BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:2:184]
Modules linked in: nls_utf8 btrfs xor raid6_pq ufs qnx4 hfsplus hfs minix ntfs msdos jfs xfs libcrc32c bnep snd_ens1371 coretemp rfcomm bluetooth snd_ac97_codec 6lowpan_iphc ac97_bus kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel gameport aes_x86_64 snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event lrw snd_rawmidi gf128mul snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer snd glue_helper soundcore ablk_helper cryptd serio_raw vmw_balloon vmw_vmci vmwgfx i2c_piix4 ttm drm_kms_helper drm shpchp mac_hid parport_pc ppdev lp parport hid_generic usbhid hid psmouse mptspi mptscsih e1000 ahci mptbase libahci scsi_transport_spi pata_acpi floppy vmw_pvscsi vmxnet3
CPU: 0 PID: 184 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.16.0-20-generic #27-Ubuntu
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/31/2013
Workqueue: events_freezable vmballoon_work [vmw_balloon]
task: ffff8800b4236540 ti: ffff880000054000 task.ti: ffff880000054000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc04238cb>]  [<ffffffffc04238cb>] vmballoon_work+0x61b/0x7dc [vmw_balloon]
RSP: 0018:ffff880000057db8  EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 01ffff0000000000 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: 0000000000005670 RSI: 00000000000556ce RDI: ffffea000155b380
RBP: ffff880000057e10 R08: 0000000000003d08 R09: 0000000000000282
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff880101ffa780 R12: 0000000000092a35
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff880100e17b98 R15: 0000000200000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880100e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f00fec36000 CR3: 000000005581b000 CR4: 00000000000407f0
Stack:
 ffffffff810cd74c ffffffff81cb1ca0 ffff880036446f00 ffffffffc0425400
 0000400000e18200 0000000000003d07 ffffffffc0425500 ffff880036446f00
 ffff880100e14000 ffff880100e18500 0000000000000000 ffff880000057e50
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810cd74c>] ? console_unlock+0x25c/0x420
 [<ffffffff8108d852>] process_one_work+0x182/0x4e0
 [<ffffffff8108dc1b>] worker_thread+0x6b/0x6a0
 [<ffffffff81781cdd>] ? __schedule+0x39d/0x890
 [<ffffffff8108dbb0>] ? process_one_work+0x4e0/0x4e0
 [<ffffffff81094a5b>] kthread+0xdb/0x100
 [<ffffffff81094980>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1c0/0x1c0
 [<ffffffff81786ffc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff81094980>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1c0/0x1c0
Code: 83 ec 20 45 89 f0 4c 8b 75 c0 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 83 87 64 ff ff ff 01 48 89 f3 ba 70 56 00 00 b9 03 00 00 00 b8 6f 6d 6c 45 ed <48> 85 c0 74 30 48 83 f8 07 75 08 41 c6 87 2c ff ff ff 01 f6 05