Hi Maneesh,

I've had a pretty repeatible case of the BUG in list.h from attempting
backups via rsync. This has persisted thru 2.6.1-mm3. I reverted the
race fix patch at:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm3/broken-out/sysfs_remove_dir-vs-dcache_readdir-race-fix.patch

Which allows my rsync to finish properly.

Current .config attached. Previously tested without preempt and embedded
(-Os) active. My rsync would trip it each time, sometimes while building
the list of files, other times it would proceed further, but ultimately
bug.

Machine is:

2xAMD 2400 MP's
1 GB Ram
Primary filesystems on md software raid0 over two drives running ext3.
Backup filesystem on device mapper raid0 on Promise FastTrak 20276
running ext3.

-Walt