I just compiled and booted bk head (2.6.1-rc1+), changeset key ak@muc.de[torvalds]|ChangeSet|20040101194103|59346 and got this, probably when running /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop, but I'm not sure about that. It's a Debian box. nfsd: last server has exited nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:1856 in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 Call Trace: [] __might_sleep+0xab/0xd0 [] do_IRQ+0x109/0x140 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x65/0x70 [] new_handle+0x1e/0x50 [] journal_start+0x83/0xd0 [] start_transaction+0x23/0x60 [] ext3_delete_inode+0x0/0x100 [] ext3_delete_inode+0x27/0x100 [] ext3_delete_inode+0x0/0x100 [] generic_delete_inode+0x6c/0x110 [] ext3_put_inode+0x14/0x30 [] iput+0x63/0x80 [] dput+0xfc/0x210 [] svc_export_put+0x42/0x80 [] cache_clean+0x144/0x220 [] cache_flush+0x15/0x50 [] nfsd_export_flush+0x4c/0x70 [] nfsd+0x31d/0x3a0 [] nfsd+0x0/0x3a0 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc Config and dmesg attached. Yes, I know about the hdg errors; that's a "junk" disk not used for the actual OS files.