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To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.7p6 hang
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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> ...
> I have the same problem on my setup. To me, it looks like the loop in
> spawn_ksoftirqd() is suffering from some sort of atomicity problem.

Does a `set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);' in spawn_ksoftirqd()
fix it?  If so we have a rogue initcall...

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