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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] rt: fix ipi kfree(), introduce IPI_SOFTIRQ
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:27:51 +0100
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > hm, that's a complex one - we do kfree() from IPI context, [...]
> 
> The patch below might do the trick - it offloads this to a softirq.
> Not tested yet.

ok, it's lightly tested now: it built and booted up fine to X with your config.

	Ingo