On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 04:53:16PM +0800, David Gow wrote:
> Le 17/02/2026 à 10:10 PM, 'Mark Brown' via KUnit Development a écrit :

> > When running KUnit via qemu on current mailine I'm seeing random
> > lockups, frequently but not always reporting an RCU stall.
> > Unfortunately these don't seem to happen in a consistent place which
> > makes it hard to figure out exactly what's going on, they started in

> Hmm… I haven't seen this yet on x86_64, but looking at arm64 and 32-bit
> i386, I do see a sporadic panic, often with rcu in the stacktrace. Seems to
> happen more often when the KUnit test kthread is starting/stopping
> (particularly, at least on i386, if it's due to a trapped fault).

I did see this on x86_64 FWIW.

> I've not been able to reproduce it after reverting the kthread affinity
> series (git revert -m1 d16738a4e79e55b2c3c9ff4fb7b74a4a24723515), but that
> could just be due to luck. It's flaky enough that my attempt at bisection
> kept pointing at documentation patches.

Yeah, it's not reliably reproducible though it happens pretty often.  I
did try things like retrying N times to see if it fails but I have a
horrible feeling there's some dependency on the specific build somehow.
Hopefully not.

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