FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-6): commit: 8230b905a6780c60372bf5df7bf5f23041ca3196 ("selftests: mqueue: Use full path to run tests from Makefile") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master in testcase: kernel_selftests with following parameters: test-description: The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/ directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual code paths in the kernel. test-url: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kselftest.txt on test machine: 88 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz with 64G memory caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): 2017-09-29 19:38:09 make run_tests -C mqueue make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-selftests-x86_64-rhel-7.2-8230b905a6780c60372bf5df7bf5f23041ca3196/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue' gcc -O2 mq_open_tests.c -lrt -lpthread -lpopt -o /usr/src/linux-selftests-x86_64-rhel-7.2-8230b905a6780c60372bf5df7bf5f23041ca3196/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue/mq_open_tests gcc -O2 mq_perf_tests.c -lrt -lpthread -lpopt -o /usr/src/linux-selftests-x86_64-rhel-7.2-8230b905a6780c60372bf5df7bf5f23041ca3196/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue/mq_perf_tests /usr/src/linux-selftests-x86_64-rhel-7.2-8230b905a6780c60372bf5df7bf5f23041ca3196/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue/mq_open_tests /test1 || echo "selftests: mq_open_tests [FAIL]" /usr/src/linux-selftests-x86_64-rhel-7.2-8230b905a6780c60372bf5df7bf5f23041ca3196/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue//mq_perf_tests || echo "selftests: mq_perf_tests [FAIL]" To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp install job.yaml # job file is attached in this email bin/lkp run job.yaml Thanks, Xiaolong