FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-4.9): commit: 6ba0c46abfbfb7f68c34cfb23b042e74e765edbb ("x86/entry/64: Create a percpu SYSCALL entry trampoline") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git x86/entry_stack.wip in testcase: trinity with following parameters: runtime: 300s test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester. test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu host -smp 2 -m 1G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 1559877227 | 6ba0c46abf | +--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 2 | 4 | | boot_failures | 10 | 8 | | BUG:kernel_hang_in_test_stage | 10 | 8 | | WARNING:at_kernel/locking/lockdep.c:#check_flags | 0 | 8 | | RIP:check_flags | 0 | 8 | +--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 33.178620] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3911 check_flags+0x1d4/0x1e0 [ 33.180175] Modules linked in: [ 33.180679] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.14.0-rc7-00077-g6ba0c46 #1 [ 33.181804] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 33.183111] task: ffff880032e44040 task.stack: ffffc90000008000 [ 33.184064] RIP: 0010:check_flags+0x1d4/0x1e0 [ 33.184751] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000000bea0 EFLAGS: 00010086 [ 33.185629] RAX: 000000000000002e RBX: ffff880032e44040 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 33.186743] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff810d527d RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 33.187880] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 33.188993] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff810d5239 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 33.190123] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 33.191245] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff81e3b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 33.192501] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 33.193421] CR2: 00007f12a97a2100 CR3: 000000003f43d000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 [ 33.194541] Call Trace: [ 33.194935] lock_acquire+0x55/0x1b0 [ 33.195546] vtime_user_exit+0x3c/0xa0 [ 33.196147] ? __context_tracking_exit+0x6f/0x1a0 [ 33.196891] __context_tracking_exit+0x6f/0x1a0 [ 33.197621] do_syscall_64+0x35b/0x550 [ 33.198219] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 [ 33.198969] RIP: 0033:0x7f12a95951f9 [ 33.199548] RSP: 002b:00007ffd91c847a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000000c [ 33.200747] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00007f12a95951f9 [ 33.201857] RDX: 00007ffd91c84a70 RSI: 000055dd96c392c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 33.202971] RBP: 000055dd96c06040 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007ffd91c84a99 [ 33.204093] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000009 [ 33.205201] R13: 00007f12a957e850 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000001000 [ 33.206335] Code: 81 48 c7 c7 62 5e c2 81 31 c0 e8 4c e4 00 00 0f ff e9 dd fe ff ff 48 c7 c6 7f 57 c3 81 48 c7 c7 62 5e c2 81 31 c0 e8 30 e4 00 00 <0f> ff e9 0e ff ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 [ 33.209395] ---[ end trace 89cbd096682c3c22 ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Xiaolong