FYI, we noticed the below changes on https://github.com/alaahl/linux.git for-upstream commit c4e4528a6dbfc0161a9445fdcbc53c26168adda9 ("regression: Disable FENTRY") +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | b32721f46a | c4e4528a6d | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 9 | 0 | | boot_failures | 6 | 13 | | Out_of_memory:Kill_process | 5 | | | BUG:kernel_boot_hang | 1 | | | WARNING:at_kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c:#ftrace_return_to_handler() | 0 | 13 | | backtrace:register_tracer | 0 | 10 | | backtrace:init_graph_trace | 0 | 10 | | backtrace:kernel_init_freeable | 0 | 10 | | backtrace:cpu_startup_entry | 0 | 1 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 2.093113] Testing ftrace regs: PASSED [ 2.192075] Testing tracer function_graph: [ 2.280011] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2.284000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c:223 ftrace_return_to_handler+0x94/0x11f() [ 2.284000] Bad frame pointer: expected ffff880013803e40, received ffff880013803ed0 [ 2.284000] from func __calc_delta return to ffffffff884e5684 [ 2.284000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.3.0-rc6-01764-gc4e4528 #1 [ 2.284000] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 2.284000] 0000000000000000 ffff880013803d40 ffffffff88b30204 ffff880013803d88 [ 2.284000] ffff880013803d78 ffffffff884a7e22 ffffffff88562357 ffffffff885920c9 [ 2.284000] ffff8800138151c0 000000000002b800 ffff880012be0060 ffff880013803de0 [ 2.284000] Call Trace: [ 2.284000] [] dump_stack+0x72/0x9d [ 2.284000] [] warn_slowpath_common+0xbc/0xd5 [ 2.284000] [] ? ftrace_return_to_handler+0x94/0x11f [ 2.284000] [] ? devm_memunmap+0x85/0x85 [ 2.284000] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x48/0x50 [ 2.284000] [] ? __calc_delta+0x20/0x176 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_return_to_handler+0x94/0x11f [ 2.284000] [] ? sched_slice+0xf3/0x102 [ 2.284000] [] ? sched_slice+0xf3/0x102 [ 2.284000] [] return_to_handler+0x15/0x27 [ 2.284000] [] ? ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] sched_slice+0xf3/0x102 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] entity_tick+0x965/0xa30 [ 2.284000] [] ? task_tick_fair+0x37/0x67 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] entity_tick+0x7dc/0xa30 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] entity_tick+0x2af/0xa30 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] task_tick_fair+0x37/0x67 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] scheduler_tick+0x56/0x92 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] update_process_times+0x5a/0x67 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x94/0x94 [ 2.284000] [] tick_periodic+0x83/0x85 [ 2.284000] [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x87/0x90 [ 2.284000] [] ? amd_sched_process_job+0x9/0xb0 [ 2.284000] [] ? amd_sched_process_job+0x9/0xb0 [ 2.284000] [] ? hash_contains_ip+0x22/0x5a [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_get_addr_new+0x29/0xa2 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_replace_code+0x1b6/0x3f8 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_modify_all_code+0x41/0xca [ 2.284000] [] arch_ftrace_update_code+0x10/0x19 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_run_update_code+0x1e/0x3f [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_startup_enable+0x32/0x34 [ 2.284000] [] ftrace_startup+0x1c5/0x1e1 [ 2.284000] [] ? trace_graph_function+0x78/0x78 [ 2.284000] [] register_ftrace_graph+0x241/0x25e [ 2.284000] [] ? ftrace_dump+0x1fd/0x1fd [ 2.284000] [] trace_selftest_startup_function_graph+0x55/0xdf [ 2.284000] [] register_tracer+0x12a/0x218 [ 2.284000] [] ? init_graph_tracefs+0x32/0x32 [ 2.284000] [] init_graph_trace+0x62/0x64 [ 2.284000] [] do_one_initcall+0x131/0x224 [ 2.284000] [] kernel_init_freeable+0x10e/0x1d1 [ 2.284000] [] ? rest_init+0x8c/0x8c [ 2.284000] [] kernel_init+0xe/0x144 [ 2.284000] [] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [ 2.284000] [] ? rest_init+0x8c/0x8c [ 2.284000] ---[ end trace 62f2af1e4e86c781 ]--- [ 2.284000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 4.3.0-rc6-01764-gc4e4528 #1 Thanks, Ying Huang