Re: Bisecting tip/auto-x86-next?

Ingo Molnar
2008-06-20T10:05:33Z

* Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to track down a problem I reported here:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/431
>
> None or you were cc'd on the original report because I had no idea of
> the source of the issue. However, I have now narrowed down the problem
> to the auto-x86-next tree. Thus I did something like:
>
> $ git bisect start
> $ git bisect good linus/master
> $ git bisect bad tip/auto-x86-next
>
> which resulted in only about 170 or so revisions to test (sounds better
> than the 3000 or so that -next wanted me to bisect through). However,
> when I tried to compile the bisect-chosen commit, I get:
>
> ------------------
>
> In file included from include/asm/thread_info.h:5,
> from include/linux/thread_info.h:47,
> from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
> from include/linux/spinlock.h:49,
> from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
> from include/linux/time.h:8,
> from include/linux/stat.h:60,
> from include/linux/module.h:10,
> from crypto/sha1_generic.c:20:
> include/asm/thread_info_64.h: In function ‘set_restore_sigmask’:
> include/asm/thread_info_64.h:189: warning: passing argument 2 of
> ‘set_bit’ from incompatible pointer type

hm, could you send me the config that triggered this?

Ingo