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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:54:14 -0800
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Subject: Re: oops with 2.4.17 + mini-ll patch
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Matt Bernstein wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this is related to your patch (which looked harmless enough to
> me :), but here it is anyway.

mmm..  Probably coincidental.

> Dual PIII 1GHz, modular everything inc. ATA/IDE (VIA); SCSI (gdth.o);
> NFSv3 (udp, client only); autofs4; ext2 only for local fs. Debian woody.

It could be a timer deletion race.  There are still zillions of these,
but nobody ever encounters them.

What was the system doing at the time?  Do you think a module could
have been in the process of unloading?  autofs unmount, something
like that?

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