> thanks Roland for the detailed analysis. I've queued up the patch below 
quoted text
> in the x86 tree. I suspect we can wait with this for v2.6.25, due to 
> this being long-standing behavior of Linux? Thus we could observe the 
> effects of this patch for a longer time.

It's certainly nothing new.  The failure mode of concern is only for a
buggy program to fail to crash as quickly and gracefully as it might.


Thanks,
Roland
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