Hello, I've been seeing the following splat ever since 4.8-rc1: [ 2.795057] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/buffer_head.h:358 [ 2.796742] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 993, name: mount [ 2.797966] CPU: 0 PID: 993 Comm: mount Not tainted 4.9.0-rc1-clouder1 #62 [ 2.798952] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.1-0-g4adadbd-20150316_085822-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014 [ 2.798952] ffff880006423548 ffffffff81318c89 ffffffff819ecdd0 0000000000000166 [ 2.798952] ffff880006423558 ffffffff810810b0 ffff880006423580 ffffffff81081153 [ 2.798952] ffff880006e5a1a0 ffff88000690e400 0000000000000000 ffff8800064235c0 [ 2.798952] Call Trace: [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81318c89>] dump_stack+0x67/0x9e [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff810810b0>] ___might_sleep+0xf0/0x140 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81081153>] __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8126c1dc>] ext4_commit_super+0x19c/0x290 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8126e61a>] __ext4_grp_locked_error+0x14a/0x230 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81081153>] ? __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff812822be>] ext4_mb_generate_buddy+0x1de/0x320 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff812828ca>] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x3aa/0x740 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81282e15>] ext4_mb_init_group+0x1b5/0x240 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8128300f>] ext4_mb_good_group+0x16f/0x190 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81285c68>] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x288/0x450 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff812877d8>] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x508/0xb40 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81277fe1>] ? ext4_find_extent+0x1f1/0x2f0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81277fe1>] ? ext4_find_extent+0x1f1/0x2f0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8127c294>] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x964/0x1ca0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8114bb56>] ? release_pages+0x2a6/0x330 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8113af4e>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x11e/0x280 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8124d50e>] ext4_map_blocks+0x10e/0x640 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81250d86>] ? ext4_writepages+0x436/0xd90 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8125101a>] ext4_writepages+0x6ca/0xd90 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81081153>] ? __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81259ccc>] ? ext4_find_entry+0x24c/0x6a0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff81149f1e>] do_writepages+0x1e/0x30 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8113c31a>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xaa/0xf0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8113c40c>] filemap_flush+0x1c/0x20 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8124e68c>] ext4_alloc_da_blocks+0x2c/0x80 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8125d68d>] ext4_rename+0x62d/0x8a0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff811c2ffd>] ? terminate_walk+0x6d/0xe0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8125d91d>] ext4_rename2+0x1d/0x30 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff811c5d3e>] vfs_rename+0x5de/0x840 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff811cae68>] SyS_rename+0x398/0x3b0 [ 2.798952] [<ffffffff8166bb6e>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1c/0xac This complains due to the lock_buffer(sbh); being called in ext4_commit_super. This happens while booting on a KVM instance. -- 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