https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196149 --- Comment #1 from Timothy Pearson (tpearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) --- Upgraded kernel to 4.11 and instead of a host crash, the VM just goes down with: KVM: unknown exit, hardware reason 10b0000 NIP 0000000000000700 LR 00003fffa634812c CTR 00003fffa6367240 XER 0000000000000000 CPU#1 MSR 8000000000001000 HID0 0000000000000000 HF 8000000000000000 iidx 3 didx 3 TB 00000000 00000000 DECR 00000000 GPR00 fffffeffebe4f4a0 00003fffc7854530 00003fffa64a4700 00000100141b0b60 GPR04 00003fffa6730000 00000000000000b0 0000000000000010 0000000000000020 GPR08 0000000000000030 00003fffa6730000 0000000000000000 00000100141b0b60 GPR12 0000000000000001 00003fffa67b22c0 0000000029584808 00000000295847f8 GPR16 00003fffc7854a80 00003fffc7854a7c 00000000295858a8 0000000000000001 GPR20 000557afa0668167 00003fffa6491040 00000000295858b8 00000000295858c0 GPR24 0000000000000000 00003fffc7854940 00003fffa67aab90 00000000000000b0 GPR28 00000100141b0b60 00000000000000b0 00000000000000b0 00000100141b0920 CR 440008b2 [ G G - - - L LO E ] RES ffffffffffffffff FPR00 074673502fd86f4c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 FPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000100141b07d0 00000100141b03c0 FPR08 0000000000000000 000102020101ff00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 FPR12 00003fffa64e00a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 FPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 FPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 FPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 FPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 FPSCR 0000000000000000 SRR0 00003fffa63672c8 SRR1 800000010280f032 PVR 00000000004d0200 VRSAVE 00000000ffffffff SPRG0 0000000000000000 SPRG1 c00000000fb80900 SPRG2 00003fffa67b22c0 SPRG3 0000000000000001 SPRG4 0000000000000000 SPRG5 0000000000000000 SPRG6 0000000000000000 SPRG7 0000000000000000 HSRR0 0000000000000000 HSRR1 0000000000000000 CFAR 0000000000000000 LPCR 000000000184f001 SDR1 0000000000000009 DAR 00003fffa6730000 DSISR 0000000042000000 Message from syslogd@host at Aug 26 17:31:46 ... kernel:[ 909.718710] kvmppc_emulate_mmio: emulation failed (7cc02698) The fastest way to trigger this fault (nearly 100% reproduction rate) is to try to boot the CentOS ppc64 full ISO image [1] with the following command line in QEMU 2.9: qemu-system-ppc64 --enable-kvm -M pseries -cpu POWER8 -smp 2,cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1 -m 16G -realtime mlock=on -monitor pty disk.qcow2 -cdrom CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64-Everything-1611.iso [1] http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64/CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64-Everything-1611.iso -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.