Hi, I am seeing backtraces on 2.6.15-rc7 on NFS traffic that are similar to this one:
Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:140 Call trace: [c0005340] check_bug_trap+0xb0/0xd0 [c0005bb4] program_check_exception+0x174/0x4f0 [c0004f04] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c [c0021b8c] local_bh_enable+0x1c/0x90 [c0208410] skb_copy_bits+0x2a0/0x3c0 [c020f778] __skb_linearize+0x98/0x190 [c019f3b0] mv643xx_eth_start_xmit+0x2c0/0x5a0 [c02113f8] dev_queue_xmit+0x258/0x3c0 [c0232ffc] ip_finish_output+0x14c/0x2e0 [c0231c50] ip_fragment+0x4c0/0x720 [c02338c8] ip_output+0x258/0x360 [c02322d8] ip_push_pending_frames+0x428/0x4c0 [c0252b38] udp_push_pending_frames+0x108/0x230 [c02536b0] udp_sendmsg+0x3b0/0x6a0 [c025c660] inet_sendmsg+0x50/0x80 [c02025d8] sock_sendmsg+0xa8/0xf0 [c0202654] kernel_sendmsg+0x34/0x60 CONFIG_PPC=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y CONFIG_MV643XX_ETH=y In mv643xx_eth_start_xmit: [...] spin_lock_irqsave(&mp->lock, flags); [...] /* Since hardware can't handle unaligned fragments smaller * than 9 bytes, if we find any, we linearize the skb * and start again. */ [...] skb_linearize(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); [...] which ends up calling kunmap_skb_frag(vaddr), which, when CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y, calls local_bh_enable with interrupts off. -- Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html