I got the following splat while booting 2.6.37-rc1+ (ff8b16d7e15a8ba2a6086645614a483e048e3fbf). [ 9.381536] =================================================== [ 9.382380] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 9.382867] --------------------------------------------------- [ 9.383412] kernel/pid.c:419 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 9.383959] [ 9.383959] other info that might help us debug this: [ 9.383960] [ 9.385599] [ 9.385599] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 9.386686] 1 lock held by readahead/365: [ 9.387227] #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [] sys_ioprio_set+0x84/0x261 [ 9.387765] [ 9.387765] stack backtrace: [ 9.388840] Pid: 365, comm: readahead Not tainted 2.6.37-rc1-ab1.fc14.i686.PAE+ #1 [ 9.389374] Call Trace: [ 9.389909] [] ? printk+0x25/0x2b [ 9.390453] [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x7d/0x86 [ 9.390986] [] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x3f/0x53 [ 9.391521] [] find_task_by_vpid+0x1d/0x1f [ 9.392050] [] sys_ioprio_set+0xac/0x261 [ 9.392574] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfe/0x11f [ 9.393110] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38 Complete dmesg and config attached. Let me know if you want me to test any patches. -Arun