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on 13/12/2012 22:17 Attilio Rao said the following:
> Right, but as I said, for the time being we can at least have a
> correct panic() semantic and take the right time to fix the
> generic_stop_cpus() and then absorb also the panic() fix into it.
> Right now the mechanism is still broken in panic and it can be fixed
> with a very easy fix, so we should just do it.
> This will also help vendors like Sandvine which may have hit just this bug too.


Perhaps I got confused...
Could you please re-explain to me your suggestion to fix panic(9)?
Because I thought that it would require exactly the same steps as fixing
generic_stop_cpus().  Sorry about this.

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Andriy Gapon