4 Last updated: 28 October 2016
9 Always try the latest kernel from kernel.org and build from source. If you are
10 not confident in doing that please report the bug to your distribution vendor
11 instead of to a kernel developer.
13 Finding bugs is not always easy. Have a go though. If you can't find it don't
14 give up. Report as much as you have found to the relevant maintainer. See
15 MAINTAINERS for who that is for the subsystem you have worked on.
17 Before you submit a bug report read
18 'Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst'.
23 Often this is caused by udev/systemd. Check that first before blaming it
26 Finding patch that caused a bug
27 ===============================
29 Using the provided tools with ``git`` makes finding bugs easy provided the bug
34 - build the Kernel from its git source
35 - start bisect with [#f1]_::
39 - mark the broken changeset with::
41 $ git bisect bad [commit]
43 - mark a changeset where the code is known to work with::
45 $ git bisect good [commit]
47 - rebuild the Kernel and test
48 - interact with git bisect by using either::
56 depending if the bug happened on the changeset you're testing
57 - After some interactions, git bisect will give you the changeset that
58 likely caused the bug.
60 - For example, if you know that the current version is bad, and version
61 4.8 is good, you could do::
64 $ git bisect bad # Current version is bad
65 $ git bisect good v4.8
68 .. [#f1] You can, optionally, provide both good and bad arguments at git
69 start with ``git bisect start [BAD] [GOOD]``
71 For further references, please read:
73 - The man page for ``git-bisect``
74 - `Fighting regressions with git bisect <https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect-lk2009.html>`_
75 - `Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run" <https://lwn.net/Articles/317154>`_
76 - `Using Git bisect to figure out when brokenness was introduced <http://webchick.net/node/99>`_