I saw this in kernel log messages while testing 2.6.37-rc2. I think it appeared while mounting an external hard-disk. I can't seem to reproduce it. Please let me know if you need more info. [47064.272151] =================================================== [47064.273474] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [47064.273956] --------------------------------------------------- [47064.274431] include/linux/radix-tree.h:145 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [47064.274905] [47064.274906] other info that might help us debug this: [47064.274907] [47064.276303] [47064.276303] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [47064.277202] 2 locks held by mount/21199: [47064.277635] #0: (&type->s_umount_key#20/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<c05007f0>] sget+0x21f/0x35d [47064.278078] #1: (&(&inode->i_data.tree_lock)->rlock){..-.-.}, at: [<c04f5e67>] migrate_page_move_mapping+0x3a/0x120 [47064.278529] [47064.278529] stack backtrace: [47064.279409] Pid: 21199, comm: mount Not tainted 2.6.37-rc2-ab2-589136bfa784a4558b397f017ca2f06f0ca9080e+ #1 [47064.279864] Call Trace: [47064.280313] [<c0822e61>] ? printk+0x2d/0x34 [47064.280765] [<c04709c8>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x97/0x9f [47064.281220] [<c04f5e28>] radix_tree_deref_slot+0x4a/0x4f [47064.281680] [<c04f5ea7>] migrate_page_move_mapping+0x7a/0x120 [47064.282129] [<c04f6323>] migrate_page+0x1f/0x35 [47064.282573] [<c04f6464>] move_to_new_page+0x12b/0x164 [47064.283017] [<c04f6773>] migrate_pages+0x1e1/0x2ee [47064.283463] [<c04eed89>] ? compaction_alloc+0x0/0x1ef [47064.283918] [<c04eebdc>] compact_zone+0x24f/0x3fc [47064.284363] [<c04ef0f4>] try_to_compact_pages+0x17c/0x1e6 [47064.284820] [<c04cac33>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x397/0x6b7 [47064.285276] [<c04caf75>] __get_free_pages+0x22/0x33 [47064.285729] [<c04f4304>] __kmalloc+0x2f/0x112 [47064.286193] [<c0435adc>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x28 [47064.286655] [<c0578ca9>] kzalloc.clone.58+0x12/0x14 [47064.287118] [<c057c7f1>] ext4_fill_super+0x1090/0x2521 [47064.287573] [<c040ea02>] ? native_sched_clock+0x14/0x52 [47064.288029] [<c054774a>] ? disk_name+0x86/0x90 [47064.288477] [<c0523bfa>] ? set_blocksize+0x33/0x78 [47064.288930] [<c0500aed>] mount_bdev+0x123/0x16d [47064.289385] [<c057b761>] ? ext4_fill_super+0x0/0x2521 [47064.289842] [<c05776fd>] ? ext4_mount+0x0/0x24 [47064.290300] [<c057771c>] ext4_mount+0x1f/0x24 [47064.290760] [<c057b761>] ? ext4_fill_super+0x0/0x2521 [47064.291222] [<c05003e1>] vfs_kern_mount+0xa1/0x1ad [47064.291687] [<c0511c36>] ? get_fs_type+0x38/0x91 [47064.292149] [<c0500546>] do_kern_mount+0x3d/0xc8 [47064.292615] [<c05142b2>] do_mount+0x614/0x640 [47064.293056] [<c04d69f0>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f [47064.293489] [<c05144a1>] sys_mount+0x6d/0x99 [47064.293925] [<c040971f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38 [47064.368116] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) -Arun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html