Peter, I got the warning [ 10.412023] [ 10.412611] ====================================================== [ 10.413014] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [ 10.413014] 3.6.0-rc4-00098-g7eaffe9 #402 Not tainted [ 10.413014] ------------------------------------------------------- [ 10.413014] init/1 is trying to acquire lock: [ 10.413014] (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [] task_work_add+0x28/0x82 [ 10.413014] [ 10.413014] but task is already holding lock: [ 10.413014] (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}, at: [] scheduler_tick+0x3f/0xec [ 10.413014] [ 10.413014] which lock already depends on the new lock. [ 10.413014] [ 10.413014] since commit: tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched/numa commit 4ae834f767c59b42cdf2a5077a18388525ba78b2 Author: Peter Zijlstra AuthorDate: Mon Jul 16 11:22:09 2012 +0200 Commit: Ingo Molnar CommitDate: Thu Sep 27 17:04:47 2012 +0200 sched/numa: Implement NUMA home-node selection code Thanks, Fengguang