Btw, Anders Ossowicki reported a very similar soft lockup on 2.6.38 recently, although without a bug on before. Here is the pointer: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/11/87 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>