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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Subject: Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 ( possibly?caused by netem)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 18:11:27 +0200
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On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:57:42 Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> 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).
Fortunately all the data on that machine should either be replaceable or 
regularly backuped.

Will test later today if that patch bugs.

Andres