Comment 50 for bug 330824

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Carey Underwood (cwillu) wrote : Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

@Theo

I'm about halfway through a git bisect of mainline 2.6.28 -> 2.6.29,
and (unsurprisingly I now realize) haven't been able to reproduce.
I'm pulling down git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-jaunty.git
right now, and will run a bisect against mainline 2.6.28 and ubuntu's
2.6.28-11.38.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Theodore Ts'o <email address hidden> wrote:
> So what this means is at this point, is that I need some volunteer to
> try doing a git bisect, this time between a stock kernel version used as
> the base for an official Ubuntu kernel, and the fully applied set of
> patches for an Ubuntu kernel, so we can find which patch in the Ubuntu
> sauce series seems to make this problem easy to manifest (i.e.,
> appearing within hours, versus taking a month or so of normal usage
> before it shows up).   When we find the "problem" patch, it may not be
> the guilty patch, but it might unmask the real root cause of the
> problem, and so by looking at the patch, maybe we'll get a good hint
> about what the real underlying problem might be.