Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933035AbaLBVRq (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:17:46 -0500 Received: from mail-qg0-f49.google.com ([209.85.192.49]:47358 "EHLO mail-qg0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932692AbaLBVRo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:17:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141202193159.GA17595@redhat.com> References: <20141127225637.GA24019@redhat.com> <547b8a45.6e608c0a.20f9.1002@mx.google.com> <547bbe36.48548c0a.105c.779c@mx.google.com> <20141201191431.GA17385@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <547ccf74.a5198c0a.25de.26d9@mx.google.com> <20141202193159.GA17595@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:17:43 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mRTf4Y8L-gZe754A3G1mPY2hBqM Message-ID: Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 From: Linus Torvalds To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , =?UTF-8?Q?D=C3=A2niel_Fraga?= , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > I'm in the process of bisecting 3.16 -> 3.17 (currently on -rc1) > Thanksgiving kind of screwed up my flow, but 3.16 got a real > pounding for over 3 days with no problems. > I can give a !PREEMPT_RCU build a try, in case that turns out to > point to something quicker than a bisect is going to. No,. go on with the bisect. I think at this point we'll all be happier narrowing down the range of commits than anything else. The behavior Dâniel sees may be entirely unrelated anyway. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/