Some distros switched gcc to '-march=x86-64-v3' by default and while it's hard to find a CPU which doesn't support it today, many KVM selftests fail with ==== Test Assertion Failure ==== lib/x86_64/processor.c:570: Unhandled exception in guest pid=72747 tid=72747 errno=4 - Interrupted system call Unhandled exception '0x6' at guest RIP '0x4104f7' The failure is easy to reproduce elsewhere with $ make clean && CFLAGS='-march=x86-64-v3' make -j && ./x86_64/kvm_pv_test The root cause of the problem seems to be that with '-march=x86-64-v3' GCC uses AVX* instructions (VMOVQ in the example above) and without prior XSETBV() in the guest this results in #UD. It is certainly possible to add it there, e.g. the following saves the day as well: diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/kvm_pv_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/kvm_pv_test.c index 78878b3a2725..704668adb3bd 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/kvm_pv_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/kvm_pv_test.c @@ -82,8 +82,17 @@ static void test_hcall(struct hcall_data *hc) static void guest_main(void) { + uint64_t cr4, xcr0; int i; + cr4 = get_cr4(); + cr4 |= X86_CR4_OSXSAVE; + set_cr4(cr4); + + xcr0 = xgetbv(0); + xcr0 |= XFEATURE_MASK_SSE | XFEATURE_MASK_YMM; + xsetbv(0x0, xcr0); + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(msrs_to_test); i++) { test_msr(&msrs_to_test[i]); } but this needs to be made conditional depending on the compilation target and added to all selftests. Slap a band-aid on the problem by forcing '-march=x86-64-v2' in Makefile. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile index 48d32c5aa3eb..3f1b24ed7245 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile @@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ CFLAGS += -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wuninitialized -O2 -g -std=gnu99 \ -fno-stack-protector -fno-PIE -I$(LINUX_TOOL_INCLUDE) \ -I$(LINUX_TOOL_ARCH_INCLUDE) -I$(LINUX_HDR_PATH) -Iinclude \ -I$(<D) -Iinclude/$(ARCH_DIR) -I ../rseq -I.. $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) \ + -march=x86-64-v2 \ $(KHDR_INCLUDES) ifeq ($(ARCH),s390) CFLAGS += -march=z10 -- 2.46.0