Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761610AbXFRA12 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:27:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756076AbXFRA1V (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:27:21 -0400 Received: from smtp.ocgnet.org ([64.20.243.3]:46708 "EHLO smtp.ocgnet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754943AbXFRA1U (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:27:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:25:48 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Carlo Wood , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric@anholt.net, zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc5 regression Message-ID: <20070618002548.GC27460@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Carlo Wood , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric@anholt.net, zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org References: <20070617182254.GA17595@alinoe.com> <20070617195805.GA6125@alinoe.com> <20070617214905.GA6207@alinoe.com> <20070617231858.GB27460@linux-sh.org> <20070618001049.GB1375@alinoe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070618001049.GB1375@alinoe.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1309 Lines: 28 On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:10:49AM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:18:58AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > > The obvious question of course is whether actually reverting this > > changeset fixes your problem? I would be very surprised if it did. > > Having a git commit Id, like d09c6b809432668371b5de9102f4f9aa6a7c79cc, > how can I create a .diff file from that? > $ git show d09c6b809432668371b5de9102f4f9aa6a7c79cc | patch -p1 -R ... build and test ... $ git show d09c6b809432668371b5de9102f4f9aa6a7c79cc | patch -p1 ... back to original (or git checkout-index -f mm/page_alloc.c) ... if you just want to test that single change. > I think git bisect made an error... as you can see for yourself > with the list of tested git Id's that I gave - it didn't test > both sides of that patch imho. If you tell me how to extract a patch > then I'll manually unapply it to some failing kernel revisions and > see if that makes a difference. > Assuming that reverting that patch makes no difference, can you provide the output of 'git bisect log'? - 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/