(In reply to Benjamin Zeller from comment #11) > (In reply to Guillaume GARDET from comment #10) > > (In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #9) > > > The problem doesn't occur if I set any specific CPU other than "max". > > > > What host machine is it? > > For me it happens on a recently updated Tumbleweed install: > > Linux linux-2ggq 6.1.1-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Dec 22 15:37:40 UTC 2022 (e71748d) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux So, fully emulated (non-KVM) machine. So, it runs PAC+BTI instructions (-mbranch-protection=standard). Could you try to disable Pointer Auth and/or BTI with arm64.nopauth and arm64.nobti to check if it improves things?