I get about 9 of these near the start of the system while userspace is first coming up. The virtual machine in question 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'm not sure what else to collect, give, test, try, show, debug or what have you so let me know. Attached is my full dmesg and config. [ 14.203970] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: avahi-daemon/2093 [ 14.204025] caller is netif_rx+0xfa/0x110 [ 14.204032] Pid: 2093, comm: avahi-daemon Tainted: G W 2.6.34-rc3-next-20100412+ #65 [ 14.204035] Call Trace: [ 14.204064] [] debug_smp_processor_id+0x105/0x110 [ 14.204070] [] netif_rx+0xfa/0x110 [ 14.204090] [] ip_dev_loopback_xmit+0x71/0xa0 [ 14.204095] [] ip_mc_output+0x192/0x2c0 [ 14.204099] [] ip_local_out+0x20/0x30 [ 14.204105] [] ip_push_pending_frames+0x28d/0x3d0 [ 14.204119] [] udp_push_pending_frames+0x14c/0x400 [ 14.204125] [] udp_sendmsg+0x39c/0x790 [ 14.204137] [] inet_sendmsg+0x45/0x80 [ 14.204149] [] sock_sendmsg+0xf1/0x110 [ 14.204177] [] ? might_fault+0xb9/0xd0 [ 14.204184] [] ? might_fault+0x6e/0xd0 [ 14.204189] [] sys_sendmsg+0x20c/0x380 [ 14.204205] [] ? do_sync_write+0xd1/0x110 [ 14.204211] [] ? might_fault+0x6e/0xd0 [ 14.204233] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b