Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752778Ab2FEP3P (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:29:15 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:52201 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751488Ab2FEP3O (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:29:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4FCE25C6.2080601@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:29:10 -0600 From: David Ahern User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian , LKML , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: git bisect and perf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 20 I am trying find out when (ie. which commit) the pebs feature actually started working on a westmere system and hitting a problem with git-bisect: # git bisect start arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event* # git bisect bad v2.6.35 # git bisect good v2.6.38 Some good revs are not ancestor of the bad rev. git bisect cannot work properly in this case. Maybe you mistake good and bad revs? Any ideas on why git bisect would not work? David -- 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/