Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:28:52 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:10:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > Whichever way we go, we should get a wiggle on - this has been hanging
 > around for too long.  Dave, do you have time to determine whether
 > reverting 88b9e456b1649722673ff ("ipc: don't allocate a copy larger
 > than max") fixes things up?

Ok, with that reverted it's been grinding away for a few hours without incident.
Normally I see the oops within a minute or so.

	Dave
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