Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755286AbYLBStW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:49:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753582AbYLBStN (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:49:13 -0500 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.26]:56103 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898AbYLBStM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:49:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XeW3TMMGubfDv9CarB8Z2Rpm1lvvuXJMpmahnFauS9RMZM+USM9K2dva64ecrKar4d GH15+tSd90kPqZWHtqpoIIpEE595rQJFpRuiEgzrOmGDjmfFElyj5wAQyCJvBUrqE2/+ 5QyU+xOqLtpbg13z1aGtyyTFFLClWoQYd4jws= Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:49:07 +0100 From: Alejandro Riveira =?UTF-8?B?RmVybsOhbmRleg==?= To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dmitry Baryshkov , Alistair John Strachan , "Michael B. Trausch" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7 Message-ID: <20081202194907.4eaffc0a@varda> In-Reply-To: References: <20081202131442.42e7df48@varda> <20081202165637.09984819@varda> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Content-Length: 3630 Lines: 83 El Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:13:47 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds escribió: > > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: [ ... ] > > Since you are apparently a git user, and 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 was > fine, there's really only 270 commits in between that and 2.6.28-rc7. Can > I ask you to bisect for a couple of runs, which would cut it down to a > handful? (Ie you don't even need to do a full bisect, although that should > really only require about 8 reboots). > > Just do > > git bisect start > git bisect bad v2.6.27 v2.6.28-rc7 <<< > git bisect good v2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 > > and off you go. That would help enormously. > > There are very few console-related changes in that range, and the most > notably one is actually radeon-specific so it shouldn't be an issue for > you. I'd _suspect_ bca404afdc5206c3bb30168315ee8a98a579ec65 ("fbdev: fix > FB console blanking"), but quite frankly, it could be something random > that just interacted badly. A bisection would narrow things down. Here you go [alex@varda:kernel/linux-2.6]$ git bisect bad 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d is first bad commit commit 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d Author: Al Viro Date: Sat Nov 22 17:33:24 2008 +0000 meminit section warnings Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds :040000 040000 87b37c3148067870af9fd13e661e0dc96ddfb99c b971fe6efa622c1f90ef7da702997a04fc83418d M include :040000 040000 6dc7c5088a129e3432c31aadce83e98c2e07916e ae9694713cee3ff50411102b08fb4f33f881f3c4 M mm [alex@varda:kernel/linux-2.6]$ git bisect log git bisect start # bad: [061e41fdb5047b1fb161e89664057835935ca1d2] Linux 2.6.28-rc7 git bisect bad 061e41fdb5047b1fb161e89664057835935ca1d2 # good: [ed313489badef16d700f5a3be50e8fd8f8294bc8] Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm git bisect good ed313489badef16d700f5a3be50e8fd8f8294bc8 # bad: [9bd062d9eaf9e790330f37d9f4518e1b95131f6c] Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip git bisect bad 9bd062d9eaf9e790330f37d9f4518e1b95131f6c # bad: [499c59c42967329d39481314a839d7669f5e1506] MN10300: Tighten up the code using case ranges git bisect bad 499c59c42967329d39481314a839d7669f5e1506 # bad: [211f05a034f49586fdd071abd174853217ec29ee] input: replace spin_lock_bh with spin_lock_irqsave in ml_ff_playback git bisect bad 211f05a034f49586fdd071abd174853217ec29ee # bad: [1c4567aeed84a2746d78d4c1fe092222a559d43f] m32r: section noise in head.S git bisect bad 1c4567aeed84a2746d78d4c1fe092222a559d43f # bad: [d16d7667f9c211e8d9b7e2365cc3d3a83fc6a8e2] icside section warnings git bisect bad d16d7667f9c211e8d9b7e2365cc3d3a83fc6a8e2 # bad: [409832f5484cd1e2d8812c3236dffb33d01c359b] sparc32 cpuinit flase positives git bisect bad 409832f5484cd1e2d8812c3236dffb33d01c359b # bad: [7d6a8a1c487422b772201927c454930377d8cf7e] false __cpuinit positives on alpha git bisect bad 7d6a8a1c487422b772201927c454930377d8cf7e # bad: [31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d] meminit section warnings git bisect bad 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d That's what i got after the bisection dunno if that helps... > > 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/