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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:56:11 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] panic: release stale console lock to always get the
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:03:25 +0200 Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> wrote:

> > If we picked up patch "kernel: Avoid softlockups in
> > stop_machine() during heavy printing" from my series (it's completely
> > independent, I've attached the latest version), the result would look less
> > hacky to me (attached). Thoughts?
> 
> Haven't tested it but should also work...

Well, I expect we'll be merging Jan's lockup-avoidance code fairly
soon.  There's no point in solving the same problem twice.

Sp please, do take a closer look at the proposed patches and if
possible, runtime test them?