Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:59:33 -0700 | Subject | Re: lockups shortly after booting in current git. |
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > I'd suggest restricting the bisect to fs/ first, and if that comes up > with something non-sensical, you can always use the good/bad data > points for a whole tree bisect. > > One commit that you might want to try testing is b43d17f31^, and see > whether that works. One potential commit that might be suspicious is > b43d17f31 given the stack trace shows one process apparently waiting > on PageWriteback.
Ahh, that does sound interesting and relevant.
Yeah, maybe the directed approach is worth it. In fact, considering the above commie, maybe it might be worth it to be *very* directed, and just test that one thing first, and maybe even skip the bisection entirely and just test a revert if it looks promising.
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