Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754518AbZFXNIU (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:08:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751185AbZFXNIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:08:10 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43826 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751131AbZFXNIJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:08:09 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20090624023251.GA16483@localhost> References: <20090624023251.GA16483@localhost> <20090620043303.GA19855@localhost> <32411.1245336412@redhat.com> <20090517022327.280096109@intel.com> <2015.1245341938@redhat.com> <20090618095729.d2f27896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <7561.1245768237@redhat.com> To: Wu Fengguang , "riel@redhat.com" Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , LKML , Christoph Lameter , KOSAKI Motohiro , "hannes@cmpxchg.org" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "tytso@mit.edu" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "elladan@eskimo.com" , "npiggin@suse.de" , "minchan.kim@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:07:19 +0100 Message-ID: <3901.1245848839@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1613 Lines: 34 Okay, I've bisected it down to a narrow range of 60 commits, which include various mm patches from Fengguang and Rik. bad: b8d9a86590fb334d28c5905a4c419ece7d08e37d good: 03347e2592078a90df818670fddf97a33eec70fb The bad one is definitely bad; the good one is very probably good (the V4L commit list branched from there, and survived about 40 iterations of LTP without coughing up an OOM). I've attached my bisection log to this point, and I'm continuing trying to narrow it down. git bisect visualise produces a nice linear list of commits between the bounds it's currently working. Is there any way to produce that as a text dump? David --- git bisect start # bad: [c868d550115b9ccc0027c67265b9520790f05601] mm: Move pgtable_cache_init() earlier git bisect bad c868d550115b9ccc0027c67265b9520790f05601 # good: [300df7dc89cc276377fc020704e34875d5c473b6] Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 git bisect good 300df7dc89cc276377fc020704e34875d5c473b6 # good: [e1f5b94fd0c93c3e27ede88b7ab652d086dc960f] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 git bisect good e1f5b94fd0c93c3e27ede88b7ab652d086dc960f # bad: [b8d9a86590fb334d28c5905a4c419ece7d08e37d] Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c intialize the variable before using it git bisect bad b8d9a86590fb334d28c5905a4c419ece7d08e37d -- 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/