Ingo, all I, silly person that I am, configured an RT, SMP, PREEMPT_DEBUG system. Someone put code in the NMI path to modify the preempt count which, often as not will generate a PREEMPT_DEBUG message as there is no tell what state the preempt count is in on an NMI interrupt. I have sent the attached patch to Andrew on this, but meanwhile, if you want RT, SMP, PREEMPT_DEBUG you will be much better off with this. -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/