Better organize the admin guide documentation by moving the bug bisect to a separate file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst | 74 ----------------------------- Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 1 + 3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5682d742017c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +Bisecting a bug ++++++++++++++++ + +Last updated: 28 October 2016 + +Introduction +============ + +Always try the latest kernel from kernel.org and build from source. If you are +not confident in doing that please report the bug to your distribution vendor +instead of to a kernel developer. + +Finding bugs is not always easy. Have a go though. If you can't find it don't +give up. Report as much as you have found to the relevant maintainer. See +MAINTAINERS for who that is for the subsystem you have worked on. + +Before you submit a bug report read +:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst <reportingbugs>`. + +Devices not appearing +===================== + +Often this is caused by udev/systemd. Check that first before blaming it +on the kernel. + +Finding patch that caused a bug +=============================== + +Using the provided tools with ``git`` makes finding bugs easy provided the bug +is reproducible. + +Steps to do it: + +- build the Kernel from its git source +- start bisect with [#f1]_:: + + $ git bisect start + +- mark the broken changeset with:: + + $ git bisect bad [commit] + +- mark a changeset where the code is known to work with:: + + $ git bisect good [commit] + +- rebuild the Kernel and test +- interact with git bisect by using either:: + + $ git bisect good + + or:: + + $ git bisect bad + + depending if the bug happened on the changeset you're testing +- After some interactions, git bisect will give you the changeset that + likely caused the bug. + +- For example, if you know that the current version is bad, and version + 4.8 is good, you could do:: + + $ git bisect start + $ git bisect bad # Current version is bad + $ git bisect good v4.8 + + +.. [#f1] You can, optionally, provide both good and bad arguments at git + start:: + + git bisect start [BAD] [GOOD] + +For further references, please read: + +- The man page for ``git-bisect`` +- `Fighting regressions with git bisect <https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect-lk2009.html>`_ +- `Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run" <https://lwn.net/Articles/317154>`_ +- `Using Git bisect to figure out when brokenness was introduced <http://webchick.net/node/99>`_ diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst index 818b3e09267f..d245d4677ae2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst @@ -3,80 +3,6 @@ Bug hunting Last updated: 28 October 2016 -Introduction -============ - -Always try the latest kernel from kernel.org and build from source. If you are -not confident in doing that please report the bug to your distribution vendor -instead of to a kernel developer. - -Finding bugs is not always easy. Have a go though. If you can't find it don't -give up. Report as much as you have found to the relevant maintainer. See -MAINTAINERS for who that is for the subsystem you have worked on. - -Before you submit a bug report read -:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst <reportingbugs>`. - -Devices not appearing -===================== - -Often this is caused by udev/systemd. Check that first before blaming it -on the kernel. - -Finding patch that caused a bug -=============================== - -Using the provided tools with ``git`` makes finding bugs easy provided the bug -is reproducible. - -Steps to do it: - -- build the Kernel from its git source -- start bisect with [#f1]_:: - - $ git bisect start - -- mark the broken changeset with:: - - $ git bisect bad [commit] - -- mark a changeset where the code is known to work with:: - - $ git bisect good [commit] - -- rebuild the Kernel and test -- interact with git bisect by using either:: - - $ git bisect good - - or:: - - $ git bisect bad - - depending if the bug happened on the changeset you're testing -- After some interactions, git bisect will give you the changeset that - likely caused the bug. - -- For example, if you know that the current version is bad, and version - 4.8 is good, you could do:: - - $ git bisect start - $ git bisect bad # Current version is bad - $ git bisect good v4.8 - - -.. [#f1] You can, optionally, provide both good and bad arguments at git - start:: - - git bisect start [BAD] [GOOD] - -For further references, please read: - -- The man page for ``git-bisect`` -- `Fighting regressions with git bisect <https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect-lk2009.html>`_ -- `Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run" <https://lwn.net/Articles/317154>`_ -- `Using Git bisect to figure out when brokenness was introduced <http://webchick.net/node/99>`_ - Fixing the bug ============== diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst index 368845e9900a..98e60f678352 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ problems and bugs in particular. reporting-bugs security-bugs bug-hunting + bug-bisect oops-tracing ramoops dynamic-debug-howto -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
