Hi David, I'm not sure if this is a good bisect because the errors are noisy, however it's good to inform you of this possibility. First bad commit may be a3483353c ("drm: check for !kdev in drm_unplug_minor()") =================================================== PARENT COMMIT NOT CLEAN. LOOK OUT FOR WRONG BISECT! =================================================== +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ | | 0846c728e20a | efb753b8e013 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ | boot_successes | 183 | 18 | | boot_failures | 162 | 11 | | BUG:kernel_early_hang_without_any_printk_output | 1 | | | BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel | 161 | 3 | | BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel_NULL_pointer_dereferenceNULL_pointer_dereference_at | 161 | | | Oops | 161 | 3 | | Oops:SMP_SMP_DEBUG_PAGEALLOCDEBUG_PAGEALLOC | 161 | 3 | | EIP_is_at_drm_unplug_minor | 161 | | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 161 | 2 | | BUG:spinlock_lockup_suspected_on_CPU | 0 | 3 | | INFO:NMI_handler(arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler)took_too_long_to_run:msecs | 0 | 1 | | BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel_paging_requestpaging_request_at | 0 | 3 | | BUG:Bad_page_state_in_process | 0 | 1 | | BUG:kernel_test_hang | 0 | 4 | | EIP_is_at_default_send_IPI_mask_logical | 0 | 3 | | EIP_is_at_slob_free | 0 | 3 | | EIP_is_at_drm_debugfs_cleanup | 0 | 1 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception_in_interrupt | 0 | 1 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ [ 12.071139] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [ 12.071139] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7, irq 7 [ [PCSPPPCSPP,TRISTATE,TRISTATE] ] [ 12.115335] BUG: spinlock lockup suspected on CPU#0, swapper/0/1 git bisect start 26b265cd29dde56bf0901c421eabc7ae815f38c4 v3.12 -- git bisect good 7e1a1e9378018aeea2c7e8a3dd2ceb1db1523b0b # 23:43 115+ 1 Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-v3.13-rc1' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs git bisect bad 13509c3a9d20a9df93dc9b944e8bd20fe1b454a7 # 23:58 3- 2 Merge branch 'i2c/for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux git bisect bad 4937e2a6f939a41bf811378e80d71f68aa0950c6 # 00:16 4- 4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input git bisect good 049ffa8ab33a63b3bff672d1a0ee6a35ad253fe8 # 01:04 115+ 46 Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux git bisect good 98d38dd2ee30322fc9934d7490be3c5bee80950e # 01:52 115+ 51 Merge tag 'for-3.13' of git://git.openrisc.net/~jonas/linux git bisect bad f412f2c60b480fa5140a4b4cb321cd48c64e1812 # 02:06 0- 1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block git bisect good 6c0514ddd973ff13c3d2b2e7ac1422c982afb8eb # 02:41 115+ 43 Merge tag 'blackfin-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/realmz6/blackfin-linux git bisect bad cd1177f25069cb494680eedd718e7c6d8fd85d10 # 02:52 9- 4 Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux git bisect bad a3483353ca4e6dbeef2ed62ebed01af109b5b27a # 03:23 9- 2 drm: check for !kdev in drm_unplug_minor() # first bad commit: [a3483353ca4e6dbeef2ed62ebed01af109b5b27a] drm: check for !kdev in drm_unplug_minor() git bisect good 0846c728e20a0cd1e43fb75a3015f3b176a26466 # 06:05 345+ 162 Merge branch 'drm-nouveau-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6 into drm-next git bisect bad efb753b8e0136fe66b507e8e1e42b5a2df7ba44d # 06:05 0- 11 crypto: ixp4xx - Fix kernel compile error git bisect good cf0c16eccacc7eaba6e710e553a7b5c0c39c6d70 # 09:20 345+ 178 Revert "drm: check for !kdev in drm_unplug_minor()" git bisect good 228fdc083b017eaf90e578fa86fb1ecfd5ffae87 # 11:23 345+ 3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net git bisect good 1955a14a5ba6e3c3b11117812d11dc550ccc37ae # 12:58 345+ 0 Add linux-next specific files for 20140110 Thanks, Fengguang