Re: stable? quality assurance?

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed Aug 04 2010 - 23:27:39 EST


On 07/15/2010 11:59 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 07:58:42PM +0400, William Pitcock wrote:
2.6.32.16 (possibly 2.6.32.15) has a regression where it is unusable
as a Xen domU. I would say 2.6.32.12 is the best choice since who knows
what other regressions there are in .16.
Did you happen to tell the stable maintainer about this and do a simple
'git bisect' to find the offending patch so that it can be resolved?

If it is compiled on Debian then its probably that cmpxchg memory argument bug which hits in pvclock.c.

J
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