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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:59:39 +0100
From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32 regression, hard lock
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> > I did revert to 2.31.5 and to my big surprise found a similar thing happened
> > so it is not a regression, at least not from 2.6.31.

I will compare the messages in the 2 kernel versions. In 2.6.31 the symptoms were slightly
different, the ppp connection worked long after first processes became unresponsive.
"gnome-do" was apparently the first process to hang on the spinlock and tcptrack was 
running again.

Richard
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