Hi Andrew, Following call trace is seen will booting up the machine. Similar call trace was reported for 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/26/77 Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2664 check_flags() [] dump_trace+0x68/0x1d2 [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c [] show_trace+0xf/0x11 [] dump_stack+0x12/0x14 [] check_flags+0x92/0x145 [] lock_acquire+0x2f/0x8a [] _spin_lock+0x33/0x3e [] ifind+0x16/0x7f [] ilookup5_nowait+0x33/0x38 [] sysfs_addrm_start+0x36/0x84 [] create_dir+0x37/0x86 [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2d/0x40 [] kobject_add+0xe9/0x190 [] kset_register+0x19/0x2e [] mnt_init+0xe0/0x1be [] vfs_caches_init+0x11e/0x12e [] start_kernel+0x2ed/0x318 ======================= irq event stamp: 1139108 hardirqs last enabled at (1139108): [] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x24d/0x273 hardirqs last disabled at (1139107): [] cpu_clock+0xd/0x4c softirqs last enabled at (1138798): [] do_softirq+0x36/0x51 softirqs last disabled at (1138793): [] do_softirq+0x36/0x51 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0004e3bd 00000000 00000001 00000000 -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL.