FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: f13c8e8c58ba3b535f1e4cb9e62b50ab37dd69bb ("x86/mm: Reinitialize TLB state on hotplug and resume") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git x86/fixes 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): +-------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | e7d0c41ecc | f13c8e8c58 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 0 | 0 | | boot_failures | 8 | 8 | | BUG:-#unexpected_failures(out_of#)-debugging_disabled!| | 8 | 8 | | WARNING:at_arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:#initialize_tlbstate_and_flush | 0 | 8 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:245 initialize_tlbstate_and_flush+0x54/0xd1 [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.13.0-04258-gf13c8e8 #1 [ 0.000000] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014 [ 0.000000] task: ffffffff89a14500 task.stack: ffffffff89a00000 [ 0.000000] RIP: 0010:initialize_tlbstate_and_flush+0x54/0xd1 [ 0.000000] RSP: 0000:ffffffff89a03e78 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 0.000000] RAX: 00000000000006b0 RBX: ffffffff89a5a4a0 RCX: 0000000004a0f000 [ 0.000000] RDX: 0000000004a0f000 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: 0000000009a0f000 [ 0.000000] RBP: ffffffff89a03e88 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8e73195bdc40 [ 0.000000] R10: ffffffff89a03e90 R11: ffffffff8a4fd72c R12: 0000000000000000 [ 0.000000] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff89a14500 [ 0.000000] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e7319200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 0.000000] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 0.000000] CR2: ffff8e7305db1000 CR3: 0000000004a0f000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] cpu_init+0x1b3/0x2d2 [ 0.000000] trap_init+0x3f/0x51 [ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x275/0x4dc [ 0.000000] x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26 [ 0.000000] x86_64_start_kernel+0x6e/0x71 [ 0.000000] secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xa5 [ 0.000000] Code: 00 f0 ff ff ff ff ff 7f 48 21 ca 48 39 c2 74 02 0f ff 48 8b 05 d2 74 ac 00 a8 01 74 10 65 48 8b 05 c2 1f fe 76 0f ba e0 11 72 02 <0f> ff 48 81 e1 00 f0 ff ff 48 89 cf e8 ad f9 ff ff 48 8b 83 80 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 51518f681227b679 ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Xiaolong