Re: Linux 3.4-rc4

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:03:45PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2012-04-22 22:45 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:05:54PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > > Following up on the above, the commit which introduces the panics during
> > > boot is this one:
> > >
> > > commit 8e7e70522d760c4ccd4cd370ebfa0ba69e006c6e
> > > Author: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
> > > Date:   Wed Nov 9 17:15:26 2011 -0500
> > > 
> > >     drm/ttm: isolate dma data from ttm_tt V4
> > 
> > I think
> > 
> > dea7e0a ttm: fix agp since ttm tt rework
> > 
> > fixed that.
> 
> Yes, I just tested this commit and the one immediately before it.  The
> one before crashes in the usual way, and dea7e0a boots (with the VGA
> output black as in the original report).  So this fixed the crash.
> 
> Now, returning to the original bisection, I marked that commit as "bad"
> and dropped all the earlier "skip" markings.  Git asks me to test commit
> 2a44e4997c5f ("drm/nouveau/disp: introduce proper init/fini, separate
> from create/destroy").  I cherry picked the aforementioned ttm fix:
> 
>   git cherry-pick -n dea7e0a
> 
> which succeeded.  Howevew, the resulting kernel still crashes early,
> although now in a different way.  I just can't win :(

Perhaps there is a better way. You could do this:

git log --oneline -r v3.2..v3.3 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau

to get an idea of the set of patches that went in. And use that, so

git bisect start -- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau [this should only do the bisection on those patches]

git bisect good v3.2
git bisect bad v3.3

And keep in mind the dea7e0a might need to be stuck on some of these.

This _should_ limit the bisection to just the nouveau changes, I hope.