Hi Jason, This warning shows up while doing kernel boot tests in kvm: [ 2.998462] kgdbts: ERROR PUT: end of test buffer on 'do_fork_test' line 2 expected T0* got $W01#b8 [ 3.001723] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 3.003417] WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/usb/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c:813 run_simple_test+0x39a/0x3c2() [ 3.006654] Modules linked in: [ 3.007855] Pid: 69, comm: reboot Not tainted 3.5.0-rc5+ #23 [ 3.009979] Call Trace: [ 3.010919] [] ? run_simple_test+0x39a/0x3c2 [ 3.013131] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x84/0x9b [ 3.015319] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c [ 3.017433] [] run_simple_test+0x39a/0x3c2 [ 3.019490] [] kgdbts_put_char+0x33/0x35 [ 3.021514] [] gdbstub_exit+0xfb/0x12f [ 3.023474] [] dbg_notify_reboot+0x46/0x4a [ 3.025560] [] notifier_call_chain+0x37/0x90 [ 3.027695] [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x62/0x77 [ 3.030158] [] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x16 [ 3.032565] [] kernel_restart_prepare+0x1d/0x3d [ 3.034785] [] kernel_restart+0x14/0x67 [ 3.036799] [] sys_reboot+0x18c/0x1ca [ 3.038726] [] ? lock_acquire+0xf8/0x12c [ 3.040832] [] ? iterate_supers+0xbc/0x12d [ 3.042906] [] ? __sync_filesystem+0xe4/0xe4 [ 3.045163] [] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0xee/0x12b [ 3.047410] [] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5c [ 3.049430] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x121/0x17b [ 3.051850] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 3.054189] [] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f and the oops is introduced by 2366e047840e33928803c0442176fb3991423da8 is the first bad commit commit 2366e047840e33928803c0442176fb3991423da8 Author: Jason Wessel Date: Fri Mar 16 14:20:41 2012 -0500 kgdb,debug-core,gdbstub: Hook the reboot notifier for debugger detach The gdbstub and kdb should get detached if the system is rebooting. Calling gdbstub_exit() will set the proper debug core state and send a message to any debugger that is connected to correctly detach. An attached debugger will receive the exit code from include/linux/reboot.h based on SYS_HALT, SYS_REBOOT, etc... Reported-by: Jan Kiszka Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel :040000 040000 5ccb9b38680fc824087e2d2e458de5e3920d0437 e173fa7aa9a110c033ef0daebb3da1b4b6811ab6 M kernel bisect run success Thanks, Fengguang