Hi Paolo, We noticed the below kernel BUG on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master commit 93c4adc7afedf9b0ec190066d45b6d67db5270da Author: Paolo Bonzini AuthorDate: Wed Mar 5 23:19:52 2014 +0100 Commit: Paolo Bonzini CommitDate: Mon Mar 17 12:21:39 2014 +0100 KVM: x86: handle missing MPX in nested virtualization [ 15.785160] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002b0 [ 15.794972] IP: [] kvm_arch_init+0x110/0x22f [ 15.802077] PGD 0 [ 15.804890] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 15.809153] Modules linked in: [ 15.813132] CPU: 12 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc7-03441-gad1b51f #1 [ 15.822566] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.R2.28.D690.1306271008 06/27/2013 [ 15.834635] task: ffff880813da8000 ti: ffff880813db0000 task.ti: ffff880813db0000 [ 15.843883] RIP: 0010:[] [] kvm_arch_init+0x110/0x22f [ 15.854097] RSP: 0000:ffff880813db1df0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 15.860514] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 15.868973] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880813db1dfc RDI: 0000000000000d90 [ 15.877436] RBP: ffff880813db1e28 R08: 0000000000015f40 R09: ffff88081f003e00 [ 15.885895] R10: ffffffff811bd5ec R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000017 [ 15.894353] R13: 0000000000000018 R14: ffff880813db1dfc R15: ffffffff82218f20 [ 15.902813] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88101ee40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 15.922590] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 15.929492] CR2: 00000000000002b0 CR3: 000000000220f000 CR4: 00000000001407e0 [ 15.937957] Stack: [ 15.940680] 0000000013db1e10 00000000811f0f59 0000000000000006 ffffffff8236743a [ 15.950159] 0000000000000040 0000000000003f40 0000000000000000 ffff880813db1e68 [ 15.959665] ffffffff81003d72 ffffffff8236743a 0000000000000006 ffffffff8236743a [ 15.969172] Call Trace: [ 15.972399] [] ? vmx_check_processor_compat+0x61/0x61 [ 15.980376] [] kvm_init+0x24/0x27b [ 15.986504] [] ? vmx_check_processor_compat+0x61/0x61 [ 15.994478] [] ? vmx_check_processor_compat+0x61/0x61 [ 16.002452] [] vmx_init+0x2ef/0x579 [ 16.008675] [] ? vmx_check_processor_compat+0x61/0x61 [ 16.016648] [] do_one_initcall+0xd1/0x175 [ 16.023462] [] ? parse_args+0x20a/0x3bf [ 16.030083] [] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a6/0x22b [ 16.037477] [] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88 [ 16.044287] [] ? rest_init+0x89/0x89 [ 16.050612] [] kernel_init+0xe/0xdf [ 16.056839] [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 16.063355] [] ? rest_init+0x89/0x89 [ 16.069676] Code: 3c 9d 10 6a 21 82 4c 89 f6 e8 89 ef 05 00 66 90 8b 45 d4 85 c0 78 da 81 3c 9d 10 6a 21 82 90 0d 00 00 75 b3 48 8b 05 87 91 4a 01 90 b0 02 00 00 84 c0 75 a2 48 83 c3 01 48 83 fb 0d 75 bc 45 [ 16.097850] RIP [] kvm_arch_init+0x110/0x22f [ 16.105043] RSP [ 16.109417] CR2: 00000000000002b0 [ 16.113611] ---[ end trace 740886b77a583740 ]--- [ 16.119251] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Full dmesg & Kconifg are attached, and more details can be provided on your request. BTW, same issue has been reported by Fengguang last month. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/26/200 Thanks, Jet