Hi, So 12 commits left, corresponding to this bisection log git bisect start # bad: [2d534926205db9ffce4bbbde67cb9b2cee4b835c] Merge tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 git bisect bad 2d534926205db9ffce4bbbde67cb9b2cee4b835c # good: [c3b92c8787367a8bb53d57d9789b558f1295cc96] Linux 3.1 git bisect good c3b92c8787367a8bb53d57d9789b558f1295cc96 # good: [95211279c5ad00a317c98221d7e4365e02f20836] Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) git bisect good 95211279c5ad00a317c98221d7e4365e02f20836 # good: [654443e20dfc0617231f28a07c96a979ee1a0239] Merge branch 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip git bisect good 654443e20dfc0617231f28a07c96a979ee1a0239 # bad: [f0a08fcb5972167e55faa330c4a24fbaa3328b1f] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile git bisect bad f0a08fcb5972167e55faa330c4a24fbaa3328b1f # bad: [f5e7e844a571124ffc117d4696787d6afc4fc5ae] Merge tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd git bisect bad f5e7e844a571124ffc117d4696787d6afc4fc5ae # good: [f465d145d76803fe6332092775d891c8c509aa44] Merge tag 'cleanup-initcall' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc git bisect good f465d145d76803fe6332092775d891c8c509aa44 # good: [a70f35af4e49f87ba4b6c4b30220fbb66cd74af6] Merge branch 'for-3.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block git bisect good a70f35af4e49f87ba4b6c4b30220fbb66cd74af6 # good: [a00b6151a2ae4c52576c35d3998e144a993d50b8] Merge branch 'for-3.5-take-2' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux git bisect good a00b6151a2ae4c52576c35d3998e144a993d50b8 # bad: [1193755ac6328ad240ba987e6ec41d5e8baf0680] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs git bisect bad 1193755ac6328ad240ba987e6ec41d5e8baf0680 # good: [51eab603f5c86dd1eae4c525df3e7f7eeab401d6] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs git bisect good 51eab603f5c86dd1eae4c525df3e7f7eeab401d6 # bad: [eb36c5873b96e8c7376768d3906da74aae6e3839] new helper: vm_mmap_pgoff() git bisect bad eb36c5873b96e8c7376768d3906da74aae6e3839 # skip: [eea62f831b8030b0eeea8314eed73b6132d1de26] brlocks/lglocks: turn into functions git bisect skip eea62f831b8030b0eeea8314eed73b6132d1de26 # good: [52576da3545e78c534d901a39f6f2391665c641b] hpfs: bitmaps are little-endian git bisect good 52576da3545e78c534d901a39f6f2391665c641b # bad: [3ed37648e1cbf1bbebc200c6ea8fd8daf8325843] fs: move file_remove_suid() to fs/inode.c git bisect bad 3ed37648e1cbf1bbebc200c6ea8fd8daf8325843 # bad: [962830df366b66e71849040770ae6ba55a8b4aec] brlocks/lglocks: API cleanups git bisect bad 962830df366b66e71849040770ae6ba55a8b4aec the commit left are commit 962830df366b66e71849040770ae6ba55a8b4aec Author: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 8 13:32:02 2012 +0930 brlocks/lglocks: API cleanups commit eea62f831b8030b0eeea8314eed73b6132d1de26 Author: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 8 13:32:24 2012 +0930 brlocks/lglocks: turn into functions commit 9dd6fa03ab31bb57cee4623a689d058d222fbe68 Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 8 13:29:45 2012 +0930 lglock: remove online variants of lock commit ea022dfb3c2a4680483b00eb2fecc9fc4f6091d1 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 3 10:14:29 2012 -0400 ocfs: simplify symlink handling commit 408bd629badbd4353b238ab6f58001529b274d73 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 3 09:34:20 2012 -0400 get rid of pointless allocations and copying in ecryptfs_follow_link() switch to generic_readlink(), while we are at it commit 28fe3c1963b0bafa56ec92df1987828090151d87 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 17 16:41:13 2012 -0400 hpfs: assorted endianness annotations commit 77ee26e44c28823a29bc09091950544566ae7cea Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 17 16:26:46 2012 -0400 hpfs: annotate ea commit 46287aa652fa8ea1edac41817ddc63332495ffc3 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 17 16:20:49 2012 -0400 hpfs: annotate struct hpfs_dirent commit 