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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Andrea Arcangeli writes:
 > Tell me a best way to get rid of those bugs all together if you can.

Please give me a test case that triggers the bug on sparc64
and I will promptly work on a fix, ok?

I mean a test case you _actually_ trigger, not some fantasy case.

In theory it can happen, but nobody is showing me that it actually
does ever happen.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com