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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:13:28 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Dean Nelson <dcn@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, jes@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] export __put_task_struct for XPMEM

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:59:33AM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> This patch exports __put_task_struct as it is needed by XPMEM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@....com>
> 
> ---
> 
> One struct file_operations registered by XPMEM, xpmem_open(), calls
> 'get_task_struct(current->group_leader)' and another, xpmem_flush(), calls
> 'put_task_struct(tg->group_leader)'.

Does it?  Well, then open the file in question and start doing close(dup(fd))
in a loop.  Won't take long for an oops...
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