From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [ARM] Regression somewhere between 2.6.19 and 2.6.19-rc1
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:50:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070102165004.GC12902@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070102163923.GB12902@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:39:23PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> I'm seeing utterly random behaviour from kernels on ARM SMP hardware
> built after 2.6.19. I won't bother trying to paste the kernel output;
> sometimes the kernel locks solid (no IRQs, no output to say what's wrong).
> Other times I get the first line of an oops repeating but with random
> addresses. Othertimes the oops doesn't complete.
>
> 2.6.19 runs fine.
>..
> How do I tell git bisect "I can't test this, this is neither good nor bad,
> please choose another to try" ? Or is git bisect hopeless given the large
> amount of unbuildable commits thanks to our weekly merges?
Don't worry - viro suggested changing the problematical two strings, which
allowed me to test that commit.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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2007-01-02 16:39 [ARM] Regression somewhere between 2.6.19 and 2.6.19-rc1 Russell King
2007-01-02 16:50 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-01-02 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
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