I realised my original bug report was for a guest kernel compiled without frame pointers which might be unhelpful, so I enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, but I don't think this has made the backtrace any more detailed. Is there anything more I can do to pinpoint what might be going on here? Cheers, Chris. divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 1013 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 3.14.4-guest #21 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 task: ffff88007c8cf400 ti: ffff88007c7c6000 task.ti: ffff88007c7c6000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8102ea86>] [<ffffffff8102ea86>] kvm_unlock_kick+0x69/0x73 RSP: 0000:ffff88007fc83ca8 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff88007fd11d40 RDI: ffffffff8198f840 RBP: ffff88007fc83cc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8198f840 R10: 000000000000b5e0 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: ffff88007fd11d40 R13: 000000000000cec0 R14: ffff88007d382b80 R15: 0000000000000002 FS: 00007f4c6e265700(0000) GS:ffff88007fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f4c6dc9a080 CR3: 000000007c62e000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 Stack: 0000000000011d40 ffff88007fd11d40 0000000000000002 ffff88007fc83cd0 ffffffff815852d0 ffff88007fc83d20 ffffffff810dd694 ffff88007fd00000 0000000000000046 ffff88007d383172 ffff88007d3abe68 0000000000000003 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff815852d0>] _raw_spin_unlock+0x36/0x5b [<ffffffff810dd694>] try_to_wake_up+0x1f4/0x217 [<ffffffff810dd6f6>] default_wake_function+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff810e99f0>] autoremove_wake_function+0xd/0x2f [<ffffffff810e944f>] __wake_up_common+0x50/0x7c [<ffffffff810e962f>] __wake_up+0x34/0x46 [<ffffffff810f3b45>] rsp_wakeup+0x1c/0x1e [<ffffffff81112e31>] irq_work_run+0x77/0x9b [<ffffffff810063e2>] smp_irq_work_interrupt+0x2a/0x31 [<ffffffff8158739d>] irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 [<ffffffff81585336>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x41/0x6a [<ffffffff810f5402>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x162/0x486 [<ffffffff810c4140>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x19f/0x1c0 [<ffffffff810be612>] __do_softirq+0xe1/0x1e9 [<ffffffff810be8b7>] irq_exit+0x40/0x87 [<ffffffff810283f1>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3f/0x4b [<ffffffff81586e9d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 <EOI> Code: c5 40 50 87 81 49 8d 44 0d 00 48 8b 30 4c 39 e6 75 c9 8a 40 08 38 d8 75 c2 48 c7 c0 22 b0 00 00 31 db 0f b7 0c 08 b8 05 00 00 00 <0f> 01 c1 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d c3 4c 8d 54 24 08 48 83 e4 f0 b9 0a RIP [<ffffffff8102ea86>] kvm_unlock_kick+0x69/0x73 RSP <ffff88007fc83ca8> ---[ end trace ed563ea2dedc59b5 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Shutting down cpus with NMI Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html