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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected
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* Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> This softlockup is seen in the 2.6.24-rc4 either and looks like a 
> message because this is seen while running tbench and machine 
> continues running other test's after the softlockup messages and some 
> times seen with the bootup, but the machines reaches the login prompt 
> and able to continue running tests.

do you know whether there's any true delay when this happens, or is it a 
pure softlockup-detector false positive?

	Ingo