Description of problem: Bring up a VM I start seeing these messages from all 4 cpus all Trace: Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge SC1430/0HD812, BIOS 1.3.0 07/09/2007 CPU: 2 PID: 1914 Comm: CPU 1/KVM Not tainted 4.16.7-300.fc28.x86_64 #1 vmwrite error: reg 401e value 2020 (err 12) ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2 ? do_syscall_64+0x74/0x180 ? SyS_ioctl+0x74/0x80 ? do_vfs_ioctl+0xa4/0x610 ? wake_up_q+0x70/0x70 ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2b8/0x5e0 [kvm] ? _copy_to_user+0x26/0x30 ? wake_up_q+0x70/0x70 ? pollwake+0x74/0x90 ? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x504/0x1720 [kvm] ? __irqentry_text_start+0x8/0x8 ? vmx_vcpu_run+0x7b7/0x990 [kvm_intel] ? vmx_vcpu_run+0x3e5/0x990 [kvm_intel] ? vmx_handle_exit+0xab/0xe10 [kvm_intel] handle_cr+0x5aa/0x630 [kvm_intel] kvm_set_cr4+0x18b/0x2e0 [kvm] ? vmx_vcpu_run+0x3d9/0x990 [kvm_intel] vmx_set_cr4+0x1dc/0x200 [kvm_intel] dump_stack+0x5c/0x85 As soon as I kill the VM the messages stop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.16.7-300.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.virsh start vm 2. 3.
Hi Steve, Thanks for the report. Can you test the 4.16.8 kernel[0] and leave karma? It should have the fix for this. If not, please re-open this bug. [0] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ac3b4c7605 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1566258 ***