There exists the following issue under DEBUG_PREEMPT: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: systemd/1 caller is show_cpuinfo+0x460/0xea0 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff8020f0dc>] show_stack+0x94/0x128 [<ffffffff80e6cab4>] dump_stack_lvl+0x94/0xd8 [<ffffffff80e74c5c>] check_preemption_disabled+0x104/0x110 [<ffffffff802209c8>] show_cpuinfo+0x460/0xea0 [<ffffffff80539d54>] seq_read_iter+0xfc/0x4f8 [<ffffffff804fcc10>] new_sync_read+0x110/0x1b8 [<ffffffff804ff57c>] vfs_read+0x1b4/0x1d0 [<ffffffff804ffb18>] ksys_read+0xd0/0x110 [<ffffffff8021c090>] syscall_common+0x34/0x58 We can see the following call trace: show_cpuinfo() cpu_has_fpu current_cpu_data smp_processor_id() $ addr2line -f -e vmlinux 0xffffffff802209c8 show_cpuinfo arch/mips/kernel/proc.c:188 $ head -188 arch/mips/kernel/proc.c | tail -1 if (cpu_has_fpu) arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h # define cpu_has_fpu (current_cpu_data.options & MIPS_CPU_FPU) arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-info.h #define current_cpu_data cpu_data[smp_processor_id()] Based on the above analysis, fix the issue by disabling preemption around cpu_has_fpu in show_cpuinfo(). Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/proc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/proc.c b/arch/mips/kernel/proc.c index 376a6e2..c6c2661 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/proc.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/proc.c @@ -185,8 +185,10 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v) seq_puts(m, " tx39_cache"); if (cpu_has_octeon_cache) seq_puts(m, " octeon_cache"); + preempt_disable(); if (cpu_has_fpu) seq_puts(m, " fpu"); + preempt_enable(); if (cpu_has_32fpr) seq_puts(m, " 32fpr"); if (cpu_has_cache_cdex_p) -- 2.1.0