Hello Paul, I see something strange with 3.5.0-rc1 kernel. During boot automount process hangs for a couple of minutes and when boot finally completes I find this in dmesg: [ 240.676287] INFO: task automount:3000 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 240.676393] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 240.676495] automount D ffff88027fc12040 0 3000 2994 0x00000000 [ 240.676581] ffff880273e7dcb8 0000000000000046 ffff880273e7dc70 ffff880273e7dfd8 [ 240.676681] 0000000000004000 0000000000012040 ffffffff814e3410 ffff8802732a4100 [ 240.676781] ffff880272470a20 ffff8802732f5001 0000000000000009 ffff880273e7de18 [ 240.676880] Call Trace: [ 240.676962] [] ? security_inode_permission+0x1e/0x20 [ 240.677072] [] ? fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode+0x93/0xd4 [ 240.677169] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x38/0x4b [ 240.677260] [] schedule+0x64/0x66 [ 240.677348] [] schedule_timeout+0x2b/0x28b [ 240.677435] [] ? wait_for_common+0xc0/0x146 [ 240.677523] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x38/0x4b [ 240.677610] [] wait_for_common+0xc8/0x146 [ 240.677699] [] ? synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop+0x10/0x10 [ 240.677804] [] ? try_to_wake_up+0x24f/0x24f [ 240.677892] [] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x1f [ 240.677979] [] _rcu_barrier+0x204/0x21f [ 240.678085] [] ? kfree_call_rcu+0x1c/0x1c [ 240.678178] [] ? rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs+0x191/0x191 [ 240.678272] [] rcu_barrier+0x1c/0x1e [ 240.678359] [] deactivate_locked_super+0x37/0x57 [ 240.678447] [] deactivate_super+0x3f/0x43 [ 240.678535] [] mntput_no_expire+0x132/0x13a [ 240.678622] [] sys_umount+0x308/0x33a [ 240.678708] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b When I am actually trying to access automounted NFS directory nfs mount also hangs in D state in rcu_barrier (I see this behaviour in 3.4 and it looks like 3.3 kernel too). My kernel config is attached. -- Gleb.