Greetings, I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is commit c65c1877bd6826ce0d9713d76e30a7bed8e49f38 Author: Peter Zijlstra AuthorDate: Fri Jan 10 13:23:49 2014 +0100 Commit: Pekka Enberg CommitDate: Mon Jan 13 21:34:39 2014 +0200 slub: use lockdep_assert_held Instead of using comments in an attempt at getting the locking right, use proper assertions that actively warn you if you got it wrong. Also add extra braces in a few sites to comply with coding-style. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg =================================================== PARENT COMMIT NOT CLEAN. LOOK OUT FOR WRONG BISECT! =================================================== +------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ | | 8afb1474db47 | 4ce63c662360 | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ | boot_successes | 67 | 0 | | boot_failures | 13 | 29 | | WARNING:CPU:PID:at_kernel/events/core.c:perf_swevent_add() | 13 | 3 | | WARNING:CPU:PID:at_mm/slub.c:__kmem_cache_create() | 0 | 29 | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ [ 0.000000] .text : 0x41000000 - 0x41277e78 (2527 kB) [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok. [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/slub.c:1511 __kmem_cache_create+0x219/0x229() [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.13.0-rc8-01969-g4ce63c6 #127 [ 0.000000] 00000000 00000000 413fdf08 412710de 413fdf38 4102bb54 4137f43b 00000000 [ 0.000000] 00000000 41388b53 000005e7 41093e15 41093e15 415c76e0 4009a000 4e31c810 [ 0.000000] 413fdf48 4102bbe7 00000009 00000000 413fdf80 41093e15 4126f38b 00000000 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<412710de>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [ 0.000000] [<4102bb54>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0x87 [ 0.000000] [<41093e15>] ? __kmem_cache_create+0x219/0x229 [ 0.000000] [<41093e15>] ? __kmem_cache_create+0x219/0x229 [ 0.000000] [<4102bbe7>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x1f [ 0.000000] [<41093e15>] __kmem_cache_create+0x219/0x229 [ 0.000000] [<4126f38b>] ? printk+0x38/0x3a [ 0.000000] [<415a170f>] create_boot_cache+0x32/0x5d [ 0.000000] [<415a2663>] kmem_cache_init+0x48/0xd4 [ 0.000000] [<4158c7d3>] start_kernel+0x176/0x329 [ 0.000000] [<4158c493>] ? repair_env_string+0x51/0x51 [ 0.000000] [<4158c2af>] i386_start_kernel+0x79/0x7d [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace db4b7fde7786bb07 ]--- [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=128, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 git bisect start 4ce63c662360dbc01efaba87ffadd97378d89a11 7e22e91102c6b9df7c4ae2168910e19d2bb14cd6 -- git bisect good ab99033234a066211c8585e1af5c46951ac4a161 # 18:17 20+ 4 Merge 'drm-intel/drm-intel-nightly' into devel-roam-i386-201401140347 git bisect good d35ea44219e64da8dc67362c10b5dbcba7f18b49 # 18:27 20+ 5 Merge 'net-next/master' into devel-roam-i386-201401140347 git bisect bad f822a99c9447a00d7206f1aa013474252a85f190 # 18:33 0- 5 Merge 'slab/slab/next' into devel-roam-i386-201401140347 git bisect good 8afb1474db4701d1ab80cd8251137a3260e6913e # 18:58 20+ 2 slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabs git bisect bad 26e4f2057516f1c457e0e95346a00303f983ad53 # 19:08 0- 3 slub: Fix possible format string bug. git bisect bad c65c1877bd6826ce0d9713d76e30a7bed8e49f38 # 19:14 0- 7 slub: use lockdep_assert_held # first bad commit: [c65c1877bd6826ce0d9713d76e30a7bed8e49f38] slub: use lockdep_assert_held git bisect good 8afb1474db4701d1ab80cd8251137a3260e6913e # 19:25 60+ 13 slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabs git bisect bad 4ce63c662360dbc01efaba87ffadd97378d89a11 # 19:25 0- 29 0day head guard for 'devel-roam-i386-201401140347' git bisect good 73b782c4a36ff1dffbd90123416fed218842d180 # 19:44 60+ 8 Revert "slub: use lockdep_assert_held" git bisect good a6da83f98267bc8ee4e34aa899169991eb0ceb93 # 20:08 60+ 14 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc git bisect bad cf1c1d193e37b9f79eedddc6bbd71b9f5f9751e5 # 20:17 0- 1 Add linux-next specific files for 20140114 Thanks, Fengguang