FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: fbc14616f483788afabe77d05bfb99883dc66c73 ("printk: enable printk offloading") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Sergey-Senozhatsky/printk-introduce-printing-kernel-thread/20170330-185752 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 Westmere -m 512M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +-------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | fd8b6b120c | fbc14616f4 | +-------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 8 | | boot_failures | 0 | 6 | | BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage | 0 | 4 | | BUG:kernel_hang_in_test_stage | 0 | 2 | +-------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 21.009531] VFS: Warning: trinity-c2 using old stat() call. Recompile your binary. [ 21.148898] VFS: Warning: trinity-c0 using old stat() call. Recompile your binary. [ 22.298208] warning: process `trinity-c2' used the deprecated sysctl system call with Elapsed time: 310 BUG: kernel reboot-without-warning in test stage initrds=( /osimage/yocto/yocto-tiny-i386-2016-04-22.cgz /lkp/scheduled/vm-kbuild-yocto-ia32-9/trinity-300s-yocto-tiny-i386-2016-04-22.cgz-fbc14616f483788afabe77d05bfb99883dc66c73-20170331-102676-cxuzks-0.cgz /lkp/lkp/lkp-i386.cgz 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