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On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 09:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:26 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > From: Carl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>
> >=20
> > Fix the 64 bit user code backtrace which currently may hang the system.
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
>=20
> That looks weird. I doubt it's the right fix for the problem. Paul,
> I remember this was discussed earlier, did we come up with a proper fix
> already ?

We decided there probably wasn't a bug there at all:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-May/056449.html

Haven't heard from Carl if he reproduced the hang and traced it to
something else.

cheers

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