Hi, booting a 3.8.5 patched with 3.8.4-rt2 I get something like this dmesg'ed: ... [ 105.901078] BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low! [ 105.901079] turning off the locking correctness validator. [ 105.901083] Pid: 3213, comm: mysqld Not tainted 3.8.5-rt2+ #3 [ 105.901084] Call Trace: [ 105.901094] [<ffffffff8107d1b6>] add_lock_to_list.isra.22.constprop.37+0x45/0x9d [ 105.901098] [<ffffffff8107f1a3>] __lock_acquire+0xc55/0xde2 [ 105.901104] [<ffffffff814c993f>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x61/0x6e [ 105.901107] [<ffffffff814c8ac1>] ? rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x8a/0x27c [ 105.901110] [<ffffffff814c9911>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x33/0x6e [ 105.901113] [<ffffffff814c9911>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x33/0x6e [ 105.901117] [<ffffffff810dd01f>] ? __local_lock+0x28/0x77 [ 105.901121] [<ffffffff8107f7a4>] lock_acquire+0xc4/0x112 [ 105.901124] [<ffffffff810dd01f>] ? __local_lock+0x28/0x77 [ 105.901127] [<ffffffff814c90fa>] rt_spin_lock+0x39/0x40 [ 105.901130] [<ffffffff810dd01f>] ? __local_lock+0x28/0x77 [ 105.901135] [<ffffffff81062741>] ? migrate_disable+0xeb/0xf9 [ 105.901138] [<ffffffff810dd01f>] __local_lock+0x28/0x77 [ 105.901142] [<ffffffff810de1e5>] lru_add_drain+0x2e/0x5a [ 105.901145] [<ffffffff810de224>] __pagevec_release+0x13/0x2e [ 105.901149] [<ffffffff810de2b0>] pagevec_release+0xe/0x10 [ 105.901153] [<ffffffff810de7e5>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x12a/0x347 [ 105.901156] [<ffffffff814c9911>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x33/0x6e [ 105.901158] [<ffffffff814c8d60>] ? rt_spin_lock_slowunlock+0x47/0x66 [ 105.901163] [<ffffffff810b7140>] ? trace_preempt_on+0x1e/0x3b [ 105.901167] [<ffffffff810625dc>] ? migrate_enable+0x156/0x1d0 [ 105.901170] [<ffffffff810625dc>] ? migrate_enable+0x156/0x1d0 [ 105.901175] [<ffffffff81169456>] ? __dquot_initialize+0x25/0x11d [ 105.901179] [<ffffffff810dea73>] truncate_inode_pages+0x12/0x14 [ 105.901182] [<ffffffff811b0eda>] ext4_evict_inode+0xf3/0x333 [ 105.901186] [<ffffffff811305b7>] evict+0xaa/0x16e [ 105.901189] [<ffffffff81130eb5>] iput+0x144/0x14d [ 105.901192] [<ffffffff81126316>] do_unlinkat+0x14a/0x1e4 [ 105.901197] [<ffffffff8107fbfb>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12d/0x164 [ 105.901200] [<ffffffff81263a3e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 105.901203] [<ffffffff81127e27>] sys_unlink+0x16/0x18 [ 105.901207] [<ffffffff814d0119>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ... It's repeatable in the sense of showing up at system start. It points mostly at a different program for causing the problem. Common seems to be something filesystem related as reported here: [ 105.901182] [<ffffffff811b0eda>] ext4_evict_inode+0xf3/0x333 Digging a little bit I found this thread as an example: http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=147179 showing that there may be real bugs hidden behind such messages. My questions: 1.) Does it make sense to dig a little big deeper? (I'am not a experienced kernelhacker, last -rt was a 3.6.5-rt11) 2.) If 1.) : How to proceed? Thanks in advance! Bernhard -- 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