FYI, we noticed the below changes on https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma mm-vmscan-node-lru-v2r25 commit 7afa13d0bac733288e6b45bbb17a7f4c3960523e ("mm, vmscan: Move LRU lists to node") +------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 47f7608253 | 7afa13d0ba | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 2 | 0 | | boot_failures | 8 | 12 | | IP-Config:Auto-configuration_of_network_failed | 8 | | | ptr_deref_or_user_memory_accessgeneral_protection_fault:#[##]SMP_KASAN | 0 | 12 | | RIP:cpu_vm_stats_fold | 0 | 12 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 0 | 12 | | backtrace:debug_hotplug_cpu | 0 | 12 | | backtrace:kernel_init_freeable | 0 | 12 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 5.548506] rtc-test rtc-test.0: setting system clock to 2016-01-26 09:20:10 UTC (1453800010) [ 5.550633] Unregister pv shared memory for cpu 0 [ 5.558220] kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled [ 5.558752] kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory accessgeneral protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN [ 5.561515] Modules linked in: [ 5.562365] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1-00005-g7afa13d #1 [ 5.563991] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 5.565751] task: ffff88002e608000 ti: ffff88002e610000 task.ti: ffff88002e610000 [ 5.567367] RIP: 0010:[] [] cpu_vm_stats_fold+0x285/0x35a [ 5.569171] RSP: 0018:ffff88002e617a98 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 5.570174] RAX: 000000000001efe0 RBX: 000000000001efe1 RCX: 0000000000003dfc [ 5.571369] RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff880038740c80 [ 5.572566] RBP: ffff88002e617bf0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000002 [ 5.573759] R10: ffff88002e6bfb90 R11: ffffed0005cc2f6d R12: ffff880038740c88 [ 5.574952] R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88003873d000 R15: ffff88002e617ae8 [ 5.576150] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88002eb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 5.577836] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 5.578888] CR2: 00007fa3ebbe4a30 CR3: 0000000005e0c000 CR4: 00000000000406a0 [ 5.580082] Stack: [ 5.580740] 1ffffffff0c07388 ffffffff86039c40 ffff88002ea1f051 ffff88002e617b08 [ 5.582615] 1ffff10005cc2f59 ffff88003873dd78 0000000041b58ab3 ffffffff85c86100 [ 5.584480] ffffffff8521ace2 ffffea0000fff000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 5.586355] Call Trace: [ 5.587070] [] ? inc_node_state+0x15/0x15 [ 5.588112] [] ? free_pcppages_bulk+0x1fb/0x27c [ 5.589210] [] ? next_zone+0x46/0x49 [ 5.590210] [] page_alloc_cpu_notify+0x2e/0x3c [ 5.591301] [] notifier_call_chain+0xb0/0xf6 [ 5.592374] [] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0xb [ 5.593485] [] __cpu_notify+0x1b/0x30 [ 5.594497] [] cpu_notify+0xe/0x10 [ 5.595476] [] cpu_notify_nofail+0x9/0x11 [ 5.596517] [] _cpu_down+0x2d6/0x58e [ 5.597514] [] ? free_debug_processing+0x19a/0x21b [ 5.598646] [] ? cpu_hotplug_done+0x1d/0x1d [ 5.599706] [] ? ___might_sleep+0x64/0x23a [ 5.600759] [] cpu_down+0x25/0x32 [ 5.601730] [] _debug_hotplug_cpu+0x4b/0x141 [ 5.602796] [] ? topology_init+0xd3/0xd3 [ 5.603836] [] debug_hotplug_cpu+0xd/0x11 [ 5.604883] [] do_one_initcall+0x1aa/0x265 [ 5.605939] [] ? try_to_run_init_process+0x31/0x31 [ 5.607069] [] ? parse_args+0x4e1/0x62b [ 5.608098] [] kernel_init_freeable+0x2b9/0x34f [ 5.609196] [] ? rest_init+0xaf/0xaf [ 5.610195] [] kernel_init+0xc/0xee [ 5.611180] [] ? rest_init+0xaf/0xaf [ 5.612183] [] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [ 5.613208] [] ? rest_init+0xaf/0xaf [ 5.614207] Code: 00 00 4d 8d a6 88 3c 00 00 4c 8d bd f8 fe ff ff 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d 58 01 48 89 d9 48 89 de 48 c1 e9 03 83 e6 07 <42> 8a 0c 29 40 38 f1 7f 0c 84 c9 74 08 48 89 df e8 6f 53 04 00 [ 5.621660] RIP [] cpu_vm_stats_fold+0x285/0x35a [ 5.622832] RSP [ 5.623669] ---[ end trace 757bbc84cd1f3edc ]--- [ 5.624617] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Thanks, Ying Huang