Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:39:13PM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2005 10:59 pm, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> > Hi Andrew and Andi
> > 
> > I've been trying to track dow an bug that causes my userspace applications to 
> > randomly segfault. I've tracked it down to 2.6.11-mm4 (I'm not sure about mm[1-3]).  
> > The bug does not exist in the 2.6.11 kernel. The 2.6.12-rc1 kernel has the bug. The bug 
> > is easly triggered by compiling KDE or the kernel using make -j4
> > 
> 
> I've just tested 2.6.11-mm1 it has that bug as well. So the bug was introduced on that kernel.

Can you please get the individual patches from -mm1 and test them?
I would just unapply the various x86-64 patches and do a binary search.

Thanks,

-Andi
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