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Message-Id: <20120323122244.132198e3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:22:44 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Subject: Re: Boot failure with next-20120208

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:41 -0800
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

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> > The bug looks pretty generic, nothing very PPC-specific there.  It 
> > might affect other architectures - we won't know until we find out
> > wht caused it.
> 
> well one half of the race looks pretty generic...
> ..... doesn't mean the other half of the race is though....
> 
> 
> > 
> > Ho hum, I suppose I should pull the patch out of linux-next, to
> > avoid disrupting other testing.  This means it's going to be hard
> > to get the bug fixed.
> 
> it means losing this one big PPC machine indeed.... until they hit
> that same race some other way with regular real cpu hotplug ;-(

So we're kinda stuck with this.  As I can't merge it, I guess I'll make
smp-start-up-non-boot-cpus-asynchronously.patch disappear.
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