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Hang on Alder Lake with multiple cores

Host environment

  • Operating system: Fedora 35
  • OS/kernel version: 5.16.0-0.rc5.35.fc36.x86_64 vanilla
  • Architecture: x86
  • QEMU flavor: qemu-system-x86_64
  • QEMU version: 6.1.0
  • QEMU command line:
    ./qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 4096 -enable-kvm -cdrom fedora35live.iso -smp 8,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=4,threads=2

Emulated/Virtualized environment

  • Operating system: Windows 11, Fedora 35
  • OS/kernel version: 5.15.6-200.fc35.x86_64
  • Architecture: x86

Description of problem

The guest silently hangs after a few seconds or minutes. No output in log, no errors in guest.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start guest, do anything or nothing for a few minutes

Additional information

More cores seem to make it less stable. With a single core, I haven't had a problem but at 8 cores it usually doesn't make it much past login on Windows or Linux.

The guests are stable with 8 cores if I pin the vcpus to P cores.

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