Greetings, I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is commit 84550b9356af50c7cbd6b6ce6e8fd06585eebf14 Author: Al Viro Date: Sun Sep 29 22:06:07 2013 -0400 RCU'd vfsmounts _very_ preliminary, barely tested. Signed-off-by: Al Viro [ 3.509455] power_supply test_battery: prop VOLTAGE_NOW=3300 Kernel tests: Boot OK! [ 70.923628] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 70.928604] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 479 at fs/dcache.c:385 d_lru_del+0x15f/0x190() [ 70.933837] Modules linked in: [ 70.951217] CPU: 1 PID: 479 Comm: umount Not tainted 3.12.0-00649-g32a440b #89 [ 70.956272] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 70.960968] ffffffff cca87e04 c1c05539 00000000 00000000 00000181 cca87e34 c1064306 [ 70.966287] c1ec447c 00000001 000001df c1ed6158 00000181 c11d221f c11d221f 00000001 [ 70.971684] cea83e80 00000001 cca87e44 c10643c2 00000009 00000000 cca87e58 c11d221f [ 70.977076] Call Trace: [ 70.981446] [] dump_stack+0x7d/0xb0 [ 70.986142] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x96/0xb0 [ 70.990978] [] ? d_lru_del+0x15f/0x190 [ 70.995755] [] ? d_lru_del+0x15f/0x190 [ 71.000432] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x30 [ 71.005244] [] d_lru_del+0x15f/0x190 [ 71.009871] [] umount_collect+0x14f/0x190 [ 71.014502] [] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x42/0xb0 [ 71.019072] [] d_walk+0xc7/0x3d0 [ 71.023599] [] ? dentry_lru_del+0x70/0x70 [ 71.028535] [] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x8b/0x150 [ 71.033510] [] generic_shutdown_super+0xc7/0x1a0 [ 71.038858] [] kill_litter_super+0x3a/0x50 [ 71.043563] [] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x70 [ 71.048629] [] deactivate_super+0x96/0xb0 [ 71.053511] [] mntput_no_expire+0x1d6/0x200 [ 71.058174] [] SyS_umount+0x121/0x5e0 [ 71.063860] [] SyS_oldumount+0x1e/0x20 [ 71.068699] [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 71.073363] ---[ end trace 6b92dd3d08e2681d ]--- [ 71.078672] ------------[ cut here ]------------ git bisect start 32a440b38c2b6f2f927b8e294e4877fe505f9653 5e01dc7b26d9f24f39abace5da98ccbd6a5ceb52 -- git bisect good 1e7a6935bccc8d16596b2f72d4162eadb0a5f2d0 # 10:35 17+ 3 Merge 'tip/perf/core' into devel-roam-i386-201311072347 git bisect good 6f7dbe7290a3c2af9ccf75c7e219dfc1ee762b05 # 11:04 17+ 0 Merge 'at91/nfe/at91-3.14-cleanup+test-new' into devel-roam-i386-201311072347 git bisect bad 5d4c247511b3030ca14d7b2d12e2f206bbccb7d1 # 11:19 0- 4 locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag git bisect bad 84550b9356af50c7cbd6b6ce6e8fd06585eebf14 # 11:37 0- 4 RCU'd vfsmounts git bisect good 6339dab869e07a81abd22970696dde6febee094a # 11:55 20+ 0 do_remount(): pull touch_mnt_namespace() up git bisect good 474279dc0f7745124fc76b474c8dc1294f8e87ce # 12:10 20+ 1 split __lookup_mnt() in two functions git bisect good baa40671d3e3b590a33b2c0e022db61cbebf5c00 # 12:31 20+ 0 autofs4: make freeing sbi rcu-delayed git bisect good 1dcddd4abd2c6df7f28928ad5cafa4a1cd20030b # 12:43 20+ 0 ncpfs: rcu-delay unload_nls() and freeing ncp_server git bisect good dd3e2c55a45fe75f3213b17b74f9a32380f4e84b # 12:51 20+ 0 fuse: rcu-delay freeing fuse_conn git bisect good dd3e2c55a45fe75f3213b17b74f9a32380f4e84b # 12:54 60+ 0 fuse: rcu-delay freeing fuse_conn git bisect bad 32a440b38c2b6f2f927b8e294e4877fe505f9653 # 12:54 0- 19 Merge 'vfs/for-next' into devel-roam-i386-201311072347 git bisect good 6c86ae2928f9e4cbf0d5844f5fcfd549e3450b8c # 13:28 60+ 4 Merge tag 'ftrace-urgent-3.12-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Thanks, Fengguang