I get a spew of these on boot. The virtual machine is mostly Fedora 14 with a kernel from linux-next as of today. The hardware is RHEL 5.5 with KVM: tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git tag: next-20100412 commit: bbeecf185fe464ccd7ee97ce6d3646ad686995b4 I get one for 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0. Below I only show the example for 1.0. Attached should be the full dmesg and config. Please let me know about any ideas, tests, questions, or things I can do to help debug the spew.... [ 1.681281] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1.682249] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one+0xa9/0xc0() [ 1.683227] Hardware name: KVM [ 1.684169] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/slot' [ 1.685159] Modules linked in: [ 1.686638] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc3-next-20100412+ #65 [ 1.687878] Call Trace: [ 1.688550] [] ? sysfs_add_one+0xa9/0xc0 [ 1.689567] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0 [ 1.690554] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x64/0x70 [ 1.691808] [] ? sysfs_pathname+0x40/0x50 [ 1.692800] [] ? sysfs_pathname+0x40/0x50 [ 1.693971] [] ? sysfs_pathname+0x40/0x50 [ 1.695061] [] ? sysfs_pathname+0x40/0x50 [ 1.696170] [] sysfs_add_one+0xa9/0xc0 [ 1.697152] [] sysfs_do_create_link+0xb1/0x150 [ 1.698309] [] sysfs_create_link+0xe/0x10 [ 1.699301] [] pci_create_sysfs_dev_files+0x39b/0x4b0 [ 1.700630] [] ? pci_get_subsys+0x74/0xa0 [ 1.701621] [] pci_sysfs_init+0x33/0x60 [ 1.702772] [] ? pci_sysfs_init+0x0/0x60 [ 1.703763] [] do_one_initcall+0x31/0x190 [ 1.704907] [] kernel_init+0x1fc/0x2e0 [ 1.705978] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 1.707100] [] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30 [ 1.713450] [] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2e0 [ 1.714440] [] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [ 1.715605] ---[ end trace 9bb6b2f8220af22f ]---