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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: ipvs deadlock fix
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I did the following two patches ages ago and haven't really been happy with
the cancel_rearming_delayed_work() thing because it feels livelocky.  

But ipvs does lock up nice and tight so unless there are better ideas...