FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: 91d57bae08689199c8acc77a8b3b41150cafab1c ("posix-timers: Make use of forward/remaining callbacks") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master in testcase: syzkaller with following parameters: cpufreq_governor: performance repro_program: repro-d1aff78d.exe on test machine: 8 threads Ivy Bridge with 16G memory caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +----------------+------------+------------+ | | 63841b2a69 | 91d57bae08 | +----------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 7 | 6 | +----------------+------------+------------+ kern :warn : [ 62.897524] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 13269 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:805 hrtimer_forward+0x1f0/0x2e0 kern :warn : [ 62.897905] Modules linked in: x86_pkg_temp_thermal kern :warn : [ 62.898120] CPU: 5 PID: 13269 Comm: repro-d1aff78d. Not tainted 4.12.0-rc3-00201-g91d57bae #1 kern :warn : [ 62.898487] Hardware name: /DZ77BH-55K, BIOS BHZ7710H.86A.0097.2012.1228.1346 12/28/2012 kern :warn : [ 62.898848] task: ffff88034e2cae80 task.stack: ffff8803463e8000 kern :warn : [ 62.899079] RIP: 0010:hrtimer_forward+0x1f0/0x2e0 kern :warn : [ 62.899284] RSP: 0018:ffff8803463efcf8 EFLAGS: 00010097 kern :warn : [ 62.899528] RAX: ffff88034e2cae80 RBX: ffff88033d09e0a0 RCX: 0000000000000018 kern :warn : [ 62.899777] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 14c66821f7181be7 RDI: ffff88033d09e0d8 kern :warn : [ 62.900025] RBP: ffff8803463efd40 R08: ffffffff863e9b08 R09: 0000000000000001 kern :warn : [ 62.900275] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88034e2cae80 R12: 14c66804adea7333 kern :warn : [ 62.900542] R13: 0000001d492da8b4 R14: 14c66821f7181be7 R15: 1bc16d674ec80000 kern :warn : [ 62.900788] FS: 00007f7addb2b800(0000) GS:ffff88037bf40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 kern :warn : [ 62.901124] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 kern :warn : [ 62.901357] CR2: 0000000020003fe0 CR3: 0000000351f89000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 kern :warn : [ 62.901611] Call Trace: kern :warn : [ 62.901787] common_hrtimer_forward+0x4b/0x60 kern :warn : [ 62.901990] common_timer_get+0x3e1/0x4d0 kern :warn : [ 62.903854] ? common_hrtimer_rearm+0x190/0x190 kern :warn : [ 62.904059] ? __lock_timer+0x270/0x400 kern :warn : [ 62.904252] ? common_hrtimer_rearm+0x190/0x190 kern :warn : [ 62.904473] SyS_timer_gettime+0x110/0x210 kern :warn : [ 62.904667] ? SyS_timer_create+0x1130/0x1130 kern :warn : [ 62.904872] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xbe kern :warn : [ 62.905080] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x3f4/0x560 kern :warn : [ 62.905291] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c kern :warn : [ 62.905528] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe kern :warn : [ 62.905731] RIP: 0033:0x7f7add652d49 kern :warn : [ 62.905917] RSP: 002b:00007fff3eda8578 EFLAGS: 00000216 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e0 kern :warn : [ 62.906239] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f7add652d49 kern :warn : [ 62.906511] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020003000 RDI: 0000000000000000 kern :warn : [ 62.906757] RBP: 0000000000000046 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 kern :warn : [ 62.907001] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000216 R12: 0000000000400a10 kern :warn : [ 62.907246] R13: 00007fff3eda8720 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 kern :warn : [ 62.907512] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe kern :warn : [ 62.907726] Code: 49 bc ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 7f e9 6a ff ff ff 48 b8 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 7f e9 25 ff ff ff 45 31 ff e9 78 ff ff ff e8 a0 24 0c 00 <0f> ff 45 31 ff e9 69 ff ff ff e8 91 24 0c 00 4d 85 ff 4d 89 fe kern :warn : [ 62.908422] ---[ end trace a44641c07abb14ba ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/01org/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp install job.yaml # job file is attached in this email bin/lkp run job.yaml Thanks, Kernel Test Robot