Hi Paul, most of my qemu tests for sparc32 targets started to fail in next-20161129. The problem is only seen in SMP builds; non-SMP builds are fine. Bisect points to commit 2d66cccd73436 ("mm: Prevent __alloc_pages_nodemask() RCU CPU stall warnings"); reverting that commit fixes the problem. Test scripts are available at: https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/sparc Test results are at: https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/sparc Bisect log is attached. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help tracking down the problem. Thanks, Guenter --- # bad: [4030ddad30d69fa041f57a2b742d69889b91e93b] Add linux-next specific files for 20161129 # good: [e5517c2a5a49ed5e99047008629f1cd60246ea0e] Linux 4.9-rc7 git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v4.9-rc7' # good: [d129495078c343c047171844bfa9c3f81d69125c] next-20161128/crypto git bisect good d129495078c343c047171844bfa9c3f81d69125c # good: [64c09c8edb6b4ea872538acd144a72434ae20f07] Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/auto-latest' git bisect good 64c09c8edb6b4ea872538acd144a72434ae20f07 # good: [2d2139c5c746ec61024fdfa9c36e4e034bb18e59] Merge tag 'iio-for-4.10d' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio into staging-next git bisect good 2d2139c5c746ec61024fdfa9c36e4e034bb18e59 # bad: [c927024badfb7d3835bed3c386011c9e2b5b28b8] Merge remote-tracking branch 'char-misc/char-misc-next' git bisect bad c927024badfb7d3835bed3c386011c9e2b5b28b8 # bad: [72910000a4180a2f51f4d29308da6138da8e7229] Merge remote-tracking branch 'tty/tty-next' git bisect bad 72910000a4180a2f51f4d29308da6138da8e7229 # bad: [cda711541e3b7a101f3e1ebe9f17e05c144976bd] Merge remote-tracking branch 'kvm-ppc-paulus/kvm-ppc-next' git bisect bad cda711541e3b7a101f3e1ebe9f17e05c144976bd # bad: [22fa38d8da8ca508c5630b6499acc088dde1dc89] Merge remote-tracking branch 'rcu/rcu/next' git bisect bad 22fa38d8da8ca508c5630b6499acc088dde1dc89 # good: [0f5bacb434cae111078b89df1acaea738c712251] Merge remote-tracking branch 'irqchip/irqchip/for-next' git bisect good 0f5bacb434cae111078b89df1acaea738c712251 # good: [80c099e11c191b0e3c1c7dac2d460cb12d0ea3c7] mm: Prevent shrink_node() RCU CPU stall warnings git bisect good 80c099e11c191b0e3c1c7dac2d460cb12d0ea3c7 # good: [60c1afbf10528f646a6fcae1a2c404d216e594d5] selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for function filter glob match git bisect good 60c1afbf10528f646a6fcae1a2c404d216e594d5 # good: [9b5e3ff6b9baa77548c6cb832780162055733c67] stm dummy: Mark dummy_stm_packet() with notrace git bisect good 9b5e3ff6b9baa77548c6cb832780162055733c67 # bad: [2d66cccd73436ac9985a08e5c2f82e4344f72264] mm: Prevent __alloc_pages_nodemask() RCU CPU stall warnings git bisect bad 2d66cccd73436ac9985a08e5c2f82e4344f72264 # good: [34c53f5cd399801b083047cc9cf2ad3ed17c3144] mm: Prevent shrink_node_memcg() RCU CPU stall warnings git bisect good 34c53f5cd399801b083047cc9cf2ad3ed17c3144 # first bad commit: [2d66cccd73436ac9985a08e5c2f82e4344f72264] mm: Prevent __alloc_pages_nodemask() RCU CPU stall warnings -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>