Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:22:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> The other thing I've found printks to hide before is timing bugs / races.
> Unfortunately I can't see one here, but maybe someone else can ;-)
> Maybe inserting a 1ms delay or something in place of the printk would
> have the same effect?

I've tried a number of timing related workarounds, namely;
schedule_timeout(2*HZ) and some long spinning loops. I've also thrown a 
schedule() in there at some point.
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