Greetings, I got a rather hard to reproduce/bisect oops when doing CPU hotplug testing: [ 480.327742] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. [ 480.329408] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 480.330355] kernel BUG at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/kernel/sched/rt.c:687! [ 480.330355] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 480.330355] Modules linked in: [ 480.330355] CPU 1 [ 480.330355] Pid: 3007, comm: 01-cpu-hotplug Not tainted 3.7.0-rc3-00017-g1a303f5 #2502 Bochs Bochs [ 480.330355] RIP: 0010:[] [] __disable_runtime+0x188/0x1c2 [ 480.330355] RSP: 0018:ffff8800199cbad8 EFLAGS: 00010082 [ 480.330355] RAX: ffffffff810a6796 RBX: ffff88001f3d3b40 RCX: 0000000000000005 [ 480.330355] RDX: ffffffff81a5ff61 RSI: 0000000000000092 RDI: 0000000000000046 [ 480.330355] RBP: ffff8800199cbb38 R08: 00000000000006fc R09: 000000000000000c [ 480.330355] R10: 000000000000000c R11: ffff8800168cac88 R12: 0000000000000040 [ 480.330355] R13: ffff88001f3d4358 R14: 00000000001d3b40 R15: fffffffffd050f80 [ 480.330355] FS: 00007f2f660d9700(0000) GS:ffff88001f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 480.330355] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 480.330355] CR2: 00007f2f65aab830 CR3: 00000000184a1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 480.330355] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 480.330355] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 480.330355] Process 01-cpu-hotplug (pid: 3007, threadinfo ffff8800199ca000, task ffff8800168ca3e0) [ 480.330355] Stack: [ 480.330355] ffff8800199cbb58 ffff8800168cac18 ffff88001f3d3b58 ffff880018544a58 [ 480.330355] ffff88001f3d3cb8 0000000000000040 ffff8800199cbb58 ffff88001f3d3b40 [ 480.330355] ffffffff81a931d0 ffffffff824086b0 ffff880018544a60 00000000ffffffff [ 480.330355] Call Trace: [ 480.330355] [] rq_offline_rt+0x74/0x96 [ 480.330355] [] set_rq_offline.part.37+0x2a/0x81 [ 480.330355] [] rq_attach_root+0x85/0x193 [ 480.330355] [] cpu_attach_domain+0x180/0x228 [ 480.330355] [] partition_sched_domains+0x157/0x350 [ 480.330355] [] ? partition_sched_domains+0x109/0x350 [ 480.330355] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x125/0x181 [ 480.330355] [] cpuset_update_active_cpus+0x10c/0x117 [ 480.330355] [] ? keep_working+0x2d/0x2d [ 480.330355] [] cpuset_cpu_inactive+0x20/0x3f [ 480.330355] [] notifier_call_chain+0x65/0x95 [ 480.330355] [] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10 [ 480.330355] [] __cpu_notify+0x20/0x37 [ 480.330355] [] _cpu_down+0xa4/0x26d [ 480.330355] [] cpu_down+0x28/0x3c [ 480.330355] [] store_online+0x3e/0x8f [ 480.330355] [] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24 [ 480.330355] [] sysfs_write_file+0xee/0x126 [ 480.330355] [] vfs_write+0xa6/0x152 [ 480.330355] [] sys_write+0x4c/0x80 [ 480.330355] [] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 [ 480.330355] Code: 00 00 00 49 63 d4 e8 e1 b8 39 00 3b 05 73 97 ff 00 48 89 45 c8 41 89 c4 0f 8c 2c ff ff ff 4c 89 ef e8 72 8d 9b 00 4d 85 ff 74 02 <0f> 0b 48 c7 83 10 08 00 00 ff ff ff ff 4c 89 ef c7 83 00 08 00 [ 480.330355] RIP [] __disable_runtime+0x188/0x1c2 [ 480.330355] RSP Thanks, Fengguang