Hi, I am regulary running some tests with qemu-system-cris, but getting following stacktraces on boot now (with 4.8.6, 4.7.9 worked fine):
[ 7.260691] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference [ 7.260919] Linux 4.8.6-1 #4 Sun Nov 6 17:48:18 CET 2016 [ 7.260955] Oops: 0000 [ 7.260999] CPU: 0 [ 7.261064] ERP: c0024b82 SRP: c0024b7a CCS: 0e00a008 USP: af9dfd24 MOF: e79a1af9 [ 7.261110] r0: 00000000 r1: 00000000 r2: c020091a r3: c004da14 [ 7.261161] r4: c0084714 r5: c04522b4 r6: c00441f2 r7: c004351a [ 7.261214] r8: c00435c2 r9: c1e5fdc0 r10: c1e5fdbc r11: 00000000 [ 7.261265] r12: c00b6ee0 r13: c1e5fdc4 oR10: c1e5fdbc acr: c1e5fdc0 [ 7.261286] sp: c1e5fd50 [ 7.261311] Data MMU Cause: 00000117 [ 7.261334] Instruction MMU Cause: 3aaca017 [ 7.261379] Process mkdir (pid: 26, stackpage=c1f0f440) [ 7.261439] [ 7.261439] Stack from af9dfd24: [ 7.261439] [ 7.261516] 00000004 00000012 [ 7.261567] 00000001 00000000 [ 7.261591] 00000000 00000001 [ 7.261615] 000041ed 00000010 [ 7.261644] [ 7.261644] 00000000 [ 7.261683] 00000000 00000000 [ 7.261707] 00000000 00000000 [ 7.261729] 00000000 00000000 [ 7.261754] 00002000 [ 7.261762] [ 7.261774] 00000000 00000000 [ 7.261797] 00000000 08583b00 [ 7.261822] 00000002 3ab1bbe0 [ 7.261850] 3ab0c238 3aac93b2 [ 7.261895] [ 7.261895] Call Trace: [ 7.262003] Stack from c1e5fc54: [ 7.262003] [ 7.262021] c1e5fd50 c00047b8 [ 7.262049] af9dfd24 c1e5fd9c [ 7.262077] 3aaca017 c000553e [ 7.262105] c1e5fdc0 e79a1af9 [ 7.262128] [ 7.262128] c0042a70 [ 7.262155] c01c00c4 00000000 [ 7.262181] c1e5fd50 c1e401b4 [ 7.262208] c00048da 00000000 [ 7.262233] c1e5fd50 [ 7.262241] [ 7.262256] c1f0f440 00000000 [ 7.262281] c0004f9c 00c02008 [ 7.262306] 00000000 00000000 [ 7.262331] c020091a c004da14 [ 7.262355] [ 7.262355] Call Trace: [<c00047b8>] show_stack+0x0/0x8c [ 7.263279] [<c000553e>] show_registers+0x14e/0x1c6 [ 7.263314] [<c0042a70>] printk+0x0/0x2c [ 7.263345] [<c00048da>] die_if_kernel+0x6c/0x96 [ 7.263383] [<c0004f9c>] do_page_fault+0x2c6/0x34a [ 7.263417] [<c004da14>] __put_page+0x0/0x40 [ 7.263464] [<c0084714>] simple_readpage+0x0/0x72 [ 7.263500] [<c00441f2>] pagecache_get_page+0x0/0x1c6 [ 7.263532] [<c004351a>] unlock_page+0x0/0x3c [ 7.263563] [<c00435c2>] __lock_page+0x0/0x74 [ 7.263598] [<c01632a2>] down_read+0x0/0x12 [ 7.263635] [<c005e89e>] find_vma+0x12/0x54 [ 7.263665] [<c0025340>] up_read+0xc/0x12 [ 7.263696] [<c0004e9a>] do_page_fault+0x1c4/0x34a [ 7.263731] [<c00081aa>] d_mmu_refill+0x10a/0x112 [ 7.263761] [<c004da14>] __put_page+0x0/0x40 [ 7.263793] [<c0084714>] simple_readpage+0x0/0x72 [ 7.263827] [<c00441f2>] pagecache_get_page+0x0/0x1c6 [ 7.263859] [<c004351a>] unlock_page+0x0/0x3c [ 7.263890] [<c00435c2>] __lock_page+0x0/0x74 [ 7.263925] [<c00b6ee0>] memset+0xf6/0x138 [ 7.263961] [<c0024b7a>] __wake_up_bit+0x1c/0x44 [ 7.263996] [<c0024b82>] __wake_up_bit+0x24/0x44 [ 7.264029] [<c004354e>] unlock_page+0x34/0x3c [ 7.264060] [<c008477e>] simple_readpage+0x6a/0x72 [ 7.264095] [<c00444a0>] do_read_cache_page+0xaa/0x252 [ 7.264125] [<c0071652>] page_get_link+0x0/0xcc [ 7.264154] [<c007105a>] path_put+0x0/0x24 [ 7.264187] [<c0044660>] read_cache_page+0x18/0x20 [ 7.264218] [<c00716d2>] page_get_link+0x80/0xcc [ 7.264250] [<c0072df2>] trailing_symlink+0x12a/0x184 [ 7.264281] [<c007389c>] link_path_walk+0x0/0x358 [ 7.264311] [<c0073cd0>] path_lookupat+0x84/0xe8 [ 7.264341] [<c0073c4c>] path_lookupat+0x0/0xe8 [ 7.264372] [<c0074362>] user_path_at_empty+0x0/0x3e [ 7.264404] [<c006d516>] vfs_getattr_nosec+0x0/0x32 [ 7.264436] [<c00742a4>] filename_lookup+0x5c/0xa6 [ 7.264469] [<c0074028>] getname_flags+0x22/0x170 [ 7.264500] [<c0074394>] user_path_at_empty+0x32/0x3e [ 7.264533] [<c006d688>] vfs_fstatat+0x4a/0x88 [ 7.264566] [<c006d6da>] vfs_stat+0x14/0x1a [ 7.264630] [<c006dda6>] SyS_stat64+0x16/0x32 [ 7.264662] [<c007445c>] filename_create+0x0/0xf4 [ 7.264694] [<c0075946>] SyS_mkdirat+0x3e/0xa6 [ 7.264725] [<c00759c2>] SyS_mkdir+0x14/0x1a [ 7.264756] [<c000523a>] _syscall_traced+0x22/0x2a [ 7.264773] [ 7.264773] Code: 09 00 2e a6 0c e1 ef 2b 10 e1 ef 1b (60) fa ef 06 12 30 4c d2 2e d6 41 c2 [ 7.265174] ---[ end trace 7fbf74436dc80fa8 ]--- .. I bisected it and the error occurs since commit: commit 599d0c954f91d0689c9bb421b5bc04ea02437a41 Author: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net> Date: Thu Jul 28 15:45:31 2016 -0700 mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node Any idea how to fix this? best regards Waldemar