Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:36:09 +0100 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: user-space command "ipcs" seems broken on 2.6.18.1 |
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On 30/10/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/10/06, Metathronius Galabant <m.galabant@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Can you identify the latest kernel where it works OK? > > > > I can't reproduce that behaviour on another SMP machine with the same > > kernel-config for 2.6.18.1 (only storage and network device drivers > > differ). > > The affected one is a production machine I can't use to test, and > > furthermore the only one I've got of that series. > > > Ok, can you then at least tell us what the latest kernel you have used > that was OK was? > Just to try and narrow things down a bit. > > > Has to wait until the weekend. Any remote clue so I know where to look? > > Well, with a simple good/bad test case like you have, the obvious > thing to do would be to find a resonably new kernel that's good and > one that's bad and then do a git bisection search to find the exact > commit that broke things for you. Short of that, narrowing it down to > a released version, a -rc or -git snapshot is also good. > > You could also start browsing through changelogs looking for changes > to IPC and then try revert patches that look likely. But git bisect > is probably a lot easier. > Ohh and btw, testing the latest -rc (and/or -git snapshot) kernel is also useful, to see if the bug has already been fixed in what is to become 2.6.19 eventually.
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