Greetings, This bug exists in both upstream and linux-next. The first bad commit could be any of: 086fc8f8037bf16f55f82c66b26a8b834f7349ec x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled() e666dfa273db1b12711eaec91facac5fec2ec851 x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU a8ebf6d1d6971b90a20f5bd0465e6d520377e33b x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode ec400ddeff200b068ddc6c70f7321f49ecf32ed5 x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU 63b553c68db5a8d4febcd1010b194333d2b02e1c x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit e6ebf5deaaaa33b661f0db86380c232b162bd68c x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP d288e1cf8e62f3e4034f1f021f047009c4ac0b3c x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function feddc9de8bf69415da6f96eca0219186b70d145a x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit 9cd4d78e21cfdc709b1af516214ec4f69ee0e6bd x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode cd745be89e1580e8a1b47454a39f97f9c5c4b1e0 x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory da76f64e7eb28b718501d15c1b79af560b7ca4ea x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature We cannot bisect more! Kernel cmdline: hung_task_panic=1 rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout=100 log_buf_len=8M ignore_loglevel debug sched_debug apic=debug dynamic_printk sysrq_always_enabled panic=10 prompt_ramdisk=0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 vga=normal root=/dev/ram0 rw link=/kernel-tests/run-queue/kvm/i386-randconfig-x19-0606/staging:staging-next/.vmlinuz-f2c3d800972670fb49bc0ebaeb02450aa591eb0a-20130606164838-7-xian branch=staging/staging-next BOOT_IMAGE=/kernel/i386-randconfig-x19-0606/f2c3d800972670fb49bc0ebaeb02450aa591eb0a/vmlinuz-3.10.0-rc3-00579-gf2c3d80 Early crashed kernel: vmlinuz-3.10.0-rc3-00579-gf2c3d80 3.10.0-rc3-00579-gf2c3d80 #5 git bisect start v3.9 v3.8 -- git bisect good d778df51c09264076fe0208c099ef7d428f21790 # 10 2013-06-07 12:22:06 mm: vmscan: save work scanning (almost) empty LRU lists git bisect bad ee89f81252179dcbf6cd65bd48299f5e52292d88 # 0 2013-06-07 12:22:10 Merge branch 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block git bisect bad 69086a78bdc973ec0b722be790b146e84ba8a8c4 # 0 2013-06-07 12:22:15 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs git bisect bad d9978ec5680059d727b39d6c706777c6973587f2 # 0 2013-06-07 12:22:16 Merge tag 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev git bisect bad 5ce1a70e2f00f0bce0cab57f798ca354b9496169 # 0 2013-06-07 12:22:18 Merge branch 'akpm' (more incoming from Andrew) git bisect bad 9d3cae26acb471d5954cfdc25d1438b32060babe # 0 2013-06-07 12:22:20 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc git bisect good db8ff907027b63b02c8cef385ea95445b7a41357 # 10 2013-06-07 12:35:25 powerpc: Documentation for transactional memory on powerpc git bisect bad 5f32ed140dac726e880d292988ba20d16f545bda # 0 2013-06-07 12:35:30 Merge branch 'parisc-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux git bisect bad c68fea3464cbe4f3e1382f9f74a7c04cdbfb92ad # 0 2013-06-07 12:35:33 Merge tag 'please-pull-fix-ia64-build' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux git bisect good 41ef8f826692c8f65882bec0a8211bd4d1d2d19a # 50 2013-06-07 12:35:36 rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability git bisect good 0cc9129d75ef8993702d97ab0e49542c15ac6ab9 # 50 2013-06-07 12:38:20 x86-64, xen, mmu: Provide an early version of write_cr3. git bisect bad c47f39e3b75e1138823984ad5079547c7a41b726 # 0 2013-06-07 12:42:40 Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip git bisect good 0d91ea86a895b911fd7d999acb3f600706d9c8cd # 50 2013-06-07 13:10:33 x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading git bisect bad da76f64e7eb28b718501d15c1b79af560b7ca4ea # 0 2013-06-07 13:10:36 x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature git bisect bad 1612e111e4e565422242727efb59499cce8738e4 # 0 2013-06-07 13:10:56 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net git bisect bad 4e1e7059d375482daeeda395bba2939679b1ee14 # 0 2013-06-07 13:11:11 Add linux-next specific files for 20130606 Thanks, Fengguang