .owner_cpu: 0 [ 163.512424] CPU: 0 PID: 54 Comm: rcu_torture_cbf Not tainted 4.18.0-rc1-00004-g50b7ae6 #156 [ 163.512424] Call Trace: [ 163.512424] [ 163.512424] dump_stack+0x58/0x76 [ 163.512424] spin_dump+0x64/0xb0 [ 163.512424] do_raw_spin_lock+0x7d/0xb0 [ 163.512424] _raw_spin_lock+0x45/0x60 [ 163.512424] rcu_process_callbacks+0x991/0xba0 [ 163.512424] ? irqtime_account_irq+0x6e/0x80 [ 163.512424] __do_softirq+0xa3/0x1ba [ 163.512424] ? __irqentry_text_end+0x5/0x5 [ 163.512424] call_on_stack+0x40/0x50 [ 163.512424] [ 163.512424] ? irq_exit+0xb5/0xc0 [ 163.512424] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x51/0x80 [ 163.512424] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x39/0x40 [ 163.512424] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40 [ 163.512424] ? __debug_object_init+0xba/0x490 [ 163.512424] ? debug_object_activate+0x1ae/0x210 [ 163.512424] ? __call_rcu+0x2b/0x250 [ 163.512424] ? rcu_torture_boost_cb+0x10/0x10 [ 163.512424] ? call_rcu_sched+0xf/0x20 [ 163.512424] ? rcu_torture_cbflood+0xe4/0x1b0 [ 163.512424] ? kthread+0xed/0x100 [ 163.512424] ? rcu_torture_err_cb+0x20/0x20 [ 163.512424] ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x20/0x20 [ 163.512424] ? ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x40 Elapsed time: 190 #!/bin/bash # To reproduce, # 1) save job-script and this script (both are attached in 0day report email) # 2) run this script with your compiled kernel and optional env $INSTALL_MOD_PATH kernel=$1 initrds=( /osimage/openwrt/openwrt-i386-2016-03-16.cgz /lkp/lkp/lkp-i386.cgz /osimage/pkg/debian-x86_64-2016-08-31.cgz/trinity-static-i386-x86_64-6ddabfd2_2017-11-10.cgz ) HTTP_PREFIX=https://download.01.org/0day-ci/lkp-qemu wget --timestamping "${initrds[@]/#/$HTTP_PREFIX}" { cat "${initrds[@]//*\//}" [[ $INSTALL_MOD_PATH ]] && ( cd "$INSTALL_MOD_PATH" find lib | cpio -o -H newc --quiet | gzip ) echo job-script | cpio -o -H newc --quiet | gzip } > initrd.img kvm=( qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel $kernel -initrd initrd.img -m 420 -smp 1 -device e1000,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0 -boot order=nc -no-reboot -watchdog i6300esb -watchdog-action debug -rtc base=localtime -serial stdio -display none -monitor null ) append=( ip=::::vm-lkp-os-openwrt-ia32-13::dhcp root=/dev/ram0 user=lkp job=/job-script ARCH=i386 kconfig=i386-randconfig-i0-201825 branch=linux-devel/devel-spot-201806270834 commit=50b7ae6af5671168cc6cf2de959b02584e4c3f87 BOOT_IMAGE=/pkg/linux/i386-randconfig-i0-201825/gcc-7/50b7ae6af5671168cc6cf2de959b02584e4c3f87/vmlinuz-4.18.0-rc1-00004-g50b7ae6 max_uptime=1500 RESULT_ROOT=/result/trinity/300s/vm-lkp-os-openwrt-ia32/openwrt-i386-2016-03-16.cgz/i386-randconfig-i0-201825/gcc-7/50b7ae6af5671168cc6cf2de959b02584e4c3f87/3 result_service=tmpfs debug apic=debug sysrq_always_enabled rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout=100 net.ifnames=0 printk.devkmsg=on panic=-1 softlockup_panic=1 nmi_watchdog=panic oops=panic load_ramdisk=2 prompt_ramdisk=0 To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Xiaolong