Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:52:44 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 |
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On 12/11/2014 04:49 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: >> > >> > So either one of those 'good's actually wasn't, or I'm just cursed. > Even if there was a good that wasn't, that last "bad" (6f929b4e5a02) > is already sufficient just on its own to say that likely v3.16 already > had the problem. > > Just do > > gitk v3.16..6f929b4e5a02 > > and cry. > > (or "git diff --stat -M v3.16...6f929b4e5a02" to see what that commit > brought in from the common ancestor). > > So I'd call that bisect a failure, and your "v3.16 is fine" is > actually suspect after all. Which *might* mean that it's some hardware > issue after all. Or there are multiple different problems, and while > v3.16 was fine, the problem was introduced earlier (in the common > ancestor of that staging tree), then fixed for 3.16, and then > re-introduced later again.
Is it possible that Dave and myself were seeing the same problem after all?
I'll go bisect it even further back...
Thanks, Sasha
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