Greetings, Here is an one shot oops that I've not managed to reproduce after one night's tests.. [ 1238.277618] EXT4-fs (vdc): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities [ 1541.816024] hrtimer: interrupt took 21027368 ns [ 2343.000017] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, fallocate/25287 [ 2343.000017] lock: 0xffff88001f5d3b00, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: fallocate/25287, .owner_cpu: -1 [ 2343.000017] Pid: 25287, comm: fallocate Not tainted 3.6.0-rc4+ #4189 [ 2343.000017] Call Trace: [ 2343.000017] [] spin_dump+0x8c/0x91 [ 2343.000017] [] spin_bug+0x26/0x28 [ 2343.000017] [] do_raw_spin_lock+0x41/0xf3 [ 2343.000017] [] _raw_spin_lock+0x56/0x69 [ 2343.000017] [] ? sched_rt_period_timer+0x85/0x23e [ 2343.000017] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x29/0x2e [ 2343.000017] [] sched_rt_period_timer+0x85/0x23e [ 2343.000017] [] ? post_schedule_rt+0x10/0x10 [ 2343.000017] [] __run_hrtimer+0xbe/0x19e [ 2343.000017] [] hrtimer_interrupt+0xd9/0x1c0 [ 2343.000017] [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x86/0x99 [ 2343.000017] [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 [ 2343.000017] [] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13 [ 2343.000017] [] ? local_clock+0x1d/0x5a [ 2343.000017] [] ? csd_lock_wait.isra.3+0xd/0x14 [ 2343.000017] [] ? native_send_call_func_single_ipi+0x36/0x38 [ 2343.000017] [] generic_exec_single+0x84/0x93 [ 2343.000017] [] ? do_flush_tlb_all+0x41/0x41 [ 2343.000017] [] smp_call_function_single+0x172/0x197 [ 2343.000017] [] ? do_flush_tlb_all+0x41/0x41 [ 2343.000017] [] smp_call_function_many+0x121/0x238 [ 2343.000017] [] ? do_flush_tlb_all+0x41/0x41 [ 2343.000017] [] native_flush_tlb_others+0x2e/0x30 [ 2343.000017] [] flush_tlb_mm_range+0x1da/0x1e9 [ 2343.000017] [] tlb_flush_mmu+0x42/0x7f [ 2343.000017] [] tlb_finish_mmu+0x1c/0x41 [ 2343.000017] [] exit_mmap+0xc9/0x133 [ 2343.000017] [] mmput+0x50/0xb0 [ 2343.000017] [] exit_mm+0x108/0x115 [ 2343.000017] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2e/0x39 [ 2343.000017] [] do_exit+0x22c/0x82e [ 2343.000017] [] ? retint_swapgs+0x13/0x1b [ 2343.000017] [] do_group_exit+0x7b/0xba [ 2343.000017] [] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x17 [ 2343.000017] [] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 Thanks, Fengguang