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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:45:50 +0530

> Are you running with preemption enabled ? If so, fyi, I had sent
> out a patch earlier that fixes locking for preemption.
> Also, what triggers this in your machine ? I can try to reproduce
> this albeit on a non-sparc64 box.

Dipankar, don't spend too much effort trying to reproduce my
problem.  I'm back to thinking I might have some kind of sparc64
specific bug on my hands.

Thanks for all of your help.