Hi, I am getting this on init. I think while udev inits: i_size_write() called without i_sem Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Call Trace: Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] i_size_write_check+0x57/0x60 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] simple_commit_write+0x3e/0xa0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] page_symlink+0xec/0x1dd Feb 3 10:5i_size_write() called without i_sem Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Call Trace: Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] i_size_write_check+0x57/0x60 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] simple_commit_write+0x3e/0xa0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] page_symlink+0xec/0x1dd Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] ramfs_symlink+0x5d/0xc0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] vfs_symlink+0x57/0xb0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] sys_symlink+0xd3/0xf0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] sysenter_past_esp+0x43/0x65 3:53 tachyon [] ramfs_symlink+0x5d/0xc0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] vfs_symlink+0x57/0xb0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] sys_symlink+0xd3/0xf0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon [] sysenter_past_esp+0x43/0x65 This appears about 10 times. I haven't teste the kernel further. .config attached dmesg: Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Linux version 2.6.2-rc3-mm1 (root@tachyon) (gcc-Version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7)) #2 Tue Feb 3 10:35:35 CET 2004 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon 127MB HIGHMEM available. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon 896MB LOWMEM available. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon zapping low mappings. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon On node 0 totalpages: 262128 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon HighMem zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon DMI 2.2 present. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia ) @ 0x000f6b80 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3000 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3040 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff79c0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Built 1 zonelists Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon current: c03f9a60 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon current->thread_info: c047e000 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Initializing CPU#0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda7 devfs=nomount vga=0x51A video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap elevator=cfq doataraid noraid hdb=none hdg=none splash=verbose resume2=swap:/dev/hde5 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide_setup: hdb=none Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide_setup: hdg=none Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Detected 2104.938 MHz processor. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Memory: 1032924k/1048512k available (2623k kernel code, 14668k reserved, 950k data, 156k init, 131008k highmem) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Calibrating delay loop... 4169.72 BogoMIPS Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Freeing initrd memory: 304k freed Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Intel machine check architecture supported. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) stepping 01 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NET: Registered protocol family 16 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon PCI: Using configuration type 1 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: Interpreter enabled Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT] Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGPB._PRT] Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs 16) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs 17) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCE] (IRQs 16) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs *23) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon SCSI subsystem initialized Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] enabled at IRQ 11 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] enabled at IRQ 5 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] enabled at IRQ 10 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] enabled at IRQ 11 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] enabled at IRQ 10 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] enabled at IRQ 10 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] enabled at IRQ 11 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] enabled at IRQ 5 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 5 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 11 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8808000, size 16384k Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=1 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:ea60 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon vesafb: scrolling: redraw Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Machine check exception polling timer started. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon apm: overridden by ACPI. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de). Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NTFS driver 2.1.6 [Flags: R/W]. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon udf: registering filesystem Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (36 C) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Using cfq io scheduler Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.19. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0147b:1c00 bound to 0000:00:04.0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: FlexCopII(rev.130) chip found Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: the chip has 6 hardware filters Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon driver_initialize MAC address = ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon DVB: registering new adapter (Technisat SkyStar2 driver). Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (Zarlink MT312)... Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NFORCE2: chipset revision 162 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon hda: _NEC DV-5800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon hdc: NU DVDRW DDW-081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon hdd: No disk in drive Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon libata version 0.81 loaded. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon sata_sil version 0.52 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF993F080 ctl 0xF993F08A bmdma 0xF993F000 irq 11 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF993F0C0 ctl 0xF993F0CA bmdma 0xF993F008 irq 11 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3c69 86:3c01 87:4003 88:203f Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 312581808 sectors (lba48) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon scsi0 : sata_sil Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ata2: thread exiting Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon scsi1 : sata_sil Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG SP1614N Rev: 0.81 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon I2O: Event thread created as pid 14 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon i2o: Checking for PCI I2O controllers... Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon I2O configuration manager v 0.04. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon i2c /dev entries driver Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon i2c_adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5000 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon i2c_adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5100 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.2 (Tue Jan 27 10:28:52 2004 UTC). Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- snd-card-0. error = -16 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49513 usecs Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon intel8x0: clocking to 47375 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ALSA device list: Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon #0: NVidia nForce2 at 0xcc081000, irq 11 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NET: Registered protocol family 2 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NET: Registered protocol family 1 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon NET: Registered protocol family 17 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Reiserfs journal params: device sda7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon reiserfs: checking transaction log (sda7) for (sda7) Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Using r5 hash to sort names Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Feb 3 10:53:53 tachyon Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed