FYI, we noticed the below changes on https://git.linaro.org/people/vireshk/linux cpufreq/stats/cleanups commit 2136fa84639adcc0727e968f99ad222c8146810c ("cpufreq: stats: Fix locking") +----------------------+------------+------------+ | | 0063f8602b | 2136fa8463 | +----------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 9 | 9 | | boot_failures | 1 | 1 | | BUG:kernel_boot_hang | 1 | 1 | +----------------------+------------+------------+ [ 24.295182] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1972K (ffff880001a13000 - ffff880001c00000) [ 24.304471] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1780K (ffff880002043000 - ffff880002200000) [ 24.704332] acpi-cpufreq: overriding BIOS provided _PSD data [ 24.716589] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1241 [ 24.726087] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 2393, name: modprobe [ 24.726092] CPU: 21 PID: 2393 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.18.0-g0a0a28c #1 [ 24.726093] Hardware name: Supermicro H8DGU/H8DGU, BIOS 2.0 09/08/11 [ 24.726097] 00000000000004d9 ffff8810071a3ae8 ffffffff81a02d59 000000000f340f34 [ 24.726099] ffffffff81effec4 ffff8810071a3af8 ffffffff8110adca ffff8810071a3b28 [ 24.726101] ffffffff8110ae7d 0000000000000000 00000000000080d0 ffff88040f803b00 [ 24.726102] Call Trace: [ 24.726111] [] dump_stack+0x4c/0x65 [ 24.726117] [] ___might_sleep+0x10e/0x110 [ 24.726119] [] __might_sleep+0xb1/0xb9 [ 24.726123] [] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x48/0x1e6 [ 24.726128] [] ? __cpufreq_stats_create_table+0x68/0x194 [ 24.726131] [] __cpufreq_stats_create_table+0x68/0x194 [ 24.726138] [] cpufreq_stat_notifier_policy+0x1b/0x32 [ 24.726141] [] notifier_call_chain+0x6d/0x95 [ 24.726143] [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x4a/0x63 [ 24.726145] [] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x16 [ 24.726148] [] __cpufreq_add_dev+0x71d/0x8ce [ 24.726150] [] cpufreq_add_dev+0xe/0x10 [ 24.726154] [] subsys_interface_register+0xb8/0xdf [ 24.726157] [] cpufreq_register_driver+0x156/0x268 [ 24.726159] [] ? 0xffffffffa009f000 [ 24.726163] [] acpi_cpufreq_init+0x220/0x1000 [acpi_cpufreq] [ 24.726165] [] ? 0xffffffffa009f000 [ 24.726168] [] do_one_initcall+0xfd/0x18f [ 24.726172] [] ? __vunmap+0xac/0xb7 [ 24.726176] [] load_module+0x1a35/0x1ff7 [ 24.726179] [] ? kernel_read+0x48/0x5f [ 24.726183] [] SyS_finit_module+0x85/0x92 [ 24.726187] [] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 [ 25.539283] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000613 [ 25.544884] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06000613 [ 25.550137] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x06000613 Thanks, Huang, Ying