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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:42:48 +0100
From: Frank van Maarseveen <F.vanMaarseveen@inter.NL.net>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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Subject: Re: <=2.4.17 deadlock (RedHat 7.2, SMP, ext3 related?) (2)
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In-Reply-To: <005c01c18cc3$305283f0$010411ac@local>; from manfred@colorfullife.com on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 10:36:11PM +0100
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 10:36:11PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> If you are brave, you can try the attached patch.

Your assuptions about the address of kernel_flag and
all_ppp_lock were correct (except for an obvious typo).

The patch seems to work, no deadlocks so far but I'll keep
an eye on it.


Thanks,

-- 
Frank
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