Greeting, FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9): commit: 8e4ec3d02b549a731c94b4bcddff212bb92cdbaf ("refperf: Rename RCU_REF_PERF_TEST to RCU_REF_SCALE_TEST") 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 -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 16G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +---------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | c7dcf8106f | 8e4ec3d02b | +---------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 14 | 0 | | boot_failures | 23 | 38 | | invoked_oom-killer:gfp_mask=0x | 5 | 4 | | Mem-Info | 5 | 4 | | Out_of_memory_and_no_killable_processes | 4 | 4 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:System_is_deadlocked_on_memory | 4 | 4 | | WARNING:at_kernel/trace/trace.c:#trace_find_next_entry | 18 | | | EIP:trace_find_next_entry | 18 | | | error:#[##] | 0 | 34 | | EIP:main_func | 0 | 34 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 0 | 34 | +---------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kernel test robot [ 14.325320] [ 14.337793] [main] Added 18 filenames from /dev [ 14.337808] [ 15.232694] rcu-ref-perf: Experiment #0 (Format: :) [ 15.232694] [ 15.238007] divide_error: 0000 [#1] PTI [ 15.239505] CPU: 0 PID: 86 Comm: main_func Tainted: G S 5.8.0-rc3-00028-g8e4ec3d02b549 #1 [ 15.242735] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 15.249804] EIP: main_func+0x2af/0x393 [ 15.251276] Code: af f0 e8 86 f8 ff ff bf e8 03 00 00 69 ca e8 03 00 00 f7 e7 89 55 8c 89 45 88 8b 45 8c 31 ff 8d 14 01 39 d6 77 08 89 d0 31 d2 f6 89 c7 8b 4d 94 8b 45 88 f7 f6 89 7c d9 04 89 04 d9 43 e9 09 [ 15.256851] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 [ 15.258817] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: dc6cdf80 ESP: dc6cdf08 [ 15.260738] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 15.262810] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 08bb0000 CR3: 33bbe000 CR4: 000406f0 [ 15.264757] Call Trace: [ 15.265997] ? __kthread_parkme+0x3a/0x71 [ 15.267516] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x34/0x40 [ 15.269216] ? tracer_hardirqs_on+0x11/0x25 [ 15.270767] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x34/0x41 [ 15.272295] kthread+0xee/0xf3 [ 15.273636] ? srcu_ref_perf_read_section+0x69/0x69 [ 15.275325] ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x1c/0x1c [ 15.277009] ret_from_fork+0x19/0x30 [ 15.278462] Modules linked in: psmouse parport_pc ide_pci_generic qemu_fw_cfg ide_core processor [ 15.281552] ---[ end trace 891088ef0ed36b53 ]--- [ 15.283184] EIP: main_func+0x2af/0x393 [ 15.284632] Code: af f0 e8 86 f8 ff ff bf e8 03 00 00 69 ca e8 03 00 00 f7 e7 89 55 8c 89 45 88 8b 45 8c 31 ff 8d 14 01 39 d6 77 08 89 d0 31 d2 f6 89 c7 8b 4d 94 8b 45 88 f7 f6 89 7c d9 04 89 04 d9 43 e9 09 [ 15.290313] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 [ 15.292272] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: dc6cdf80 ESP: dc6cdf08 [ 15.294261] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 15.296304] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 08bb0000 CR3: 33bbe000 CR4: 000406f0 [ 15.298264] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception [ 15.300001] Kernel Offset: disabled Elapsed time: 60 qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk-vm-snb-i386-61-0 256G To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.8.0-rc3-00028-g8e4ec3d02b549 .config make HOSTCC=gcc-9 CC=gcc-9 ARCH=i386 olddefconfig prepare modules_prepare bzImage 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, lkp