FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 7da66670775d201f633577f5b15a4bbeebaaa2b0 ("crypto: testmgr - add AES-CFB tests") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master in testcase: tcrypt with following parameters: period: 2s modes: 200-204 ucode: 0xb00002e cpufreq_governor: performance on test machine: 88 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz with 128G memory caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): 2018-11-20 17:49:13 /sbin/modprobe tcrypt sec=2 mode=200 2018-11-20 17:54:55 /sbin/modprobe tcrypt sec=2 mode=201 2018-11-20 17:55:56 /sbin/modprobe tcrypt sec=2 mode=202 2018-11-20 18:00:57 /sbin/modprobe tcrypt sec=2 mode=203 2018-11-20 18:02:58 /sbin/modprobe tcrypt sec=2 mode=204 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, Rong Chen