Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:33:11 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 + all hotfixes -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected |
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On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:19:51 +0200 Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> One tool to make this a little bit easier is quilt. This should be > available as a package for most distributions. I haven't tried it myself > yet, but akpm's "broken-out" patch distribution can be manipulated by > quilt.
Each -mm announcement contains the following text:
:- If you hit a bug in -mm and it is not obvious which patch caused it, it is : most valuable if you can perform a bisection search to identify which patch : introduced the bug. Instructions for this process are at : : http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt : : But beware that this process takes some time (around ten rebuilds and : reboots), so consider reporting the bug first and if we cannot immediately : identify the faulty patch, then perform the bisection search. :
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