Hi Peter,
After running the test with the patch you provided, i observed an oops message
which was at the top of the these soft lockup message and the oops is the same as
the oops reported at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/24/107.
And when i applied the patch for the oops proposed at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/57 the oops as well as the soft lockup's are not seen.
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Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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