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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [xen-4.0.1-rc5-pre] [pvops 2.6.32.16] Complete freeze
	within 2 days, no info in serial log
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:21:51 -0700
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To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@Oracle.COM>
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  On 08/05/2010 07:52 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> The videograbber (vl4) stack trace you sent to me some time ago looked
> liked a mutex was held for a very very long time... which I wonder if
> that is the cmpxch compiler bug that has hit some folks. Are you using
> Debian?

The symptom of that bug is that gcc doesn't see any writes to a static 
variable, so it puts it in a RO section, causing faults.  So while I 
guess its within the realm of possibilities that this is a different 
manifestation of the same bug, it doesn't seem likely.

     J