Hi Tony, I spent my free time on preparing the enclosed patch which is a single large patch ( consisting of about 12 individual patch) for ia64 lockdep in Linux 2.6.38. I can break it into logically-applied parts if you wan to take the most essential part than the whole the whole patch set. I've done limited test with the dot.config attached with upstream git tree. if you can get the patch merged into your test branch, I will commit more of my free time to get known issues (like strak trace ...