Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933171AbaLBWQb (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 17:16:31 -0500 Received: from mail-qc0-f175.google.com ([209.85.216.175]:35363 "EHLO mail-qc0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932832AbaLBWQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 17:16:29 -0500 Message-ID: <547e3a3b.a45c8c0a.655b.0cbc@mx.google.com> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 20:16:23 -0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?RMOibmllbA==?= Fraga To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 In-Reply-To: References: <20141201191431.GA17385@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <547ccf74.a5198c0a.25de.26d9@mx.google.com> <20141201230813.GE25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <547dec29.c71f8c0a.33d1.11d9@mx.google.com> <20141202170407.GK25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <547df364.236a8c0a.7b2d.ffffac67@mx.google.com> <20141202184202.GM25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <547e0947.c332e00a.23bf.ffffa8bd@mx.google.com> <20141202191143.GN25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <547e11fa.8778e00a.3439.ffffa88c@mx.google.com> <20141202205636.GQ25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <547e36d1.c54ae00a.2571.fffffd13@mx.google.com> Organization: http://www.youtube.com/DanielFragaBR X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-9-g1f531c (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:10:33 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > So it appears that you can recreate this much more quickly than DaveJ > can recreate his issue. > > The two issues may be entirely unrelated, but the it is certainly > quite possible that they have some relation to each other, and the > timing is intriguing, in that 3.17 seems to be the first kernel > release this happened in. > > So at this point I think I'd ask you to just go back to your bisection > that you apparently already started earlier. I take it 3.16 worked > fine, and that's what you used as the good base for your bisect? > > Even if it's something else than what DaveJ sees (or perhaps > *particularly* if it's something else), bisecting when it started > would be very worthwhile. > > There's 13k+ commits in between 3.16 and 3.17, so a full bisect should > be around 15 test-points. But judging by the timing of your emails, > you can generally reproduce this relatively quickly.. No problem Linus. I'll try the full bisect and I post here later with the final result. -- Linux 3.17.0-dirty: Shuffling Zombie Juror http://www.youtube.com/DanielFragaBR http://exchangewar.info Bitcoin: 12H6661yoLDUZaYPdah6urZS5WiXwTAUgL -- 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/