The unimplemented movdqa (66 0f 7f 07) instruction triggers a bug in the x86 emulator. The emulator should fail since the instruction is unimplemented. However the emulator thinks it is succeeding but we keep re-executing the same instruction over and over. top shows 100% CPU utilization and perf top shows we're constantly running through the x86 emulator in kvm.ko. The problem is that ctxt->d != 0 even though the instruction is unimplemented (N): while (ctxt->d & GroupMask) { switch (ctxt->d & GroupMask) { ... <-- opcode zeroed if instruction is unimplemented } ctxt->d &= ~(u64)GroupMask; <-- only clears GroupMask ctxt->d |= opcode.flags; <-- opcode.flags == 0, ctxt->d != 0 } ... /* Unrecognised? */ if (ctxt->d == 0 || (ctxt->d & Undefined)) <-- always false return EMULATION_FAILED; Stefan -- 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