I got a whole bunch of these in 3.0.14-rt31 that basically look alike. Will try to drill deeper down. In the meantime, I'm happy to provide more information if anyone would like. Thanks, John [ 4251.928097] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/jkacur/rt.linux.git/kernel/rtmutex.c:645 [ 4251.928100] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 168, name: irq/9-acpi [ 4251.928102] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 4251.928103] irq event stamp: 5888 [ 4251.928104] hardirqs last enabled at (5887): [<ffffffff810b2a69>] rcu_preempt_note_context_switch+0x1c8/0x1d9 [ 4251.928109] hardirqs last disabled at (5888): [<ffffffff813e4326>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x19/0x79 [ 4251.928113] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffff81041c88>] copy_process+0x517/0xfbd [ 4251.928116] softirqs last disabled at (0): [< (null)>] (null) [ 4251.928119] Pid: 168, comm: irq/9-acpi Not tainted 3.0.14-rt31-debug-00322-g6aaac97b #1 [ 4251.928121] Call Trace: [ 4251.928125] [<ffffffff81037b06>] __might_sleep+0xf4/0xf9 [ 4251.928128] [<ffffffff8107e4f5>] rt_spin_lock_fastlock.clone.0+0x24/0x31 [ 4251.928130] [<ffffffff813e3b33>] rt_spin_lock+0x16/0x40 [ 4251.928133] [<ffffffff8103eb60>] __wake_up+0x28/0x50 [ 4251.928136] [<ffffffff8122ca51>] acpi_ec_gpe_handler+0x72/0xc4 [ 4251.928145] [<ffffffff81238443>] acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch+0xbd/0x12e [ 4251.928147] [<ffffffff81238727>] acpi_ev_gpe_detect+0xbb/0x110 [ 4251.928150] [<ffffffff81236e88>] acpi_ev_sci_xrupt_handler+0x22/0x2b [ 4251.928152] [<ffffffff81226e5e>] acpi_irq+0x16/0x31 [ 4251.928155] [<ffffffff810adcab>] irq_forced_thread_fn+0x25/0x45 [ 4251.928157] [<ffffffff813e45d1>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x50/0x5e [ 4251.928159] [<ffffffff810adaee>] irq_thread+0xff/0x1e9 [ 4251.928162] [<ffffffff810adc86>] ? exit_irq_thread+0x74/0x74 [ 4251.928164] [<ffffffff810ad9ef>] ? irq_finalize_oneshot+0xaf/0xaf [ 4251.928166] [<ffffffff810ad9ef>] ? irq_finalize_oneshot+0xaf/0xaf [ 4251.928169] [<ffffffff81062b48>] kthread+0x94/0x9c [ 4251.928171] [<ffffffff813e1f99>] ? preempt_schedule+0x4b/0x53 [ 4251.928174] [<ffffffff813e45da>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x59/0x5e [ 4251.928177] [<ffffffff813ebb54>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 4251.928180] [<ffffffff813e4984>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe [ 4251.928182] [<ffffffff81062ab4>] ? kthreadd+0x168/0x168 [ 4251.928184] [<ffffffff813ebb50>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb -- 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