FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: 7898f79654698dcea5a0876785796de67d527ee7 ("x86/mm/64: Fix an incorrect warning with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, !PCID") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master in testcase: boot on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -cpu Haswell,+smep,+smap -m 360M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +-------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 4dfc278803 | 7898f79654 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 4 | | boot_failures | 0 | 4 | | WARNING:at_arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:#initialize_tlbstate_and_flush | 0 | 4 | | EIP:initialize_tlbstate_and_flush | 0 | 4 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:245 initialize_tlbstate_and_flush+0x49/0xef [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.13.0-10313-g7898f79 #1 [ 0.000000] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014 [ 0.000000] task: b243f600 task.stack: b2436000 [ 0.000000] EIP: initialize_tlbstate_and_flush+0x49/0xef [ 0.000000] EFLAGS: 00210046 CPU: 0 [ 0.000000] EAX: 00040690 EBX: b25a57e0 ECX: 00000080 EDX: 00000002 [ 0.000000] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: b2437f60 ESP: b2437f50 [ 0.000000] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 0.000000] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000000 CR3: 0277a000 CR4: 00040690 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] cpu_init+0x98/0x17b [ 0.000000] ? __native_set_fixmap+0x21/0x2a [ 0.000000] trap_init+0x38/0x40 [ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x1f6/0x399 [ 0.000000] i386_start_kernel+0x95/0x99 [ 0.000000] startup_32_smp+0x164/0x166 [ 0.000000] Code: c5 42 b2 89 45 f0 8b 43 20 e8 3d fa ff ff 3b 45 f0 74 02 0f ff a1 a0 7d 6b b2 0f ba e0 11 73 0d a1 c8 3c 45 b2 0f ba e0 11 72 02 <0f> ff 8b 45 f0 ff 15 2c c5 42 b2 66 c7 05 c4 3c 45 b2 00 00 66 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace be658dd14e22cef1 ]--- 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