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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 (
	possibly?caused by netem)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:57:42 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:34:07PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
...
> Testing wether its triggerable inside a vm might be interesting...

Probably similarly to testing without this patch or even less. Maybe
I should've warned you but this type of bugs in -rc with possible
memory or stack overwrites might be fatal for your data (at least).

Jarek P.