Hi Mel, I've encoutered the same problem as George yesterday running xfstests in qemu with latest git sources: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kswapd0:31] irq event stamp: 9740956 hardirqs last enabled at (9740955): [<ffffffff8166c273>] restore_args+0x0/0x30 hardirqs last disabled at (9740956): [<ffffffff8166d9ad>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 softirqs last enabled at (9740954): [<ffffffff8105c887>] __do_softirq+0x167/0x3d0 softirqs last disabled at (9740949): [<ffffffff8166e0fc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 CPU 0 Pid: 31, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.7.0-rc6+ #232 Bochs Bochs Process kswapd0 (pid: 31, threadinfo ffff88003d2cc000, task ffff88003d2d8000) Call Trace: [<ffffffff8113bb81>] zone_watermark_ok_safe+0x71/0x100 [<ffffffff8113baff>] ? zone_watermark_ok+0x1f/0x30 [<ffffffff8114bd6e>] kswapd+0x2fe/0xd70 [<ffffffff8114ba70>] ? try_to_free_pages+0x830/0x830 [<ffffffff8107f9bd>] kthread+0xed/0x100 [<ffffffff8107f8d0>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff8166cdac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff8107f8d0>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x80/0x80 Code: 4c 2b 8f 00 01 00 00 48 d1 fa 49 39 d1 7e 30 31 c9 eb 20 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 87 58 01 00 00 48 d1 fa 48 83 c7 58 48 d3 e0 <49> 29 c1 49 39 d1 7e 0f 83 c1 01 39 f1 75 e0 b8 01 00 00 00 5d Git bisect pointed me to: c654345924f mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD [adding Rik to Cc:] Prior to this commit I wasn't able to reproduce it. (BTW: I hope I managed to send this mail with proper Reply-To:, strangely your mail and those from Honza were not delivered to my mailbox.) Tom -- 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>