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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 14:50 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> > thanks for the patch! I'll put this on our testing boxes...
> 
> With a patch that frobs the starting value close to overflowing I hope,
> otherwise we'll not hear from you in like 7 months ;-)
> 
> > Are You going to push this upstream so we can ask Greg to push this to
> > -stable? 
> 
> Yeah, I think we want to commit this with a -stable tag, Ingo?

yeah - and we also want a Reported-by tag and an explanation of how 
it can crash and why it matters in practice. I can then stick it into 
the urgent branch for Linus. (probably will only hit upstream in the 
merge window though.)

Thanks,

	Ingo