On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:09:45 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said: > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-04-05-16-09 has been uploaded to > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ Hit another one. I seem to be on a roll... Seen in dmesg, happened near end of the initrd.. [ 26.756864] [ 26.756866] =================================================== [ 26.756869] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 26.756871] --------------------------------------------------- [ 26.756874] fs/proc/array.c:241 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 26.756876] [ 26.756877] other info that might help us debug this: [ 26.756877] [ 26.756879] [ 26.756880] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 26.756883] 2 locks held by pidof/2197: [ 26.756884] #0: (&p->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [] seq_read+0x3a/0x42d [ 26.756894] #1: (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){......}, at: [] lock_task_sighand+0x79/0xcf [ 26.756903] [ 26.756903] stack backtrace: [ 26.756906] Pid: 2197, comm: pidof Not tainted 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm0405 #3 [ 26.756909] Call Trace: [ 26.756914] [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2 [ 26.756919] [] collect_sigign_sigcatch+0x37/0xa0 [ 26.756923] [] do_task_stat+0x275/0x837 [ 26.756927] [] ? mark_held_locks+0x52/0x70 [ 26.756931] [] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x390/0x5ab [ 26.756935] [] ? register_lock_class+0x1e/0x325 [ 26.756938] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [ 26.756942] [] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x414/0x5ab [ 26.756946] [] ? mark_lock+0x2d/0x22c [ 26.756949] [] ? mark_lock+0x2d/0x22c [ 26.756953] [] ? __lock_acquire+0x391/0xcfc [ 26.756956] [] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x796/0x823 [ 26.756961] [] ? ____cache_alloc+0x10a/0x5cb [ 26.756964] [] ? ____cache_alloc+0x10a/0x5cb [ 26.756969] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x35/0x49 [ 26.756973] [] proc_tgid_stat+0xf/0x11 [ 26.756977] [] proc_single_show+0x57/0x74 [ 26.756980] [] ? seq_read+0xb1/0x42d [ 26.756983] [] seq_read+0x1d3/0x42d [ 26.756988] [] vfs_read+0xe0/0x140 [ 26.756991] [] sys_read+0x45/0x69 [ 26.756996] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 26.788544] dracut: Switching root