Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758318AbZIQMmr (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:42:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754281AbZIQMmq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:42:46 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:38205 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754191AbZIQMmp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:42:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=Z4S0nFr5JHuT+iDfoh2AEB10HhyMnpR2mOnW3kc2Rxr6l9j9eHyoSxfUW+o9RydrhP lmhdZqmod0/BCcrZOpse1JcsLveV7yly9dsb9GJDDe1WE6/oAifT4xJ2MtjpaTg9VB1n 8drZIUfJzwTYBL74cxwrKMNQUn2JPmhMdfMu4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090917123627.GP18404@wotan.suse.de> References: <1253083059.5478.1.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090917100841.GF13002@csn.ul.ie> <1253183365.4975.20.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090917105707.GA7205@csn.ul.ie> <20090917121232.GA5041@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1253189782.4975.51.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090917122141.GB5041@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20090917123627.GP18404@wotan.suse.de> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:42:47 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 59a9c1ca5109390f Message-ID: <84144f020909170542g2377fdb1i460cb27a3b687825@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390 From: Pekka Enberg To: Nick Piggin Cc: Heiko Carstens , Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, sachinp@in.ibm.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1730 Lines: 36 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:21:41PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:16:21PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:12 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: >> > > Ok, I just wanted to debug this on s390. But... the bug seems to have >> > > disappeared. >> > > I pulled in >> > > >> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git slqb/core >> > > >> > > and tried defconfig (+SLQB) as well as allyesconfig (+SLQB). Both started and >> > > didn't show the crash-before-console-is-active which went away when switching >> > > to a different allocator. >> > > So the s390 restriction seems to be resolved. Don't know why... >> > >> > IIRC, this is the only bug fix that was merged after your report: >> > >> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff61c4950125b09b5e5a83d48a6c81827e9d67ab >> >> Still works even if I revert that patch. Probably something else interfered. > > Nasty. I don't suppose it would be too much work to try bisecting it? > Unfortunately with this kind of thing, bisecting doesn't always point > to anything meaningful anyway :( Bisecting won't work here because I rebased the branch to fix merge conflicts and move the Kconfig and Makefile changes at the end of the series to make sure SLQB won't break "git bisect". Blah, I guess I shouldn't have do that. :-( Pekka -- 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/