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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:49:19 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Race-free kernel.core_pattern
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> Yup, that's the bug.
> 
> Below is companion patch to be applied after BKL removal which fixes it:

Still there are other do_string (and possibly multiple number integer) users 
which are likely buggy in the same way. It's probably better to find some more 
generic mechanism instead of adding a new lock for each of them.

-Andi