(Appears to have been present in -rc2-mmotm1117 as well, and maybe earlier. I suspect mcelog wasn't getting run at boot due to my fighting with systemd, so I didn't see it). [ 146.195836] =================================================== [ 146.195839] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 146.195841] --------------------------------------------------- [ 146.195844] arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:1628 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 146.195847] [ 146.195847] other info that might help us debug this: [ 146.195848] [ 146.195850] [ 146.195850] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 [ 146.195853] no locks held by mcelog/3806. [ 146.195855] [ 146.195855] stack backtrace: [ 146.195858] Pid: 3806, comm: mcelog Tainted: G W 2.6.37-rc3-mmotm1123 #4 [ 146.195860] Call Trace: [ 146.195869] [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9d/0xa5 [ 146.195875] [] mce_poll+0x66/0x74 [ 146.195880] [] do_sys_poll+0x23b/0x3a5 [ 146.195885] [] ? __pollwait+0x0/0xc7 [ 146.195889] [] ? pollwake+0x0/0x4f [ 146.195893] [] ? pollwake+0x0/0x4f [ 146.195898] [] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x28f/0x2ab [ 146.195903] [] ? __do_fault+0x256/0x3e5 [ 146.195908] [] ? look_up_lock_class+0x5f/0xc4 [ 146.195912] [] ? __do_fault+0x256/0x3e5 [ 146.195916] [] ? register_lock_class+0x1e/0x2d3 [ 146.195921] [] ? trace_preempt_on+0x15/0x28 [ 146.195925] [] ? __do_fault+0x34c/0x3e5 [ 146.195931] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x30/0x69 [ 146.195935] [] ? mark_lock+0x2d/0x1d8 [ 146.195940] [] ? unlock_page+0x25/0x2a [ 146.195944] [] ? __lock_acquire+0x54e/0xd4e [ 146.195948] [] ? handle_mm_fault+0x193/0x7c3 [ 146.195953] [] ? sigprocmask+0x2f/0xc5 [ 146.195957] [] ? sigprocmask+0x2f/0xc5 [ 146.195962] [] ? might_fault+0x4e/0x9e [ 146.195966] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x70 [ 146.195970] [] ? trace_preempt_on+0x15/0x28 [ 146.195974] [] ? sigprocmask+0xba/0xc5 [ 146.195978] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x36/0x70 [ 146.195983] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x35/0x49 [ 146.195987] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x62/0x70 [ 146.195992] [] sys_ppoll+0xd3/0x13c [ 146.195996] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x117/0x13b [ 146.196087] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 146.196094] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b