linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:30:53 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/
> - Somebody broke it on my powerpc G5, but I didn't have time to do yet
>   another bisection yet.
> - There's a lengthy patch series here from Nick which attempts to address
>   the longstanding pagefault-vs-buffered-write deadlock.
>   A great shower of filesystems were broken and have been disabled with
>   CONFIG_BROKEN.  This includes reiser4.
> - Complex patches which eliminate the kernel's fixed size limit on the
>   command-line length.  These break nommu builds.

Someone remind me what the pagefault vs. buffered write deadlock is.

Something brings down i386/qemu before even earlyprintk can handle.

Bisection has narrowed it down to patch 1140 after everything got
renumbered by peterz' fix for mm-variable-length-argument-support.patch,
namely containersv10-make-cpusets-a-client-of-containers.patch


-- wli

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