Hi, I can reproduce this easily when running CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y kernels inside KVM. Older kernels like 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 don't have these warning messages, but just randomly hang during boot. I'm not sure if this is a relevant problem, but anyway, here is the bug report. INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 1} (t=15003 jiffies) Pid: 8, comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 3.5.0-rc3-wl+ #11 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810a1e35>] __rcu_pending+0xc2/0x3c3 [<ffffffff8107a1bc>] ? tick_nohz_handler+0xd5/0xd5 [<ffffffff810a3052>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x9d/0x149 [<ffffffff81061b01>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xbb/0xcc [<ffffffff8103db27>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x72 [<ffffffff8107a228>] tick_sched_timer+0x6c/0x95 [<ffffffff81061b21>] ? local_clock+0xf/0x3c [<ffffffff810537d3>] __run_hrtimer+0xcf/0x1d1 [<ffffffff810541c6>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xc6/0x191 [<ffffffff817bc52a>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x86/0x99 [<ffffffff817bb51c>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6c/0x80 <EOI> [<ffffffff81030a8c>] ? console_unlock+0x21b/0x2c5 [<ffffffff813304a1>] ? update_attr.isra.1+0x8a/0x8a [<ffffffff8132b7a7>] fb_flashcursor+0x114/0x123 [<ffffffff81048529>] process_one_work+0x238/0x45c [<ffffffff8104848c>] ? process_one_work+0x19b/0x45c [<ffffffff8132b693>] ? get_color+0xfd/0xfd [<ffffffff8104876e>] process_scheduled_works+0x21/0x2f [<ffffffff810488f5>] worker_thread+0x179/0x240 Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html