For some reasons, running a simple qemu-kvm command with KCSAN will reset AMD hosts. It turns out svm_vcpu_run() could not be instrumented. Disable it for now. # /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G -hda ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg.qcow2 === console output === Kernel 5.6.0-next-20200408+ on an x86_64 hp-dl385g10-05 login: <...host reset...> HPE ProLiant System BIOS A40 v1.20 (03/09/2018) (C) Copyright 1982-2018 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP Early system initialization, please wait... Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c index 2be5bbae3a40..1fdb300e9337 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c @@ -3278,7 +3278,7 @@ static void svm_cancel_injection(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) bool __svm_vcpu_run(unsigned long vmcb_pa, unsigned long *regs); -static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +static __no_kcsan void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu); -- 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2)