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