6ce2bbba5266c1dd5c27dd8af1887ed8ca564919 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 17 16:11:25 2012 -0400 hpfs: annotate struct anode commit 2b9f1cc29ba0e56089fe04501ec6d3b49eee3c3e Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 17 16:09:25 2012 -0400 hpfs: annotate struct fnode commit ddc19e6e04c1131a48f5b9a25aa433bbd8430cdd Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 17 15:59:35 2012 -0400 hpfs: annotate btree nodes, get rid of bitfields mess commit 39413c6046de282a92739110cfafb8f1e862680d Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 17 15:32:22 2012 -0400 hpfs: annotate struct dnode After that bisection start to be quite hard : i have compile error or unbootable kernel or unrelated OOPS For the record the BUG that i'm chasing is this one : [ 934.933390] kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2882! [ 934.933401] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 934.933412] CPU 0 [ 934.933419] Modules linked in: drbd lru_cache [ 934.933429] [ 934.933437] Pid: 4301, comm: deliver Not tainted 3.4.0+ #16 HP ProLiant ML150 G3/ML150 G3 [ 934.933461] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8117a252>] [<ffffffff8117a252>] submit_bh+0x112/0x120 [ 934.933477] RSP: 0018:ffff880076c07b38 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 934.933489] RAX: 4000000000800004 RBX: ffffea0001d82dc0 RCX: 00000003ffffffff [ 934.933504] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffea0001d82dc0 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 934.933519] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8133b0a0 [ 934.933534] R10: dead000000200200 R11: dead000000100100 R12: 0000000004cc4789 [ 934.933549] R13: 00000003ffffffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 934.933564] FS: 00007fdb397ff700(0000) GS:ffff88007fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 934.933581] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 934.933593] CR2: 00007fe29e575024 CR3: 00000000766b3000 CR4: 00000000000007f0 [ 934.933608] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 934.933677] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 934.933750] Process deliver (pid: 4301, threadinfo ffff880076c06000, task ffff88007d10a4e0) [ 934.935047] Stack: [ 934.935113] ffffea0001d82dc0 0000000000000001 0000000004cc4789 ffffffff8131bad6 [ 934.935236] 000000001725db78 ffffffff81ca03c8 ffff88007d10ab48 ffff880076c07c10 [ 934.935355] 0000000076c06010 0000000100000000 ffff8800172269b0 ffff88000d2a4000 [ 934.935471] Call Trace: [ 934.935534] [<ffffffff8131bad6>] ? ocfs2_read_blocks+0x176/0x6c0 [ 934.935600] [<ffffffff8133b0a0>] ? ocfs2_find_actor+0x120/0x120 [ 934.935665] [<ffffffff8133aac7>] ? ocfs2_read_inode_block_full+0x37/0x60 [ 934.935734] [<ffffffff8138ab1f>] ? ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage+0x2f/0x160 [ 934.935803] [<ffffffff8110fff5>] ? do_read_cache_page+0x85/0x180 [ 934.935868] [<ffffffff8138aaf0>] ? ocfs2_fill_super+0x2500/0x2500 [ 934.935934] [<ffffffff81110149>] ? read_cache_page+0x9/0x20 [ 934.935999] [<ffffffff811565e5>] ? page_getlink+0x25/0x80 [ 934.936062] [<ffffffff8115665b>] ? page_follow_link_light+0x1b/0x30 [ 934.936128] [<ffffffff8115ab27>] ? path_lookupat+0x327/0x6c0 [ 934.936193] [<ffffffff8115aeec>] ? do_path_lookup+0x2c/0xc0 [ 934.936258] [<ffffffff8133b501>] ? ocfs2_inode_revalidate+0x71/0x160 [ 934.936325] [<ffffffff8113210a>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x8a/0x920 [ 934.936390] [<ffffffff8115bd8c>] ? user_path_at_empty+0x5c/0xb0 [ 934.936457] [<ffffffff81066fca>] ? do_page_fault+0x1aa/0x3c0 [ 934.936523] [<ffffffff81150ded>] ? cp_new_stat+0x10d/0x120 [ 934.936588] [<ffffffff81150ee1>] ? vfs_fstatat+0x41/0x80 [ 934.936653] [<ffffffff8115101f>] ? sys_newstat+0x1f/0x50 [ 934.936720] [<ffffffff817cb8a2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Does it gives some better information ? Do you haev some ideas of thinks that could be tested ? Vincent -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html