Hi, I've applied the patch in the subject line and everything was running fine for several but today day, during heavy hd activity, i got the following: Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context pdflush(41) at fs/inode.c:245 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [dump_stack+30/48] dump_stack+0x1e/0x30 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [__might_sleep+205/256] __might_sleep+0xcd/0x100 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [clear_inode+31/240] clear_inode+0x1f/0xf0 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [generic_delete_inode+206/768] generic_delete_inode+0xce/0x300 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [iput+100/144] iput+0x64/0x90 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [dput+554/1840] dput+0x22a/0x730 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [release_task+548/880] release_task+0x224/0x370 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [do_exit+1369/2528] do_exit+0x559/0x9e0 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+11/16] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0x10 Sep 5 16:34:13 gollum kernel: Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context pdflush(42) at fs/inode.c:245 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [dump_stack+30/48] dump_stack+0x1e/0x30 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [__might_sleep+205/256] __might_sleep+0xcd/0x100 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [clear_inode+31/240] clear_inode+0x1f/0xf0 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [generic_delete_inode+206/768] generic_delete_inode+0xce/0x300 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [iput+100/144] iput+0x64/0x90 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [dput+554/1840] dput+0x22a/0x730 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [release_task+548/880] release_task+0x224/0x370 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [do_exit+1369/2528] do_exit+0x559/0x9e0 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+11/16] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0x10 Sep 5 16:34:50 gollum kernel: I have also several ACPI patches applied but I think this is unrelated. .config attached. Regards, Boris.