From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755376AbXABQuP (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:50:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755374AbXABQuP (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:50:15 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:3018 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755376AbXABQuN (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:50:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:50:04 +0000 From: Russell King To: Linux Kernel List , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [ARM] Regression somewhere between 2.6.19 and 2.6.19-rc1 Message-ID: <20070102165004.GC12902@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel List , Linus Torvalds References: <20070102163923.GB12902@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070102163923.GB12902@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: