linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:42:47 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	sachinp@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:21:41PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:16:21PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:12 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>> > > Ok, I just wanted to debug this on s390. But... the bug seems to have
>> > > disappeared.
>> > > I pulled in
>> > >
>> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git slqb/core
>> > >
>> > > and tried defconfig (+SLQB) as well as allyesconfig (+SLQB). Both started and
>> > > didn't show the crash-before-console-is-active which went away when switching
>> > > to a different allocator.
>> > > So the s390 restriction seems to be resolved. Don't know why...
>> >
>> > IIRC, this is the only bug fix that was merged after your report:
>> >
>> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff61c4950125b09b5e5a83d48a6c81827e9d67ab
>>
>> Still works even if I revert that patch. Probably something else interfered.
>
> Nasty. I don't suppose it would be too much work to try bisecting it?
> Unfortunately with this kind of thing, bisecting doesn't always point
> to anything meaningful anyway :(

Bisecting won't work here because I rebased the branch to fix merge
conflicts and move the Kconfig and Makefile changes at the end of the
series to make sure SLQB won't break "git bisect". Blah, I guess I
shouldn't have do that. :-(

                        Pekka
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