2.6.35-rc3: Reported regressions 2.6.33 -> 2.6.34

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <hidden>
Date: 2010-06-20 22:42:40
Also in: linux-acpi, linux-scsi, linux-wireless, lkml

This message contains a list of some post-2.6.33 regressions introduced before
2.6.34, for which there are no fixes in the mainline known to the tracking team.
If any of them have been fixed already, please let us know.

If you know of any other unresolved post-2.6.33 regressions, please let us know
either and we'll add them to the list.  Also, please let us 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
  ----------------------------------------
  2010-06-21      114       36          28
  2010-06-13      111       40          34
  2010-05-09       80       27          24
  2010-05-04       76       26          22
  2010-04-20       64       35          34
  2010-04-07       48       35          33
  2010-03-21       15       13          10


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16254
Subject		: TCP stream performance regression due to c377411f2494a931ff7facdbb3a6839b1266bcf6
Submitter	: Alex,Shi [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-18 7:17 (3 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/c377411f2494a931ff7facdbb3a6839b1266bcf6
Message-ID	: <1276845448.2118.346.camel@debian>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127684931020672&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16233
Subject		: Fwd: [2.6.34] INFO: task rsync:20019 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Submitter	: Jan De Luyck [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-14 19:49 (7 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127654498016377&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16207
Subject		: Suspend hangs since 2.6.34
Submitter	: Tino Keitel [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-09 17:53 (12 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127610606214060&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16206
Subject		: PROBLEM: PPP and other serial port related application hangs in kernel space
Submitter	: Ales Teska [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-09 20:46 (12 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127611640301071&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16170
Subject		: Leadtek Winfast DTV Dongle (STK7700P based) is not working in 2.6.34
Submitter	:  [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-09 11:11 (12 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16162
Subject		: SSD + sata_nv + btrfs oops
Submitter	: Dave Airlie [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-01 3:04 (20 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127536149022333&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16158
Subject		: winxp guest hangs after idle for ~30 minutes
Submitter	:  [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-08 17:52 (13 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16139
Subject		: wait_even_interruptible_timeout(), signal, spin_lock() = system hang
Submitter	: Shirish Pargaonkar [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-28 16:44 (24 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127506510328758&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16137
Subject		: Ooops in BTRFS in 2.6.34 / x86_64 when mounting subvolume by name
Submitter	: armin walland [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-27 12:27 (25 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127496434110736&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16135
Subject		: [BUG] kacpi_notify goes into an infinite loop (luckly it calls cond_resched)
Submitter	: Steven Rostedt [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-29 1:01 (23 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/fa80945269f312bc609e8384302f58b03c916e12
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127509490405845&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16111
Subject		: hostap_pci: infinite registered netdevice wifi0
Submitter	: Petr Pisar [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-02 20:55 (19 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16097
Subject		: 2.6.34 on Samsung P460: reset after "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated"
Submitter	: Harald Dunkel [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-25 9:12 (27 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127477877432254&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16084
Subject		: iwl3945 bug in 2.6.34
Submitter	: Satish Eerpini [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-23 6:37 (29 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127459596015626&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16082
Subject		: host panic on kernel 2.6.34
Submitter	: Hao, Xudong [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-24 8:23 (28 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127468951208864&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16050
Subject		: The ibmcam driver is not working
Submitter	: Bill Davidsen [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-25 23:02 (27 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16035
Subject		: Incorrect initial resolution of (external) vga monitor with KMS
Submitter	:  [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-23 12:28 (29 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16034
Subject		: 2.6.34: dlm: possible circular locking dependency detected
Submitter	: CaT [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-21 6:59 (31 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127442519608471&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15977
Subject		: WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:866 check_for_stack
Submitter	: Zdenek Kabelac [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-14 8:56 (38 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127382742729825&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15936
Subject		: Suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage detected during 2.6.34-rc6 boot on PPC64/p5 processor
Submitter	: Subrata Modak [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-06 7:29 (46 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127313031922395&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15924
Subject		: kacpid consumes ~100% CPU, system freezes randomly
Submitter	: Jaroslav Kameník [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-06 21:12 (46 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15862
Subject		: 2.6.34-rc4/5: iwlagn unusable until reload
Submitter	: Nico Schottelius [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-04-27 7:49 (55 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127235784004839&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15805
Subject		: reiserfs locking
Submitter	: Alexander Beregalov [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-04-15 21:02 (67 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127136535323933&w=2
Handled-By	: Frederic Weisbecker [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15717
Subject		: bluetooth oops
Submitter	: Pavel Machek [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-03-14 20:14 (99 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126859771528426&w=4
Handled-By	: Marcel Holtmann [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15704
Subject		: [r8169] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c
Submitter	: Sergey Senozhatsky [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-03-31 10:21 (82 days old)
Message-ID	: [ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127003090406108&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15673
Subject		: 2.6.34-rc2: "ima_dec_counts: open/free imbalance"?
Submitter	: Thomas Meyer [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-03-28 11:31 (85 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126977593326800&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15671
Subject		: intel graphic card hanging (Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung)
Submitter	: Norbert Preining [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-03-27 16:11 (86 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126970883105262&w=2
Handled-By	: Jesse Barnes [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15669
Subject		: INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check()
Submitter	: Zdenek Kabelac [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-03-08 1:26 (105 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126801163107713&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15664
Subject		: Graphics hang and kernel backtrace when starting Azureus with Compiz enabled
Submitter	: Alex Villacis Lasso [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-04-01 01:09 (81 days old)


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16147
Subject		: ksoftirq hogs the CPU
Submitter	: Thomas Jarosch [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-07 15:17 (14 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/ae74e823cb7d4cd476f623fce9a38f625f6c09a8
Handled-By	: Martin Wilck [off-list ref]
Patch		: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=26732


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16138
Subject		: PCMCIA regression
Submitter	: Mikulas Patocka [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-25 20:25 (27 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127481913909672&w=2
Handled-By	: Dominik Brodowski [off-list ref]
Patch		: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=26685


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16054
Subject		: UML broken for CONFIG_SLAB
Submitter	: Parag Warudkar [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-23 21:40 (29 days old)
Message-ID	: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1005231149100.605@parag-laptop>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127465083806617&w=2
Handled-By	: Borislav Petkov [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://git.kernel.org/tip/055c47272b8f5679d08ccc57efea3cb4aaeb5fc6


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16040
Subject		: kacpid consumes ~40% of cpu all the time beginning with 2.6.34
Submitter	: Mehmet Giritli [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-24 07:32 (28 days old)
Patch		: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104903/
		  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104912/
		  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104909/
		  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104911/
		  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104910/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16007
Subject		: x86/pci Oops with CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL
Submitter	: Graham Ramsey [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-19 17:09 (33 days old)
Handled-By	: Yinghai Lu [off-list ref]
Patch		: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/105662/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15951
Subject		: commit 9630bdd9 changes behavior of the poweroff
Submitter	: Michal Hocko [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-04-01 13:39 (81 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/9630bdd9b15d2f489c646d8bc04b60e53eb5ec78
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127012918316305&w=4
Handled-By	: Rafael J. Wysocki [off-list ref]
Patch		: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/106701/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15863
Subject		: 2.6.34-rc5-git7 (plus all patches) -- another suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage.
Submitter	: Miles Lane [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-04-27 0:51 (55 days old)
Message-ID	: [ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127232949104878&w=2
Handled-By	: Paul E. McKenney [off-list ref]
Patch		: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/96096/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15589
Subject		: 2.6.34-rc1: Badness at fs/proc/generic.c:316
Submitter	: Christian Kujau [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-03-13 23:53 (100 days old)
Message-ID	: < [off-list ref]>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126852442903680&w=2
Handled-By	: Michael Ellerman [off-list ref]
		  Jindřich Makovička [off-list ref]
Patch		: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/52978/
		  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1006.0/00137.html


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 introduced
between 2.6.33 and 2.6.34, unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15310

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

Thanks!

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