2.6.35-rc4-git4: Reported regressions 2.6.33 -> 2.6.34

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <hidden>
Date: 2010-07-10 00:23:53
Also in: dri-devel, linux-acpi, linux-scsi, linux-wireless, lkml

[NOTES:
 * This list seems to be shrinking at last.
 * The bug entries with the NEEDINFO status will be closed next round if the
   reporters don't follow up.]

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
  ----------------------------------------
  2010-07-10      122       25          24
  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=16357
Subject		: acpi-cpufreq fails to load (No such device)
Submitter	: Ambroz Bizjak [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-07-09 09:40 (1 days old)
Handled-By	: Thomas Renninger [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16348
Subject		: kswapd continuously active when doing IO
Submitter	: Marius Tolzmann [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-07-07 10:58 (3 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16320
Subject		: iwl3945 crashes, seems to be disconnecting from the PCI bus
Submitter	: Satish [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-07-01 08:24 (9 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16318
Subject		: macbook pro 5,1 does not boot with acpi
Submitter	:  [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-30 13:38 (10 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16300
Subject		: [2.6.34 regression] mplayer gets out of sync due to problems with ALSA
Submitter	: Artem S. Tashkinov [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-26 20:39 (14 days old)
Handled-By	: Takashi Iwai [off-list ref]


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16270
Subject		: Image is a hit-or-a-miss. Often displayed green+purple
Submitter	: Vish [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-22 10:47 (18 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/acef4a407ed6e0a9ed87a2747be592fe49e64bdd
Handled-By	: Jean-Francois Moine [off-list ref]


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 (26 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 and VT switch hangs since 2.6.34
Submitter	: Tino Keitel [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-06-09 17:53 (31 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 (31 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 (31 days old)


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 (32 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 (43 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 (44 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=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 (46 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=16082
Subject		: host panic on kernel 2.6.34
Submitter	: Hao, Xudong [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-24 8:23 (47 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 (46 days old)
Handled-By	: Hans de Goede [off-list ref]


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 (48 days old)


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 (57 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=15912
Subject		: Audio/video sync and crackling issues with snd-hda-intel (AD1981 codec)
Submitter	: Øyvind Stegard [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-05-05 16:20 (66 days old)
Handled-By	: Jaroslav Kysela [off-list ref]


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 (74 days old)
Message-ID	: [off-list ref]
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127235784004839&w=2
Handled-By	: Johannes Berg [off-list ref]


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 (86 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=15704
Subject		: [r8169] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c
Submitter	: Sergey Senozhatsky [off-list ref]
Date		: 2010-03-31 10:21 (101 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 (104 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=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 (100 days old)


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

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 (52 days old)
Handled-By	: Yinghai Lu [off-list ref]
		  Bjorn Helgaas [off-list ref]
Patch		: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/105662/


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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