FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: 45fc8757d1d2128e342b4e7ef39adedf7752faac ("x86: Make the GDT remapping read-only on 64-bit") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/mm in testcase: boot on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 420M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 69218e4799 | 45fc8757d1 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 2 | | boot_failures | 0 | 11 | | BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel | 0 | 11 | | Oops:#[##] | 0 | 11 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 0 | 11 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 4.347219] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffff577060 [ 4.349770] IP: 0xf77e91ed [ 4.351365] PGD 1e0c067 [ 4.351366] P4D 1e0c067 [ 4.352885] PUD 1e0e067 [ 4.354421] PMD 1e0f067 [ 4.355947] PTE 800000000be09161 [ 4.357457] [ 4.360480] Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP [ 4.362150] Modules linked in: [ 4.363816] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.11.0-rc2-00014-g45fc875 #15 [ 4.367207] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014 [ 4.371277] task: ffff88000b9a8000 task.stack: ffffc900000d0000 [ 4.373550] RIP: 0023:0xf77e91ed [ 4.375284] RSP: 002b:00000000ffed034c EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4.377409] RAX: 0000000000000063 RBX: 00000000f77edff0 RCX: 00000000ffed034c [ 4.379996] RDX: 00000000f77e1690 RSI: 00000000f77ee094 RDI: 000000000000000c [ 4.382588] RBP: 00000000ffed0368 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4.385136] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 4.387709] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 4.390289] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88000be00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4.393870] CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4.396131] CR2: ffffffffff577060 CR3: 0000000019d08000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 4.398696] RIP: 0xf77e91ed RSP: 00000000ffed034c [ 4.400716] CR2: ffffffffff577060 [ 4.402425] ---[ end trace 35060e6ad8052d5b ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/01org/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Kernel Test Robot