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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64
Date: 13 Jun 2005 23:23:14 +0200
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:23:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050613212314.GC86745@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506132259.22151.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:59:21PM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> Hi Andrew and Andi
> 
> I've been trying to track dow an bug that causes my userspace applications to 
> randomly segfault. I've tracked it down to 2.6.11-mm4 (I'm not sure about mm[1-3]).  
> The bug does not exist in the 2.6.11 kernel. The 2.6.12-rc1 kernel has the bug. The bug 
> is easly triggered by compiling KDE or the kernel using make -j4
> 
> The following kernels also have the bug: 2.6.12rc1-mm4, 2.6.12rc3-mm2,  2.6.12rc3-mm3
> 2.6.12rc4-mm2, 2.6.12rc6-mm1 and 2.6.12rc6. I'm busy downloading 2.6.11-mm[1-3] to see
> when it was introduced, because it seems to have been merged to mailine from the -mm series.

Can you track it down to an individual patch or a list of patches? 

I would stay on mainline if you can reproduce it there 
since it has less "noise" than -mm. 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-13 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-13 20:59 Tracking a bug in x86-64 Bongani Hlope
2005-06-13 21:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-06-13 21:39 ` Bongani Hlope
2005-06-13 21:48   ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-14 15:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-14 20:27     ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-14 21:19       ` Bongani Hlope
2005-06-15 22:20       ` Bongani Hlope
2005-06-15 22:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-15 23:39           ` Bongani Hlope
2005-06-16  0:46             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-16  2:02               ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-16  6:49                 ` Bongani Hlope
     [not found]             ` <xfkll4lfy41.fsf@uxkm53.drewag.de>
2005-07-05 19:52               ` Bongani Hlope
2005-07-05 21:12                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-06  6:34                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-06 18:20                     ` Bongani Hlope

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