Re: 4.15-rc6+ hang

[Christian Kujau]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, Tom Hromatka wrote:
> > > [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > [    0.000000] XSAVE consistency problem, dumping leaves
> > I think this is a vbox issue, with virtualbox not exposing all the
> > xsave state, so that when the kernel adds up the xsave areas, the end
> > result doesn't match what the total size is reported to be.
> 
> It seems probable that this is a VirtualBox issue. I was
> able to boot my exact 4.15-rc6+ kernel in qemu-kvm v1.5.3
> just fine.

This was discussed on vbox-dev back in May 2017 (see the whole thread for 
more details):

 https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2017-May/014466.html

Does that help?

Christian.
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