FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 0367f205a3b7c0efe774634eef1f4697c79a4132 ("KVM: vmx: add support for emulating UMIP") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master in testcase: kvm-unit-tests-qemu with following parameters: on test machine: 88 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz with 128G memory caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): 2017-12-25 18:11:16 ./run_tests.sh ... FAIL vmx_instruction_intercept (44 tests, 7 unexpected failures) ... To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp install job.yaml # job file is attached in this email bin/lkp run job.yaml Thanks, Xiaolong