Paul, I know you've worked like crazy cleaning these up, but I've got 2 ?new? ones (actually the only 2 I get now) running linux-next. One from watchdog() and one from nfs delegation. .config and dmesg are attached. Thanks! [ 0.046161] =================================================== [ 0.052062] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 0.053190] --------------------------------------------------- [ 0.054004] include/linux/cgroup.h:533 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 0.059031] [ 0.059032] other info that might help us debug this: [ 0.059033] [ 0.062054] [ 0.062054] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 [ 0.064005] no locks held by watchdog/0/5. [ 0.065004] [ 0.065005] stack backtrace: [ 0.067032] Pid: 5, comm: watchdog/0 Not tainted 2.6.34-rc6-kernel1-next-20100503+ #132 [ 0.069070] lockdep: fixing up alternatives. [ 0.070238] Booting Node 0, Processors #1 [ 0.001999] mce: CPU supports 0 MCE banks [ 0.001999] kvm-clock: cpu 1, msr 0:51d4881, secondary cpu clock [ 0.103131] Call Trace: [ 0.103142] [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xa2/0xb0 [ 0.103149] [] ? watchdog+0x0/0xa0 [ 0.103152] [] __sched_setscheduler+0x393/0x420 [ 0.103154] [] ? watchdog+0x0/0xa0 [ 0.103156] [] sched_setscheduler+0xe/0x10 [ 0.103158] [] watchdog+0x2a/0xa0 [ 0.103160] [] ? watchdog+0x0/0xa0 [ 0.103162] [] kthread+0xac/0xc0 [ 0.103164] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xc0/0x260 [ 0.103170] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 0.103172] [] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30 [ 0.103174] [] ? kthread+0x0/0xc0 [ 0.103176] [] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [ 13.639379] =================================================== [ 13.639381] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 13.639382] --------------------------------------------------- [ 13.639383] fs/nfs/delegation.c:333 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 13.639385] [ 13.639385] other info that might help us debug this: [ 13.639389] [ 13.639390] [ 13.639391] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 [ 13.639393] 2 locks held by mount.nfs/2099: [ 13.639394] #0: (&type->s_umount_key#35){+.+...}, at: [] deactivate_super+0x7d/0xa0 [ 13.639422] #1: (iprune_sem){+.+...}, at: [] invalidate_inodes+0x36/0x140 [ 13.639435] [ 13.639435] stack backtrace: [ 13.639439] Pid: 2099, comm: mount.nfs Tainted: G W 2.6.34-rc6-kernel1-next-20100503+ #132 [ 13.639442] Call Trace: [ 13.639456] [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xa2/0xb0 [ 13.639489] [] nfs_inode_return_delegation_noreclaim+0xc3/0xd0 [nfs] [ 13.639494] [] nfs4_clear_inode+0x11/0x20 [nfs] [ 13.639497] [] clear_inode+0x88/0x120 [ 13.639499] [] dispose_list+0x2a/0x100 [ 13.639501] [] invalidate_inodes+0xd0/0x140 [ 13.639503] [] generic_shutdown_super+0x51/0xe0 [ 13.639505] [] kill_anon_super+0x11/0x60 [ 13.639511] [] nfs4_kill_super+0x34/0x90 [nfs] [ 13.639513] [] deactivate_super+0x85/0xa0 [ 13.639516] [] mntput_no_expire+0x6b/0xb0 [ 13.639519] [] release_mounts+0xb2/0xd0 [ 13.639521] [] put_mnt_ns+0x6f/0x90 [ 13.639526] [] nfs_follow_remote_path+0x17e/0x2a0 [nfs] [ 13.639531] [] nfs4_try_mount+0x77/0xd0 [nfs] [ 13.639537] [] nfs_get_sb+0x823/0xbb0 [nfs] [ 13.639541] [] ? pcpu_alloc+0x4d3/0x9a0 [ 13.639544] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [ 13.639546] [] ? __alloc_percpu+0xb/0x10 [ 13.639548] [] vfs_kern_mount+0x89/0x1d0 [ 13.639550] [] do_kern_mount+0x4e/0x110 [ 13.639553] [] do_mount+0x52f/0x7e0 [ 13.639555] [] ? copy_mount_options+0x10a/0x180 [ 13.639557] [] sys_mount+0x8a/0xd0 [ 13.639572] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b