FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 7b5b51e7b3a988741f7f34d5148f1f4fea86434a ("[PATCH v6 11/11] arm64: annotate user pointers casts detected by sparse") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Andrey-Konovalov/arm64-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-the-kernel/20180831-042151 in testcase: kvm-unit-tests with following parameters: on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu IvyBridge -smp 4 -m 2G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): ignored_by_lkp: pku ignored_by_lkp: taskswitch ignored_by_lkp: vmware_backdoors 2018-09-13 17:39:56 ./run_tests.sh FAIL apic-split (timeout; duration=90s) SKIP ioapic-split (qemu: could not load kernel '_NO_FILE_4Uhere_': No such file or directory) FAIL apic (timeout; duration=30) PASS ioapic (19 tests) PASS smptest (1 tests) SKIP smptest3 (Try '�=p� --help' for more information.) SKIP vmexit_cpuid (You can set a custom location by using the QEMU= environment variable.) FAIL vmexit_vmcall FAIL vmexit_mov_from_cr8 FAIL vmexit_mov_to_cr8 PASS vmexit_inl_pmtimer SKIP vmexit_ipi (: '': No such file or directory) SKIP vmexit_ipi_halt (: '': No such file or directory) SKIP vmexit_ple_round_robin (You can set a custom location by using the QEMU= environment variable.) FAIL vmexit_tscdeadline (terminated on SIGPIPE) SKIP vmexit_tscdeadline_immed (No Qemu test device support found) SKIP access (qemu-system-x86_64: CPU model 'host' requires KVM) SKIP smap (You can set a custom location by using the QEMU= environment variable.) FAIL emulator SKIP eventinj (You can set a custom location by using the QEMU= environment variable.) FAIL hypercall (timeout; duration=90s) PASS idt_test SKIP memory (�: : No such file or directory) FAIL msr SKIP pmu (qemu-system-x86_64: CPU model 'host' requires KVM) PASS port80 FAIL realmode SKIP s3 (Try '� --help' for more information.) FAIL sieve FAIL syscall wrong CS (0x08)!) FAIL: syscall TF handling) (2 tests, 1 unexpected failures) SKIP tsc (You can set a custom location by using the QEMU= environment variable.) SKIP tsc_adjust (qemu-system-x86_64: CPU model 'host' requires KVM) SKIP xsave (qemu-system-x86_64: CPU model 'host' requires KVM) FAIL rmap_chain FAIL svm (10 tests, 4 unexpected failures) To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Rong, Chen