I cranked up my 3000 NFS mounts test case on today's net-next (3.8.0-rc3+) and about 8 of these splats. There were around 780 mounts active when these occurred. Seems like the system continues OK, so not sure how important this is... INFO: task btserver:8756 blocked for more than 180 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. btserver D 0000000000000004 0 8756 5781 0x00000080 ffff880404ab1bf8 0000000000000046 0000000004ab1ba8 0000000000000432 ffff880404ab0010 ffff880402263f20 ffff880404ab1fd8 00000000000132c0 00000000000132c0 00000000000132c0 ffff880404ab1fd8 00000000000132c0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff815491ea>] schedule+0x5f/0x61 [<ffffffff815494fa>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x1f [<ffffffff81547ea8>] __mutex_lock_common+0x264/0x42d [<ffffffff8115fadb>] ? do_last+0x1db/0xa4e [<ffffffff8115fadb>] ? do_last+0x1db/0xa4e [<ffffffff815480d0>] mutex_lock_nested+0x16/0x18 [<ffffffff8115fadb>] do_last+0x1db/0xa4e [<ffffffff8115f3a5>] ? path_init+0xcd/0x2b6 [<ffffffff8116090b>] path_openat+0xcb/0x363 [<ffffffff810d0055>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1df/0x53d [<ffffffff81160ca8>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x84 [<ffffffff8154a2db>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x45/0x52 [<ffffffff8116c203>] ? __alloc_fd+0x106/0x11a [<ffffffff815490f9>] ? __schedule+0x561/0x5a3 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth4#621 [<ffffffff81153bfc>] do_sys_open+0x6d/0xff 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth3#612 [<ffffffff81153cbb>] sys_open+0x1c/0x1e [<ffffffff8154f629>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 2 locks held by btserver/8756: #0: (sb_writers#10){......}, at: [<ffffffff81170013>] mnt_want_write+0x1f/0x48 #1: (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#4){......}, at: [<ffffffff8115fadb>] do_last+0x1db/0xa4e -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html