Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 + all hotfixes -- INFO: possible recursivelocking detected

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:19:51 +0200
Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One tool to make this a little bit easier is quilt. This should be
> available as a package for most distributions. I haven't tried it myself
> yet, but akpm's "broken-out" patch distribution can be manipulated by
> quilt.

Each -mm announcement contains the following text:

:- If you hit a bug in -mm and it is not obvious which patch caused it, it is
:  most valuable if you can perform a bisection search to identify which patch
:  introduced the bug.  Instructions for this process are at
:
:        http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt
:
:  But beware that this process takes some time (around ten rebuilds and
:  reboots), so consider reporting the bug first and if we cannot immediately
:  identify the faulty patch, then perform the bisection search.
:

;)
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