FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-4.9): commit: ab1bcc442070315bd0ce963331d5bb93d5c5476e ("x86/vdso: Move out the CPU number store") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Chang-S-Bae/x86-fsgsbase-64-Introduce-FS-GS-base-helper-functions/20180605-095329 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): +-------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 053d1414b3 | ab1bcc4420 | +-------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 0 | | boot_failures | 0 | 8 | | BUG:kernel_hang_in_boot_stage | 0 | 8 | +-------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 0.000000] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns [ 0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1 [ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 342 pages/cpu @(ptrval) s1371088 r0 d29744 u1400832 [ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s1371088 r0 d29744 u1400832 alloc=342*4096 [ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 BUG: kernel hang in boot stage Linux version 4.17.0-rc3-00290-gab1bcc4 #1 Command line: ip=::::vm-vp-quantal-i386-50::dhcp root=/dev/ram0 user=lkp job=/lkp/scheduled/vm-vp-quantal-i386-50/boot-1-quantal-core-i386.cgz-ab1bcc442070315bd0ce963331d5bb93d5c5476e-20180610-7731-3wa87x-0.yaml ARCH=i386 kconfig=i386-randconfig-h1-06101053 branch=linux-devel/devel-catchup-201806101444 commit=ab1bcc442070315bd0ce963331d5bb93d5c5476e BOOT_IMAGE=/pkg/linux/i386-randconfig-h1-06101053/gcc-4.9/ab1bcc442070315bd0ce963331d5bb93d5c5476e/vmlinuz-4.17.0-rc3-00290-gab1bcc4 max_uptime=600 RESULT_ROOT=/result/boot/1/vm-vp-quantal-i386/quantal-core-i386.cgz/i386-randconfig-h1-06101053/gcc-4.9/ab1bcc442070315bd0ce963331d5bb93d5c5476e/0 LKP_SERVER=inn debug apic=debug sysrq_always_enabled rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout=100 net.ifnames=0 printk.devkmsg=on panic=-1 softlockup_panic=1 nmi_watchdog=panic oops=panic load_ramdisk=2 prompt_ramdisk=0 drbd.minor_count=8 systemd.log_level=err ignore_loglevel console=tty0 earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 vga=normal rw drbd.minor_count=8 rcuperf.shutdown=0 Elapsed time: 560 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