Greetings, Here is an aged warning, which is bisected down to commit 7d36b26be0f3c6b86e3ab7e1539e42f3a3bc79ca Author: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue Jul 26 13:13:44 2011 +0200 lockdep: Fix trace_hardirqs_on_caller() [ 13.392541] Testing tracer irqsoff: PASSED [ 13.428537] Testing tracer branch: [ 20.093074] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 20.093861] WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/kernel/lockdep.c:3493 check_flags+0x166/0x386() [ 20.093861] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-00102-ga184d4e #7 [ 20.093861] Call Trace: [ 20.093861] [<41064af3>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8e/0xcd [ 20.093861] [<410f1372>] ? check_flags+0x166/0x386 [ 20.093861] [<41064c6b>] warn_slowpath_null+0x30/0x45 [ 20.093861] [<410f1372>] check_flags+0x166/0x386 [ 20.093861] [<410f7cc5>] lock_acquire+0x5b/0x24a [ 20.093861] [<4107f7d8>] run_timer_softirq+0x2a6/0x77d [ 20.093861] [<4107f72f>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x1fd/0x77d [ 20.093861] [<4107f449>] ? spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x26/0x26 [ 20.093861] [<41075293>] __do_softirq+0x234/0x5d6 [ 20.093861] [<4107505f>] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0x2b/0x2b [ 20.093861] [<41075adf>] ? irq_exit+0x9d/0x14b [ 20.093861] [<4103b1b7>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xe1/0xfd [ 20.093861] [<41a75bc7>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x2f/0x34 [ 20.093861] [<41151975>] ? ftrace_likely_update+0x3bb/0x446 [ 20.093861] [<41102e17>] ? arch_local_irq_enable+0x6b/0x80 [ 20.093861] [<41a74287>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x80/0xc5 [ 20.093861] [<410babf0>] ? finish_task_switch+0x109/0x1df [ 20.093861] [<410bab8a>] ? finish_task_switch+0xa3/0x1df [ 20.093861] [<41a7222b>] ? __schedule+0xb89/0xd51 [ 20.093861] [<4112efbe>] ? rcu_idle_exit+0x1d0/0x26c [ 20.093861] [<4112efd3>] ? rcu_idle_exit+0x1e5/0x26c [ 20.093861] [<41a7252f>] ? schedule+0x13c/0x14c [ 20.093861] [<41014615>] ? cpu_idle+0x1d5/0x1fd [ 20.093861] [<41a01c3d>] ? rest_init+0x319/0x32c [ 20.093861] [<4216637a>] ? start_kernel+0x84c/0x85f [ 20.093861] [<42165322>] ? i386_start_kernel+0xf8/0x10b Thanks, Fengguang