This is just fyi: Note, I do have a large number of debug options turned on, that could influence this. This occurred on a Lenovo T500 Laptop, and x86_64 v2.6.33-rt6 BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low! turning off the locking correctness validator. Pid: 3334, comm: pulseaudio Not tainted 2.6.33-rt6 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8106d099>] save_trace+0xab/0xb3 [<ffffffff8106d123>] add_lock_to_list+0x82/0xc2 [<ffffffff81076387>] ? rt_mutex_adjust_prio+0x1f/0x3e [<ffffffff81070a77>] __lock_acquire+0xbdc/0xda3 [<ffffffff81037c1d>] ? finish_task_switch+0x77/0xf4 [<ffffffff81037ba6>] ? finish_task_switch+0x0/0xf4 [<ffffffff81070d16>] lock_acquire+0xd8/0xf5 [<ffffffff81076387>] ? rt_mutex_adjust_prio+0x1f/0x3e [<ffffffff8135c971>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x47/0x7f [<ffffffff81076387>] ? rt_mutex_adjust_prio+0x1f/0x3e [<ffffffff81076387>] rt_mutex_adjust_prio+0x1f/0x3e [<ffffffff8135b51c>] rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x6d/0x76 [<ffffffff8135b52e>] rt_mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb [<ffffffff81078115>] rt_up_read+0x3b/0x40 [<ffffffff81043cd1>] ? exit_mm+0xd4/0x156 [<ffffffff81043ce4>] exit_mm+0xe7/0x156 [<ffffffff810979e0>] ? audit_free_context+0xa7/0xd0 [<ffffffff810457f7>] do_exit+0x1fe/0x784 [<ffffffff8106ee4c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x113/0x13e [<ffffffff81097ca0>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x114/0x140 [<ffffffff81045e59>] complete_and_exit+0x0/0x1f [<ffffffff81002c2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -- 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