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From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
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> > > A patch to fix the problem and reorganize the code a bit for greater 
> > > readability is below.  I'd appreciate it if people could try it out on 
> > > various locking litmus tests in our archives.
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick solution, Alan.  The results from our archives look
> > good.
> 
> Here's a much smaller patch, suitable for the -stable kernels.  It fixes 
> the bug without doing the larger code reorganization (which will go into 
> a separate patch).  Can you test this one?

Testing in progress..., first results are good.

(+1 on splitting the patches)

  Andrea