Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Dec 02 2014 - 16:17:49 EST


On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of bisecting 3.16 -> 3.17 (currently on -rc1)
> Thanksgiving kind of screwed up my flow, but 3.16 got a real
> pounding for over 3 days with no problems.
> I can give a !PREEMPT_RCU build a try, in case that turns out to
> point to something quicker than a bisect is going to.

No,. go on with the bisect. I think at this point we'll all be happier
narrowing down the range of commits than anything else. The behavior
DÃniel sees may be entirely unrelated anyway.

Linus
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