Just got this shortly after booting a fresh Linus kernel on a 16 thread system. I had some patches on top, but they were completely unrelated. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /home/ak/lsrc/git/linux-2.6/fs/fs-writeback.c:356 writeback_single_inode+0x65/0x1b7() Modules linked in: Pid: 3597, comm: flush-8:0 Not tainted 3.0.0-rc3-00061-g522a899 #164 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81039919>] warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9d [<ffffffff8103994b>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c [<ffffffff810ff887>] writeback_single_inode+0x65/0x1b7 [<ffffffff810ffbe5>] writeback_sb_inodes+0xba/0x134 [<ffffffff81100592>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x16f/0x181 [<ffffffff8110080f>] wb_writeback+0x26b/0x3a7 [<ffffffff81100a92>] wb_do_writeback+0x147/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81100b77>] bdi_writeback_thread+0x8c/0x20f [<ffffffff81100aeb>] ? wb_do_writeback+0x1a0/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81100aeb>] ? wb_do_writeback+0x1a0/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81053f11>] kthread+0x82/0x8a [<ffffffff815e78d4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff81053e8f>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x13a/0x13a [<ffffffff815e78d0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb ---[ end trace fc0a60eb73c3e138 ]--- -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html