A similar thing happens on a different machine (running on Linode, kernel-default-5.3.18-lp152.92.2.x86_64): dmesg -T: [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] x86: Booting SMP configuration: [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] .... node #0, CPUs: #1 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] kvm-clock: cpu 1, msr 255601041, secondary cpu clock [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] setup async PF for cpu 1 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] kvm-stealtime: cpu 1, msr 277aaf040 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] #2 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] kvm-clock: cpu 2, msr 255601081, secondary cpu clock [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] setup async PF for cpu 2 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] kvm-stealtime: cpu 2, msr 277b2f040 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] #3 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] kvm-clock: cpu 3, msr 2556010c1, secondary cpu clock [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] setup async PF for cpu 3 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] kvm-stealtime: cpu 3, msr 277baf040 [Sun Oct 3 15:02:10 2021] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs /var/log/warn: Oct 3 15:02:11 ops kernel: #2 Oct 3 15:02:11 ops kernel: #3