Hi, I observed about the same message but after the line Brought up 2 CPUs in dmesg. However the system keeps running fine. I run a Core2 Duo processor. dmesg dump is attached. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2662 check_flags+0x18d/0x190() Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25 #2 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8022fbff>] warn_on_slowpath+0x5f/0x80 [<ffffffff80213a77>] ? native_sched_clock+0x57/0x80 [<ffffffff8022ac1a>] ? hrtick_set+0x3a/0x120 [<ffffffff80254da5>] ? __lock_acquire+0x245/0x1070 [<ffffffff8022ac9d>] ? hrtick_set+0xbd/0x120 [<ffffffff80213a77>] ? native_sched_clock+0x57/0x80 [<ffffffff8024b0b0>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0xa0 [<ffffffff8025180d>] check_flags+0x18d/0x190 [<ffffffff80255c33>] lock_acquire+0x63/0xd0 [<ffffffff8024b101>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x51/0xa0 [<ffffffff8020b210>] ? mwait_idle+0x0/0x50 [<ffffffff8020b0a0>] ? default_idle+0x0/0x80 [<ffffffff8024b161>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20 [<ffffffff8020a849>] __exit_idle+0x29/0x30 [<ffffffff8020b178>] cpu_idle+0x58/0xa0 [<ffffffff80450b5e>] start_secondary+0x2fe/0x430 ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- possible reason: unannotated irqs-on. irq event stamp: 12 Bernard Pidoux
