Christoph, Here is another trace: [ 43.224124] numa_remove_cpu cpu 1 node 0: mask now 0 [ 43.273080] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline [ 43.274096] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff822e1650 [ 43.275010] IP: [] slab_cpuup_callback+0x65/0x10e [ 43.275010] PGD 1f7d067 PUD 1f81063 PMD 1e22c063 PTE 22e1162 [ 43.275010] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 43.275010] Modules linked in: [ 43.275010] CPU 0 [ 43.275010] Pid: 2975, comm: 01-cpu-hotplug Not tainted 3.7.0-rc1-00016-gb59d450 #1592 Bochs Bochs [ 43.275010] RIP: 0010:[] [] slab_cpuup_callback+0x65/0x10e [ 43.275010] RSP: 0018:ffff880017029d28 EFLAGS: 00010016 [ 43.275010] RAX: 0000000000001400 RBX: ffff88001f5d69e0 RCX: ffff88001715cf06 [ 43.275010] RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffffffff81a3c047 RDI: ffffffff810bcca1 [ 43.275010] RBP: ffff880017029d48 R08: ffff880017029cc8 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 43.275010] R10: ffff88001f20a000 R11: ffff88001f20a000 R12: ffffffff822e1650 [ 43.275010] R13: 0000000000000206 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffff82087a70 [ 43.275010] FS: 00007f62c0cb4700(0000) GS:ffff88001f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 43.275010] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 43.275010] CR2: ffffffff822e1650 CR3: 0000000017058000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 43.275010] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 43.275010] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 43.275010] Process 01-cpu-hotplug (pid: 2975, threadinfo ffff880017028000, task ffff88001715c7c0) [ 43.275010] Stack: [ 43.275010] 0000000000000001 00000000fffffff4 ffffffff82087bd0 0000000000000000 [ 43.275010] ffff880017029d98 ffffffff81a5c1c8 0000000000000001 0000000000000007 [ 43.275010] ffff880017029db8 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 43.275010] Call Trace: [ 43.275010] [] notifier_call_chain+0x65/0x95 [ 43.275010] [] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10 [ 43.275010] [] __cpu_notify+0x20/0x37 [ 43.275010] [] cpu_notify+0x13/0x15 [ 43.275010] [] cpu_notify_nofail+0xe/0x16 [ 43.275010] [] _cpu_down+0x193/0x26d [ 43.275010] [] cpu_down+0x28/0x3c [ 43.275010] [] store_online+0x3e/0x8f [ 43.275010] [] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24 [ 43.275010] [] sysfs_write_file+0xee/0x126 [ 43.275010] [] vfs_write+0xa6/0x152 [ 43.275010] [] sys_write+0x4c/0x80 [ 43.275010] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 43.275010] Code: e8 1d 98 01 00 4c 8b 25 a8 d1 57 00 49 83 ec 68 e9 8e 00 00 00 9c 58 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 c5 fa 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 4d 0c 68 ff <49> 8b 04 24 48 89 c3 4a 03 1c f5 00 3f 09 82 74 35 48 83 7b 10 [ 43.275010] RIP [] slab_cpuup_callback+0x65/0x10e [ 43.275010] RSP [ 43.275010] CR2: ffffffff822e1650 Thanks, Fengguang