linux-kernel - Re: stable? quality assurance?

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Date:	Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:27:32 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	William Pitcock <nenolod@...eferenced.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stable? quality assurance?

  On 07/15/2010 11:59 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 07:58:42PM +0400, William Pitcock wrote:
>> 2.6.32.16 (possibly 2.6.32.15) has a regression where it is unusable
>> as a Xen domU.  I would say 2.6.32.12 is the best choice since who knows
>> what other regressions there are in .16.
> Did you happen to tell the stable maintainer about this and do a simple
> 'git bisect' to find the offending patch so that it can be resolved?

If it is compiled on Debian then its probably that cmpxchg memory 
argument bug which hits in pvclock.c.

     J
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