Hello, Just noticed: kernel: [ 1917.133154] INFO: RCU detected CPU 0 stall (t=485140/3000 jiffies) kernel: [ 1917.133154] Pid: 511, comm: kmemleak Not tainted 2.6.31-rc2-nv-git1-00254-ga4e2f0a-dirty #2 kernel: [ 1917.133154] Call Trace: kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? printk+0x23/0x36 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] __rcu_pending+0x140/0x210 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] rcu_pending+0x2a/0x70 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] update_process_times+0x3f/0x80 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] tick_sched_timer+0x6f/0xf0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] __run_hrtimer+0x56/0xe0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xf0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xf0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] hrtimer_interrupt+0x145/0x270 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0xb0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0xc/0x14 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x36/0x3c kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? _read_unlock_irqrestore+0x41/0x70 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] find_and_get_object+0x75/0xe0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? find_and_get_object+0x0/0xe0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] scan_block+0x87/0x110 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] kmemleak_scan+0x280/0x420 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? kmemleak_scan+0x0/0x420 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? kmemleak_scan_thread+0x0/0xc0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x50/0xc0 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] kthread+0x84/0x90 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] ? kthread+0x0/0x90 kernel: [ 1917.133154] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c static struct kmemleak_object *find_and_get_object(unsigned long ptr, int alias) { unsigned long flags; struct kmemleak_object *object = NULL; rcu_read_lock(); read_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags); if (ptr >= min_addr && ptr < max_addr) object = lookup_object(ptr, alias); >> read_unlock_irqrestore(&kmemleak_lock, flags); /* check whether the object is still available */ if (object && !get_object(object)) object = NULL; rcu_read_unlock(); return object; } I'm not sure where this is kmemleak's problem, since with 31 I see lots of 'not tainted' reports on my laptop. Sergey