Greetings!!! Observing kernel warnings at mm/shmem.c:1087 while running stress-ng test. Kernel: 4.18.0-rc2-next-20180629(commit-id: e3c7283c19cd9ba999794f38007389ac83408a78) Machine: Power9-zz(PowerVM LPAR) Test: stress-ng (https://github.com/avocado-framework-tests/avocado-misc-tests/blob/master/generic/stress-ng.py) Attached is .config file. [11919.472532] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 71507 at mm/shmem.c:1087 shmem_evict_inode+0xa4/0x240 [11919.472554] Modules linked in: cuse vfio_iommu_spapr_tce vfio_spapr_eeh vfio hci_vhci bluetooth ecdh_generic rfkill uhid snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer snd soundcore salsa20_generic camellia_generic kvm_pr kvm cast6_generic cast_common serpent_generic twofish_generic twofish_common xts lrw tgr192 uinput wp512 rmd320 ppp_generic rmd256 slhc rmd160 unix_diag rmd128 vhost_net tun vhost tap md4 sha512_generic binfmt_misc vfat fat fuse ext4 mbcache jbd2 loop ip6t_rpfilter ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 xt_conntrack ip_set nfnetlink ebtable_nat ebtable_broute bridge stp llc ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6table_raw iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack iptable_mangle iptable_raw ebtable_filter ebtables [11919.472713] ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter pseries_rng sg ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sd_mod ibmvscsi scsi_transport_srp ibmveth lpfc mlx5_core scsi_transport_fc ptp pps_core devlink dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: zram] [11919.472764] CPU: 4 PID: 71507 Comm: stress-ng-mlock Not tainted 4.18.0-rc2-next-20180629-autotest #1 [11919.472773] NIP: c0000000002c87b4 LR: c0000000002c881c CTR: 0000000000000000 [11919.472781] REGS: c0000003ce8ab900 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (4.18.0-rc2-next-20180629-autotest) [11919.472789] MSR: 8000000000029033 CR: 22008822 XER: 20040000 [11919.472810] CFAR: c0000000002c88ec IRQMASK: 0 [11919.472810] GPR00: c0000000002c881c c0000003ce8abb80 c000000001245100 000000005b39850c [11919.472810] GPR04: 0000000029f7ad2c 0000000000000001 0029f7ad2c836a4e 000000005b39850c [11919.472810] GPR08: 000000000024054a 0000000000000001 000000000000007f 0000000000000001 [11919.472810] GPR12: 0000000022008882 c00000001ec99c00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [11919.472810] GPR16: 00007fffae469598 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000005544 [11919.472810] GPR20: 00007fffac62ffd8 00000000100cf208 0000000000000000 0000000010115641 [11919.472810] GPR24: c000000614c05810 c00000031874f6c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 [11919.472810] GPR28: c0000000c25f8c28 c0000000c25f8c10 c0000000c25f8c10 c0000000c25f8c10 [11919.472903] NIP [c0000000002c87b4] shmem_evict_inode+0xa4/0x240 [11919.472913] LR [c0000000002c881c] shmem_evict_inode+0x10c/0x240 [11919.472919] Call Trace: [11919.472925] [c0000003ce8abb80] [c0000000002c881c] shmem_evict_inode+0x10c/0x240 (unreliable) [11919.472941] [c0000003ce8abbc0] [c0000000003af7ec] evict+0xfc/0x260 [11919.472950] [c0000003ce8abc00] [c0000000003a9468] dentry_unlink_inode+0x148/0x1c0 [11919.472959] [c0000003ce8abc30] [c0000000003aae18] __dentry_kill+0xe8/0x290 [11919.472972] [c0000003ce8abc70] [c0000000003ab044] dentry_kill+0x84/0x2b0 [11919.472980] [c0000003ce8abcb0] [c0000000003ab48c] dput+0x21c/0x240 [11919.472990] [c0000003ce8abd00] [c0000000003898fc] __fput+0x15c/0x2c0 [11919.473003] [c0000003ce8abd60] [c000000000134e20] task_work_run+0x140/0x1a0 [11919.473014] [c0000003ce8abdc0] [c00000000001cb94] do_notify_resume+0x1a4/0x1e0 [11919.473026] [c0000003ce8abe30] [c00000000000b8c4] ret_from_except_lite+0x70/0x74 [11919.473035] Instruction dump: [11919.473042] 48078355 60000000 7fc3f378 7ffefb78 48078345 60000000 7fbdf840 ebff0000 [11919.473060] 409effdc e93c0090 3109ffff 7d284910 <0b090000> e87c0028 4bff87ad 7f83e378 [11919.473076] ---[ end trace 504f00276f802188 ]--- Regards, Venkat.