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Subject: Re: [CHECKER] potential deadlocks
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dawson Engler <engler@csl.stanford.edu>
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On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 06:05, Dawson Engler wrote:
> BTW, are there known deadlocks (harmless or otherwise)?  Debugging
> the checker is a bit hard since false negatives are silent...

2.4.21pre5 has one in the scsi reset handler for ide-scsi, however its going to
depend on your tools following function pointer chains and stuff to
find it I fear

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