From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753855AbZIIRfi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:35:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753530AbZIIRfh (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:35:37 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:39456 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753447AbZIIRfg (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:35:36 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Beth Kon , rostedt@goodmis.org, avi@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Wierdness - linux-next KVM patch breaks Dell Latitude D820, KVM not in kernel In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:41:28 EDT." <22130.1252438888@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <3850.1252332427@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <4AA65CFE.50402@us.ibm.com> <22130.1252438888@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1252517689_3993P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:34:50 -0400 Message-ID: <21211.1252517690@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1252517689_3993P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:41:28 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said: > Yeah, I was quite confused by the bisect results as well, I may end up > re-doing it just to make sure I didn't screw something up along the way (since > I started it with -rc7/HEAD as the good/bad, but most of the resulting > kernels reported a pre-rc7 release (a 2.6.28 at one point, IIRC, and it > finished at 31-rc2. I've become convinced that Something Really Bad happened to the KVM tree in linux-next on its way to my laptop - after 2 bisects, it reported I had some 2,000 commits left to check. So I ran 'git bisect visualize' to sanity check. And *every single one* of those 4,000 commits between 'good' and 'bad' was a KVM commit, stretching all the way back to 2007. Unless that's an artifact of the way linux-next is built, I would have expected only "new-ish" commits to be in the bisect window, and not just out of one tree... So I ended up doing a 'WTF?', an 'rm -r', and am cloning over today's linux-next and will see if that brings me any better joy. --==_Exmh_1252517689_3993P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFKp+c5cC3lWbTT17ARAqnbAKDYmiK0kIdJ1TF4JsKXOTdzrz+1ygCg6Q8k wDbwLoFNPavRZXenal8Flfw= =ZrGG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1252517689_3993P--