linux-kernel - Re: [5/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:02:28 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Emil Karlson <jkarlson@...hut.fi>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...lanox.co.il>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@....de>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [5/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:38 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I'm not done with my bisection, but e9e2cdb4 is among the 28 commits left, 
> > so I'm pretty sure I'm hitting the same bug. I'll do a few more bootups to 
> > be 100% sure.
> 
> Ok, it's in the last six candidates, so yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'll do a 
> final compile/boot cycle to verify, but if you don't hear from me, you can 
> pretty much assume that was it.
> 
> Thomas, Ingo, I'd _really_ like to get -rc3 out there, but I'd like to cut 
> down the regression list a bit, and a number of them were about resume 
> from RAM, and this is probably it. So I'd *really* like to get this one 
> nailed, especially since the causing commit is known. Can you look at it 
> as a high-priority thing, please?

Sure. I fought it all day. Can you please test the patch I sent a couple
of minutes ago ? Would be great to have your feedback tomorrow morning. 

We need to fix that ACPI problem (acpi_processor_start is not called
when CPU#1 is resumed) as well. I look into this tomorrow unless Len
beats me.

	tglx


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