Oh my, sent it with a wrong subject, sorry - the kernel in question i 2.6.31-rc4-rt1: Hi, I'm getting a bunch of BUGs, one from Xorg on startup and lots from jackd. So far they don't seem to carry any ill-effects. [   15.323439] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:9 [   15.323449] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 2462, name: Xorg [   15.323457] Pid: 2462, comm: Xorg Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-rt1 #1 [   15.323463] Call Trace: [   15.323478]  [] ? kmap+0x4f/0x60 [   15.323530]  [] ? i915_gem_pwrite_ioctl+0x79f/0x8f0 [i915] [   15.323542]  [] ? _slab_irq_disable+0x3e/0x60 [   15.323592]  [] ? drm_gem_handle_create+0x6f/0x90 [drm] [   15.323602]  [] ? rt_mutex_lock+0x15/0x50 [   15.323646]  [] ? drm_ioctl+0x15d/0x340 [drm] [   15.323687]  [] ? i915_gem_pwrite_ioctl+0x0/0x8f0 [i915] [   15.323698]  [] ? cpumask_any_but+0x1f/0x30 [   15.323706]  [] ? flush_tlb_page+0x5c/0xc0 [   15.323713]  [] ? ptep_set_access_flags+0x42/0x60 [   15.323721]  [] ? rt_mutex_lock+0x15/0x50 [   15.323730]  [] ? rt_down+0x16/0x50 [   15.323751]  [] ? vfs_ioctl+0x7f/0x90 [   15.323759]  [] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x73/0x670 [   15.323768]  [] ? handle_mm_fault+0x51c/0x730 [   15.323778]  [] ? vfs_write+0x129/0x190 [   15.323787]  [] ? sys_ioctl+0x84/0x90 [   15.323795]  [] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 ... (unrelated) ... [   68.633271] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: jackd/3322 [   68.633287] caller is __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [   68.633295] Pid: 3322, comm: jackd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-rt1 #1 [   68.633301] Call Trace: [   68.633314]  [] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0xc1/0xd0 [   68.633323]  [] ? __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [   68.633335]  [] ? getnstimeofday+0x54/0x110 [   68.633344]  [] ? copy_to_user+0x42/0x130 [   68.633353]  [] ? hrtimer_get_res+0x0/0x30 [   68.633362]  [] ? sys_clock_gettime+0x54/0xc0 [   68.633371]  [] ? work_resched+0x5/0x19 [   98.488299] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: jackd/3321 [   98.488315] caller is __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [   98.488323] Pid: 3321, comm: jackd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-rt1 #1 [   98.488329] Call Trace: [   98.488341]  [] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0xc1/0xd0 [   98.488351]  [] ? __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [   98.488361]  [] ? tick_program_event+0x39/0x50 [   98.488371]  [] ? wakeup_softirqd+0x16/0x60 [   98.488381]  [] ? rcu_irq_exit+0x14/0x90 [   98.488389]  [] ? irq_exit+0x35/0x80 [   98.488398]  [] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x53/0x80 [   98.488408]  [] ? work_resched+0x5/0x19 [  108.743612] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: jackd/3322 [  108.743629] caller is __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [  108.743637] Pid: 3322, comm: jackd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-rt1 #1 [  108.743643] Call Trace: [  108.743657]  [] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0xc1/0xd0 [  108.743667]  [] ? __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [  108.743678]  [] ? getnstimeofday+0x54/0x110 [  108.743687]  [] ? copy_to_user+0x42/0x130 [  108.743696]  [] ? hrtimer_get_res+0x0/0x30 [  108.743704]  [] ? sys_clock_gettime+0x54/0xc0 [  108.743714]  [] ? work_resched+0x5/0x19 [  172.293274] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: jackd/3322 [  172.293292] caller is __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [  172.293300] Pid: 3322, comm: jackd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-rt1 #1 [  172.293305] Call Trace: [  172.293318]  [] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0xc1/0xd0 [  172.293328]  [] ? __schedule+0xc/0xa00 [  172.293340]  [] ? getnstimeofday+0x54/0x110 [  172.293349]  [] ? copy_to_user+0x42/0x130 [  172.293358]  [] ? hrtimer_get_res+0x0/0x30 [  172.293366]  [] ? sys_clock_gettime+0x54/0xc0 [  172.293376]  [] ? work_resched+0x5/0x19 ... (more of the same) ... Dunno if that means anything to you but if you need any more info please CC me as I'm not subscribed. Cheers, koniu