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Subject: Re: commit af32cc7b causes stalls on 3.18.23
To: Corey Wright <undefined@pobox.com>,
	Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>
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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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On 10/30/2015 09:56 PM, Corey Wright wrote:
> Running applications under GNU Screen causes the 3.18.23 kernel to stall and
> the application to hang.  Reverting commit af32cc7b, ie "tty: fix stall caused
> by missing memory barrier in drivers/tty/n_tty.c", fixes the problem.

Hi Corey,

Does doing the same on mainline work for you?


Thanks,
Sasha