Greetings, I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd.git bidi-mq commit 992e60a78e1c2c6996fd55c5fb11344ad1a4c189 Author: Boaz Harrosh AuthorDate: Thu Jul 19 15:22:37 2012 +0300 Commit: Boaz Harrosh CommitDate: Sun Mar 30 16:03:29 2014 +0300 RFC: do_xor_speed Broken on UML do to jiffies [ 0.413369] generic_sse: 70.500 MB/sec [ 0.415084] xor: using function: generic_sse (70.500 MB/sec) [ 0.416734] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.418634] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at init/main.c:708 do_one_initcall+0x174/0x18b() [ 0.420050] initcall calibrate_xor_blocks+0x0/0x1cc returned with preemption imbalance [ 0.423371] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc8-00108-g992e60a #38 [ 0.426451] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 0.426700] 0000000000000000 ffff880000155d80 ffffffff823bd1f9 ffff880000155dc8 [ 0.432082] ffff880000155db8 ffffffff81084d37 ffffffff84684565 ffffffff846b9bc6 [ 0.435342] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff880000155e18 [ 0.438786] Call Trace: [ 0.439766] [] dump_stack+0xa1/0x102 [ 0.440059] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x93/0xc1 [ 0.443380] [] ? do_one_initcall+0x174/0x18b [ 0.446707] [] ? do_xor_speed+0x12d/0x12d [ 0.448950] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x55/0x5e [ 0.450041] [] ? do_xor_speed+0x12d/0x12d [ 0.453372] [] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x18b [ 0.455645] [] kernel_init_freeable+0x35b/0x46d [ 0.456706] [] ? do_early_param+0xd7/0xd7 [ 0.460044] [] ? rest_init+0x15c/0x15c [ 0.463372] [] kernel_init+0x10/0x181 [ 0.465550] [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 0.466712] [] ? rest_init+0x15c/0x15c [ 0.470089] ---[ end trace 5d56b560c4cace50 ]--- [ 0.471938] prandom: seed boundary self test passed git bisect start 80b612bf90a8ebdd09dff5695d0357aeb78f963e 66e810ec9fff9cf5622a8326805ef310fd5b98e7 -- git bisect good ad95c966acc03bc906dff6b875a545379680f264 # 03:08 20+ 0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into bidi-mq git bisect bad 992e60a78e1c2c6996fd55c5fb11344ad1a4c189 # 03:09 0- 1 RFC: do_xor_speed Broken on UML do to jiffies # first bad commit: [992e60a78e1c2c6996fd55c5fb11344ad1a4c189] RFC: do_xor_speed Broken on UML do to jiffies git bisect good ad95c966acc03bc906dff6b875a545379680f264 # 03:20 60+ 0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into bidi-mq git bisect bad 80b612bf90a8ebdd09dff5695d0357aeb78f963e # 03:20 0- 19 {TODO} bsg: remove bogus (and fatal) check in bsg_register_queue git bisect good 981e893ed537cbaa08f8089d480db4165e6d71c0 # 03:31 60+ 0 Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip git bisect good 201544be8c37dffbf069bb5fc9edb5674f8c1754 # 03:36 60+ 0 Add linux-next specific files for 20140328 This script may reproduce the error. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash kernel=$1 kvm=( qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu kvm64 -enable-kvm -kernel $kernel -smp 2 -m 256M -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:00:00:00:00:00,model=virtio -net user,vlan=0 -net nic,vlan=1,model=e1000 -net user,vlan=1 -boot order=nc -no-reboot -watchdog i6300esb -serial stdio -display none -monitor null ) append=( debug sched_debug apic=debug ignore_loglevel sysrq_always_enabled panic=10 prompt_ramdisk=0 earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 vga=normal root=/dev/ram0 rw ) "${kvm[@]}" --append "${append[*]}" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Fengguang