FYI, we noticed the following commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git x86/vmap_stack commit 817b8ebf33c489948ee5db93ab7ed483619a53a5 ("sched: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") in testcase: boot on test machine: 1 threads qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm with 192M memory caused below changes: +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 2059c482ae | 817b8ebf33 | +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 49 | 42 | | boot_failures | 3 | 8 | | invoked_oom-killer:gfp_mask=0x | 1 | 5 | | Mem-Info | 1 | 5 | | Out_of_memory:Kill_process | 1 | 5 | | backtrace:do_execve | 1 | 1 | | backtrace:SyS_execve | 1 | 1 | | BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel | 2 | | | Oops:#[##] | 2 | | | EIP_is_at_perf_prepare_sample | 2 | | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception_in_interrupt | 2 | | | backtrace:vfs_fstatat | 1 | | | backtrace:SyS_fstatat64 | 1 | | | backtrace:do_sys_open | 1 | | | backtrace:SyS_open | 1 | | | WARNING:at_kernel/fork.c:#free_task | 0 | 7 | | backtrace:_do_fork | 0 | 7 | | backtrace:SyS_clone | 0 | 7 | | backtrace:path_listxattr | 0 | 1 | | backtrace:SyS_llistxattr | 0 | 1 | | backtrace:do_writev | 0 | 1 | | backtrace:SyS_writev | 0 | 1 | | backtrace:process_vm_rw | 0 | 1 | | backtrace:SyS_process_vm_writev | 0 | 1 | +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 45.554450] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 45.555623] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2307 at kernel/fork.c:304 free_task+0x2f/0x4c [ 45.557815] CPU: 0 PID: 2307 Comm: trinity-main Not tainted 4.7.0-rc4-00257-g817b8eb #1 [ 45.577616] oom_reaper: reaped process 2307 (trinity-main), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:72kB [ 45.618976] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 45.621176] 00000000 00000000 c8391e94 c138a35f c8391eb0 c103100c 00000130 c102f285 [ 45.624018] c83e2d40 c7c7ae80 fffffdff c8391ec4 c103108f 00000009 00000000 00000000 [ 45.626839] c8391ed0 c102f285 c83e2d40 c8391f2c c102fb34 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 45.646202] Call Trace: [ 45.667102] [] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [ 45.668288] [] __warn+0xa0/0xb7 [ 45.679428] [] ? free_task+0x2f/0x4c [ 45.680594] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x11/0x16 [ 45.681864] [] free_task+0x2f/0x4c [ 45.683030] [] copy_process+0x476/0x1095 [ 45.684442] [] _do_fork+0xa1/0x1dc [ 45.685586] [] ? ___might_sleep+0x2b/0xe6 [ 45.686831] [] SyS_clone+0x19/0x1b [ 45.688032] [] do_int80_syscall_32+0x44/0x56 [ 45.697264] [] entry_INT80_32+0x2a/0x2a FYI, raw QEMU command line is: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -kernel /pkg/linux/i386-randconfig-b0-07070632/gcc-6/817b8ebf33c489948ee5db93ab7ed483619a53a5/vmlinuz-4.7.0-rc4-00257-g817b8eb -append 'root=/dev/ram0 user=lkp job=/lkp/scheduled/vm-intel12-openwrt-i386-15/validate_boot-1-openwrt-i386.cgz-i386-randconfig-b0-07070632-817b8ebf33c489948ee5db93ab7ed483619a53a5-20160707-101992-1a0dh5i-10.yaml ARCH=i386 kconfig=i386-randconfig-b0-07070632 branch=linux-devel/devel-hourly-2016070702 commit=817b8ebf33c489948ee5db93ab7ed483619a53a5 BOOT_IMAGE=/pkg/linux/i386-randconfig-b0-07070632/gcc-6/817b8ebf33c489948ee5db93ab7ed483619a53a5/vmlinuz-4.7.0-rc4-00257-g817b8eb max_uptime=600 RESULT_ROOT=/result/boot/1/vm-intel12-openwrt-i386/openwrt-i386.cgz/i386-randconfig-b0-07070632/gcc-6/817b8ebf33c489948ee5db93ab7ed483619a53a5/10 LKP_SERVER=inn earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 systemd.log_level=err debug apic=debug sysrq_always_enabled rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout=100 panic=-1 softlockup_panic=1 nmi_watchdog=panic oops=panic load_ramdisk=2 prompt_ramdisk=0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 vga=normal rw ip=::::vm-intel12-openwrt-i386-15::dhcp drbd.minor_count=8' -initrd /fs/KVM/initrd-vm-intel12-openwrt-i386-15 -m 192 -smp 1 -device e1000,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0 -boot order=nc -no-reboot -watchdog i6300esb -rtc base=localtime -drive file=/fs/KVM/disk0-vm-intel12-openwrt-i386-15,media=disk,if=virtio -drive file=/fs/KVM/disk1-vm-intel12-openwrt-i386-15,media=disk,if=virtio -pidfile /dev/shm/kboot/pid-vm-intel12-openwrt-i386-15 -serial file:/dev/shm/kboot/serial-vm-intel12-openwrt-i386-15 -daemonize -display none -monitor null Thanks, Xiaolong