From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752226AbZBOKyr (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:54:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751966AbZBOKyi (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:54:38 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:47113 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751638AbZBOKyg (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:54:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:54:08 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Christian Kujau Cc: Damien Wyart , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List Subject: Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with 2.6.29-rc2-git1 Message-ID: <20090215105408.GA31351@elte.hu> References: <20090215080941.GA2295@localhost.localdomain> <20090215090026.GA31147@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Christian Kujau wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/tip.git/tracing-quickstart.txt > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README > > Hm, both URLs gave me a 404, .../tip.git/ seems empty - could these > documents find a nice place under Documentation/ perhaps? Hm, there's a people.redhat.com outage today - find below that file in plaintext too. Ingo # --------------{ tip.git instructions }----------> mkdir linux.trees.git || exit -1 cd linux.trees.git git init # Add Linus's tree as a remote git remote add linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git # Add the -tip tree as a remote git remote add tip git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git # # With that setup, just run the following to get any changes you # don't have. It will also notice any new branches Ingo/Linus # add to their repo. Look in .git/config afterwards, the format # to add new remotes is easy to figure out. # # This will take a lot of time initially (it downloads the ~150MB # repository), but will be much faster subsequently as it only # does delta updates. Note that it may warn you about no common # commits but you can ignore that: # git remote update # # Check out the latest -tip branch to a local branch # in this example, we create a branch called 'tip-latest' # You can pick whatever name suits you. # git checkout -b tip-latest tip/master # # if you need to do bisection of the -tip tree, then do: # (but first check that linus/master is indeed a 'good' kernel :-) # git bisect start git bisect good linus/master git bisect bad tip/master # # If you want to help out with cleanups, and want to pick some # low hanging fruits, do this: # wget http://redhat.com/~mingo/tip.git/code-quality chmod +x code-quality ./code-quality `find kernel/ -name '*.c'` | tee quality.txt # # Pick the file that looks most interesting to you: # sort -n -k 4 quality.txt # # and if you do some work based on tip.git, in particular when # you change x86 specific bits, feel free to talk to the # maintainers about it (especially if you are about to # do some bigger chunk of work and think that you'd like to # ask whether it makes sense or whether anyone else is working # on it): # # X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT) # P: Thomas Gleixner # M: tglx@linutronix.de # P: Ingo Molnar # M: mingo@redhat.com # P: H. Peter Anvin # M: hpa@zytor.com # # And this is the mailing list to send patches to: # # L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org # # When sending arch/x86 patches, please try to use the following # subject line format (sample): # # Subject: [patch] x86: fix typo in ... #