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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Bad linux-next merge? (was Re: [6.4.0-rc7-next-20230620] Boot failure on IBM Power LPAR)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:54:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzvvodwt.fsf@mail.lhotse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568F6E65-DBDF-43F2-8B3E-E783AE5A2B6C@linux.ibm.com>

Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com> writes:
>>> The problem was introduced in 6.4.0-rc7-next-20230619. I tried git bisect, but unsure of the
>>> result reported by it. Bisect points to following patch
>>> 
>>> # git bisect bad
>>> 70c94cc2eefd4f98d222834cbe7512804977c2d4 is the first bad commit
>>> commit 70c94cc2eefd4f98d222834cbe7512804977c2d4
>>> Merge: 48f5ee5c48c3 3fe08f7d5e80
>>> Author: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
>>> Date:   Tue Jun 20 09:43:25 2023 +1000
>>> 
>>>    Merge branch 'mm-everything' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
>>>         # Conflicts:
>>>         #       mm/mmap.c
>> 
>> Usually bisect pointing to a merge means something has gone wrong with
>> the bisect. It's not impossible for a merge to be the cause of a bug,
>> but IME it's rare.
>
> I have tried the bisect 3 times and the result was same. It always
> points to this merge commit.
>
> Is there anything else I can try to help debug this issue?

Looks like it's been reported, debugged and fixed over here:

  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20230619204309.GA13937@willie-the-truck/

So it should be resolved in today/tomorrow's linux-next hopefully.

cheers


      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-22 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-20 12:11 [6.4.0-rc7-next-20230620] Boot failure on IBM Power LPAR Sachin Sant
2023-06-20 19:34 ` Yu Zhao
2023-06-21  3:52 ` Michael Ellerman
2023-06-22  8:01   ` Sachin Sant
2023-06-22 12:54     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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