Re: bisect results of MSI-X related panic (help!)

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Sep 14 2009 - 05:44:28 EST


Tejun Heo wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
>> Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
>>> I've bisected, here is my bisect log, problem is that the commit
>>> identified is a merge commit, and *I don't know what to revert to test*.
>>> It appears the parent of the merge:
>>> 6e15cf04860074ad032e88c306bea656bbdd0f22 is marked good, but looks to be
>>> in a possibly related area to the panic.
>> That merge does contain quite a few merge fixups, so it's quite possible
>> one of them is the cause of the failure.
>> Maybe the simplest way to verify that is to compile both parents of the
>> merge to doublecheck that they work OK. Then, if a compile of the merge
>> itself is bad, the problem really is in the merge commit itself.
>>
>> That commit is the "percpu" merge, so I've added Tejun (author of most of
>> that branch) and Ingo (merger) in CC.
>
> Sorry, the oops doesn't ring a bell, well, not yet at least. It would
> be great if the bisection can be narrowed down more.

Also, building w/ debug option on, capturing more oops traces and
pasting gdb output of l *<oops address> might shed some more light.

Thanks.

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tejun
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