Hello, Here are some kmemcheck warnings I suspect to occur either in MM/kmemcheck subsystem, VFS, or radeon driver (the last two potentially being related). The first one: Sometimes, I get the following at boot when using kmemcheck and other debug options (.config file appended): Freeing unused kernel memory: 628k freed WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff8801c1e62600) 7025e6c10188ffff003adec10188ffff000110000000adde000220000000adde u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u ^ Pid: 1712, comm: udevd Tainted: G W 3.2.0-rc6 #11 Acer Aspire 7750G/JE70_HR RIP: 0010:[] [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x66/0x120 RSP: 0018:ffff8801c2497ce0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8801c1de24e0 RCX: 000000000003eac8 RDX: 000000000003eac0 RSI: 00000000001d4b30 RDI: 00000000000000d0 RBP: ffff8801c2497d10 R08: ffff8801c249c4c8 R09: ffff8801c1e63690 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8801c1e62600 R13: ffff8801c7814400 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: ffffffff8110714b FS: 00007f0c97f14720(0000) GS:ffff8801c7e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff8801c6454448 CR3: 00000001c2452000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [] anon_vma_fork+0x7b/0x130 [] dup_mm+0x228/0x520 [] copy_process+0xd92/0x1460 [] do_fork+0xd1/0x2b0 [] sys_clone+0x23/0x30 [] stub_clone+0x13/0x20 [] 0xffffffffffffffff udev[1727]: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 udev[1717]: renamed network interface wlan0-eth0 to eth0 This log is from 3.2-rc6, I may have already reported it through bugzilla but I cannot check the status of this bug since it's down, so I'm reporting by mail. Btw, I also have several other kmemchecks warnings, one at kernel init: memory used by lock dependency info: 6367 kB per task-struct memory footprint: 2688 bytes ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2739 lockdep_trace_alloc+0xb5/0xc0() Hardware name: Aspire 7750G Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0-rc6 #11 Call Trace: [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xb5/0xc0 [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x8c/0x6b0 [] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [] kmemcheck_alloc_shadow+0x54/0xf0 [] new_slab+0x27f/0x370 [] __slab_alloc.isra.53+0x432/0x546 [] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [] ? debug_objects_mem_init+0x65/0x220 [] ? error_exit+0x29/0xb0 [] ? debug_objects_mem_init+0x65/0x220 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x10f/0x120 [] debug_objects_mem_init+0x65/0x220 [] start_kernel+0x25a/0x2ef [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x98/0x9c [] x86_64_start_kernel+0x105/0x10c ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- ODEBUG: 12 of 12 active objects replaced some others in VFS: EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 64-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff8801c3bdc000) 0000000000000000616c74696d65002f736f6c69642f616374696f6e732f736f u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u ^ Pid: 2423, comm: X Tainted: G W 3.2.0-rc6 #11 Acer Aspire 7750G/JE70_HR RIP: 0010:[] [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x66/0x120 RSP: 0018:ffff88019f88dd48 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00000000004859b8 RDX: 00000000004859b0 RSI: 00000000001d44b0 RDI: 00000000000000d0 RBP: ffff88019f88dd78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000002585dc0 R10: 000000000000000a R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff8801c3bdc000 R13: ffff8801c7804d00 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: ffffffff81130176 FS: 00007f0c6d9848a0(0000) GS:ffff8801c7e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff8801c6454448 CR3: 00000001aaa81000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [] getname_flags+0x36/0x240 [] user_path_at_empty+0x30/0xa0 [] user_path_at+0xc/0x10 [] vfs_fstatat+0x35/0x60 [] vfs_stat+0x16/0x20 [] sys_newstat+0x15/0x30 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [] 0xffffffffffffffff eth0: deauthenticating from 9a:37:17:7c:4a:2c by local choice (reason=3) and finally some in radeon driver: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 16-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff8801c3ec4822) ffff00ffffffffbf7fff00dbefc7feffffff00fff7ffffffffff00fcffffffff i i u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u ^ Pid: 2423, comm: X Tainted: G W 3.2.0-rc6 #11 Acer Aspire 7750G/JE70_HR RIP: 0010:[] [] drm_fb_helper_setcmap+0x125/0x3c0 RSP: 0018:ffff8801aaac3918 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000011 RBX: 0000000000000011 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8801c3ec4800 RSI: 0000000000ff0000 RDI: ffff8801c3ea33a0 RBP: ffff8801aaac39d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000011 R10: 000000000000ff00 R11: 000000000000ff00 R12: ffff8801c3ea3000 R13: ffff8801c3ec4400 R14: ffff8801c3ec4a24 R15: ffff8801c3ec44b8 FS: 00007f0c6d9848a0(0000) GS:ffff8801c7e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff8801c6454448 CR3: 00000001aaa81000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [] fb_set_cmap+0x65/0x140 [] fb_set_var+0x19d/0x3b0 [] fbcon_blank+0x1e4/0x2d0 [] do_unblank_screen+0xab/0x1d0 [] complete_change_console+0x64/0xf0 [] vt_ioctl+0x1a65/0x2070 [] tty_ioctl+0x28c/0xc50 [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x570 [] sys_ioctl+0x4a/0x80 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [] 0xffffffffffffffff Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.07 seconds) done. but this one may be also a VFS warning. For information, I'm using slub allocator, on a Core i7 laptop in 64bits mode, 6GB RAM (Acer Aspire 7750G to be precise), on Slackware64 13.37. Appended: .config file for this kernel. CC