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Message-ID: <50EEF8A9.5070406@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:21:45 +0100 From: Adrian Byszuk <adrian.byszuk@...il.com> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org> Subject: Re: BUG: kernel panic on Dell Vostro 3560 when plugging in AC adapter On 10/01/13 15:02, Adrian Byszuk wrote: > On 10/01/13 12:35, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:59:48AM +0100, Adrian Byszuk wrote: >>> I think I won't get the answer this way. Bisecting between >>> 3.7 and 3.8-rc2 (from linus tree) led me to commit >>> 63e1ed2364050073770c085021377d7764969b85 titled "Update vt8500 PWM >>> driver support", which I think is rather nonsense. Also, depending on >>> bisected version, sometimes I got kernel panic, but sometimes (more >>> often) whole system would just freeze completely. >>> >>> Any other way diagnose this bug? >> >> Hmm, bisection can sometimes lead us in the fields, nasty. >> >> Well, you could try bisecting the major releases in between. I.e., test >> 3.8-rc1, and then test vanilla 3.7. >> >> For example, if you still trigger it with -rc1, then no need to bisect >> the -rc2..-rc1 range. If you still trigger it with 3.7 then not good - >> in that case you'd need to go further back in time. >> >> The best would be if you don't trigger it with 3.7 but trigger it with >> 3.7.1 :) Then it is easy. > > Life isn't easy :-) with 3.7 I can trigger it too, but I can't trigger > it with 3.8-rc1, so the fix lies somewhere between 3.7.1..3.8-rc1. > I'll try bisecting it again. Aaaand failure again! I haven't finished bisecting yet, but as of now I have ~20 commits left: all related to 'mtd' - propably not a source of troubles too. Any other way to diagnose this bug? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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