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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Hello,

Sorry about the long delay.  Was traveling quite a bit.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 07:12:04PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>

Please explain what the race condition in detail and how it gets fixed
by the patch.  This isn't a trivial change and non-trivial changes
especially stuff like race condition fixes definitely require detailed
explanation.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun