2.6.31-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <hidden>
Date: 2009-08-25 22:59:18
Also in: linux-acpi, linux-scsi, linux-wireless, lkml

This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.30, for which there
are no fixes in the mainline I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already,
please let me know.

If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.30, please let me know
either and I'll add them to the list.  Also, please let me know if any of the
entries below are invalid.

Each entry from the list will be sent additionally in an automatic reply to
this message with CCs to the people involved in reporting and handling the
issue.


Listed regressions statistics:

  Date          Total  Pending  Unresolved
  ----------------------------------------
  2009-08-26      108       33          26
  2009-08-20      102       32          29
  2009-08-10       89       27          24
  2009-08-02       76       36          28
  2009-07-27       70       51          43
  2009-07-07       35       25          21
  2009-06-29       22       22          15


Unresolved regressions
----------------------

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14060
Subject		: oops: sysfs_remove_link and i915
Submitter	: Dominik Brodowski [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-22 5:48 (4 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125092139113955&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14058
Subject		: Oops in fsnotify
Submitter	: Grant Wilson [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-20 15:48 (6 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125078450923133&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14057
Subject		: Strange network timeouts w/ e100
Submitter	: Walt Holman [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-20 0:21 (6 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125072831831443&w=4
Handled-By	: Krzysztof Halasa [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14031
Subject		: dvb_usb_af9015: Oops on hotplugging
Submitter	: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-05 20:32 (21 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124949716608828&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14018
Subject		: kernel freezes, inotify problem
Submitter	: Christoph Thielecke [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-19 12:48 (7 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125068616818353&w=4
Handled-By	: Eric Paris [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14016
Subject		: mm/ipw2200 regression
Submitter	: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-15 16:56 (11 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125036437221408&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14015
Subject		: pty regressed again, breaking expect and gcc's testsuite
Submitter	: Mikael Pettersson [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-14 23:41 (12 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125029329805643&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14013
Subject		: hd don't show up
Submitter	: Tim Blechmann [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-14 8:26 (12 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125023842514480&w=4
Handled-By	: Tejun Heo [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14012
Subject		: latest git fried my x86_64 imac
Submitter	: Justin P. Mattock [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-13 07:20 (13 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014080427090&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14011
Subject		: Kernel paging request failed in kmem_cache_alloc
Submitter	: Matthias Dahl [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-10 22:26 (16 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124993603825082&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13987
Subject		: Received NMI interrupt at resume
Submitter	: Christian Casteyde [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-15 07:55 (11 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13950
Subject		: Oops when USB Serial disconnected while in use
Submitter	: Bruno Prémont [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-08 17:47 (18 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124975432900466&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13943
Subject		: WARNING: at net/mac80211/mlme.c:2292 with ath5k
Submitter	: Fabio Comolli [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-06 20:15 (20 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124958978600600&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13942
Subject		: Troubles with AoE and uninitialized object
Submitter	: Bruno Prémont [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-04 10:12 (22 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124938117104811&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13941
Subject		: x86 Geode issue
Submitter	: Martin-Éric Racine [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-03 12:58 (23 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124930434732481&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940
Subject		: iwlagn and sky2 stopped working, ACPI-related
Submitter	: Ricardo Jorge da Fonseca Marques Ferreira [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-07 22:33 (19 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124968457731107&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13935
Subject		: 2.6.31-rcX breaks Apple MightyMouse (Bluetooth version)
Submitter	: Adrian Ulrich [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-08 22:08 (18 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fa047e4f6fa63a6e9d0ae4d7749538830d14a343


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13906
Subject		: Huawei E169 GPRS connection causes Ooops
Submitter	: Clemens Eisserer [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-04 09:02 (22 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13869
Subject		: Radeon framebuffer (w/o KMS) corruption at boot.
Submitter	: Duncan [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-07-29 16:44 (28 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13848
Subject		: iwlwifi (4965) regression since 2.6.30
Submitter	: Lukas Hejtmanek [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-07-26 7:57 (31 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124859658502866&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13836
Subject		: suspend script fails, related to stdout?
Submitter	: Tomas M. [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-07-17 21:24 (40 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124785853811667&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13819
Subject		: system freeze when switching to console
Submitter	: Reinette Chatre [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-07-23 17:57 (34 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13809
Subject		: oprofile: possible circular locking dependency detected
Submitter	: Jerome Marchand [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-07-22 13:35 (35 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13740
Subject		: X server crashes with 2.6.31-rc2 when options are changed
Submitter	: Michael S. Tsirkin [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-07-07 15:19 (50 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13733
Subject		: 2.6.31-rc2: irq 16: nobody cared
Submitter	: Niel Lambrechts [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-07-06 18:32 (51 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124690524027166&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13645
Subject		: NULL pointer dereference at (null) (level2_spare_pgt)
Submitter	: poornima nayak [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-06-17 17:56 (70 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/17/194


Regressions with patches
------------------------

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14062
Subject		: Failure to boot as xen guest
Submitter	: Arnd Hannemann [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-25 15:48 (1 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=83b519e8b9572c319c8e0c615ee5dd7272856090
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125121534229538&w=4
Handled-By	: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/43799/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14061
Subject		: Crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id
Submitter	: Ravikiran G Thirumalai [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-24 18:26 (2 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125114085701508&w=4
Handled-By	: Yinghai Lu [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/43806/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14030
Subject		: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008, pty-related
Submitter	: Eric W. Biederman [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-20 5:46 (6 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125074724623423&w=4
Handled-By	: Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/43679/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14017
Subject		: _end symbol missing from Symbol.map
Submitter	: Hannes Reinecke [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-13 6:45 (13 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=091e52c3551d3031343df24b573b770b4c6c72b6
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014649102253&w=4
Handled-By	: Hannes Reinecke [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014649102253&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13960
Subject		: rtl8187 not connect to wifi
Submitter	: okias [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-10 19:16 (16 days old)
Handled-By	: Larry Finger [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22798


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13948
Subject		: ath5k broken after suspend-to-ram
Submitter	: Johannes Stezenbach [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-07 21:51 (19 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124968192727854&w=4
Handled-By	: Nick Kossifidis [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38550/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13947
Subject		: Libertas: Association request to the driver failed
Submitter	: Daniel Mack [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-08-07 19:11 (19 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=57921c312e8cef72ba35a4cfe870b376da0b1b87
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124967234311481&w=4
Handled-By	: Roel Kluin [off-list ref]
		  Dan Williams [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/43114/


For details, please visit the bug entries and follow the links given in
references.

As you can see, there is a Bugzilla entry for each of the listed regressions.
There also is a Bugzilla entry used for tracking the regressions from 2.6.30,
unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13615

Please let me know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to
the list in there.

Thanks,
Rafael
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help