Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:59:21PM +0200, 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
> 
> The following kernels also have the bug: 2.6.12rc1-mm4, 2.6.12rc3-mm2,  2.6.12rc3-mm3
> 2.6.12rc4-mm2, 2.6.12rc6-mm1 and 2.6.12rc6. I'm busy downloading 2.6.11-mm[1-3] to see
> when it was introduced, because it seems to have been merged to mailine from the -mm series.

Can you track it down to an individual patch or a list of patches? 

I would stay on mainline if you can reproduce it there 
since it has less "noise" than -mm. 

-Andi
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