Macbook Air M1 - kernel panic

With a slightly higher CPU load (during the game), there are repeated restarts, pink stripes appear on the black screen. I cannot interpret the reports (they are identical, see example below). The problem does not occur with the same load on Macbook Air 2015 (Football Manager 2020 game running via Epic Launcher and Chrome). Big Sur 11.1.



MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Dec 22, 2020 1:17 PM

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Posted on Apr 6, 2021 8:50 AM

Hi all, lowering memory usage (from around 7GB closer to 6GB, of 8GB total) by closing safari tabs and some (e.g memory) resource hogging app's , e.g Spotify, resolves this issue for me. Apple needs a more elegant way of doing this, e.g low memory warning, unless this is actually a bug in macOS or M1 hardware.


BTW, I can now use an extra monitor memory again without KP's. Although not using an external monitor requires less Vram used (from main Ram) which may resolve the issue instead (but didn't for me, without closing app's).

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Mar 5, 2021 9:20 AM in response to Forender

I'm getting a similar error, but no FP or videos games, only Word, Safari, Acrobat reader, Apple Music, a BenQ screen and headphones. Any ideas why? I also have a Macbook air M1...


panic(cpu 2 caller 0xfffffe0016db84c4): "dart-disp0 (0xfffffe2336958000): SMMU(SMMU) error: SID 0 PTE invalid exception on read with DVA 0x3680000 (TTBR 0 SEG 0x1 PTE 0x5a0) ERROR_STATUS 0x80000004 TIME 0x3292fa4472e3 TTE 0 AXI_ID 0)"

Debugger message: panic

Memory ID: 0xff

OS release type: User



Any help would be most appreciated! Thank you!

Mar 23, 2021 6:29 PM in response to blatny

I have almost the exact same report, and same reported symptoms on a MacBook Pro M1 8gb RAM laptop. Second time it has happened. Wasn't playing a game of any sort, and don't have any installed on the laptop. Was watching a YouTube video in Safari (only browser on the laptop). Screen goes black with a couple of short pink stripe flashes, then restarts. Running Big Sur 11.2.3 (latest update version).


Any further information about this?

May 2, 2021 8:05 PM in response to blatny

Same issue here on a Macbook pro M1. I had this issue for the last 6 months and got my computer replaced by a new one (not refurbished) and the issue persists.


I only run Google Chrome and Office 365 on my computer and an LG monitor on Apple HDMI/USB-C adapter. I doubt this is an RAM related issue as it happened with only a few apps idling in the background.


I'm seriously considering returning my computer and going back to my old Macbook pro.



May 18, 2021 1:07 AM in response to Fexiven

Hi all, agree with foxiven, I replaced my screen and thought to have fixed the issue but didn’t.


Apple must take responsibility for these faulty item and explore further. When I contacted Apple support or attended the Genius Bar I was persuaded to think it was an external software issue but (after replacing the computer) the new laptop had another kernel panic attack...

Very disappointing.

May 27, 2021 6:19 PM in response to geewizz84

I have there same problem and same panic report text using an old Thunderbolt display with Apple TB --> C connector. Crashes twice per day. I did the recent OS update and the next morning my 6 month old Mac Book Air was in very bad shape. Many apps were freezing up and Finder was very slow. Two minutes to paste an image into a Word doc. I took it back and got a new one. It took 36 hours before this one crashed. I am avoiding the recent update for this computer in case someone finds that it exacerbates the M1 crash issue.

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