I just saw this when booting a current linux-2.6.git kernel (3fe0344faf7fdcb158bd5c1a9aec960a8d70c8e8). .config and full bootlog attached. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/jeremy/git/linux/mm/slab.c:3029 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 388, name: lvm Pid: 388, comm: lvm Not tainted 2.6.30 #225 Call Trace: [] ? __init_rwsem+0x29/0x39 [] __might_sleep+0x110/0x112 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x38/0x12b [] ? mempool_alloc_pages_isa+0x0/0x10 [] mempool_create_node+0x2f/0x152 [] ? mempool_free_pages+0x0/0xb [] mempool_create+0xd/0xf [] init_emergency_isa_pool+0x28/0x4f [] blk_queue_bounce_limit+0x40/0x56 [] dm_table_set_restrictions+0x82/0xa6 [dm_mod] [] dm_swap_table+0x132/0x15a [dm_mod] [] dev_suspend+0xfd/0x177 [dm_mod] [] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x252/0x2a2 [dm_mod] [] ? dev_suspend+0x0/0x177 [dm_mod] [] vfs_ioctl+0x2a/0x77 [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4a7/0x4fa [] sys_ioctl+0x57/0x7a [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b J