From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261374AbVFMV0D (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:26:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261363AbVFMV0C (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:26:02 -0400 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:19469 "EHLO mail.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261400AbVFMVXR (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:23:17 -0400 Date: 13 Jun 2005 23:23:14 +0200 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:23:14 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Bongani Hlope Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64 Message-ID: <20050613212314.GC86745@muc.de> References: <200506132259.22151.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506132259.22151.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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