Hi, in kernel/rtmutex.c near line 685 in function rt_spin_lock_fastlock I do see: /* temporary hack! */ if (likely(!current->in_printk)) might_sleep(); and Virtualbox constantly trips on this. Can I assume this is a problem in the virtualbox 3.0.4 host modules? BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rtmutex.c:685 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 11724, name: VirtualBox Pid: 11724, comm: VirtualBox Tainted: G N 2.6.29.6-jen82-rt #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff802388e6>] __might_sleep+0x10a/0x10c [<ffffffff804c6edf>] rt_spin_lock+0x2f/0x78 [<ffffffffa05cb89f>] RTSpinlockAcquire+0xd/0xf [vboxdrv] [<ffffffffa05ceb13>] RTHandleTableLookupWithCtx+0x79/0x102 [vboxdrv] (To note that their RT* functions have nothing to do with realtime—sigh) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html