Re: 4.12 REGRESSION, 4.12 does not boot as VirtualBox guest

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry for escalating this right up to you, but this issue
> does not seem to be getting any attention and I'm not sure
> which subsys maintainer to poke about this.

Looks like x86. Added people.

> The problem is that the 4.12-rc# kernels fail to boot on
> VirtualBox guests hosted on any machine with a Sky Lake
> (and probably also a Kaby Lake) CPU, for details see:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195961

It would probably help enormously if somebody who saw this did a
bisection. If nothing else, we might have the option to just revert
until the issue is figured out.

                Linus