From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- inconsistent {in-softirq-W} -> {softirq-on-R}
   usage.
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:06:35 +0100
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Andrew Morton wrote, On 12/15/2007 12:13 PM:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:58:24 -0500 "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 14, 2007 6:36 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:13:21 -0500
>>> "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Pid: 6944, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc5-mm1 #26)

...

>>>> note: cat[6944] exited with preempt_count 4

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>> Dec 14 21:32:55 feargod kernel: cat/6180 is trying to release lock

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> Can you suggest a way in which others can reproduce this?

Buy a cat?

Jarek P.