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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:33:37 -0500
From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 9] Lock the entire mm to prevent any mmu related
	operation to happen
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I don't think this lock mechanism is completely working.  I have
gotten a few failures trying to dereference 0x100100 which appears to
be LIST_POISON1.

Thanks,
Robin