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Subject: Re: ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3)
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Eran Liberty wrote:
> mon> X
> ~ #
> 
> And took it for a test drive
> ~# while [ 1 ] ; do find / > /dev/null ; echo .  ; done
> .
> .
> .
> [ 10 min later ]
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Stable! Yeepee.

Eran, thanks a lot for testing this!

> 
> So how do we get this to be right in the first place and everywhere?
> 

This is a bug in gcc, and should be mentioned to the gcc maintainers.

-- Steve