Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3)

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu Jan 11 2007 - 05:54:18 EST


On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:21:23AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > > >Subject : BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172 set_dentry_child_flags()
> > > >References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7785
> > > >Submitter : Cijoml Cijomlovic Cijomlov <cijoml@xxxxxxxx>
> > > >Handled-By : John McCutchan <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >Status : problem is being debugged
> > > I'm not sure that this is actually a regression for 2.6.20-rc.
> > The submitter says it doesn't occur in 2.6.19.
>
> Any chance that the submitter could do git bisect? (added to CC). From the
> bugzilla entry it seems to be well reproducible for him.

That's a possible but time intensive approach for this kind of bug.

I'd expect bisecting such an "at least 1 times a day" bug to take at
about one month.

And that's not a high number, that's a realistic estimate considering
that you have to test a dozen kernels and verifying that a kernel is
good takes 2-3 days.

> Jiri Kosina

cu
Adrian

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