The following status report update can be found at:
http://members.cox.net/tmolina/kernprobs/021004-status.html
The latest update can be found at:
http://members.cox.net/tmolina/kernprobs/status.html
Notes:
* Items marked closed or probable fix will be deleted after Linus
issues the next patch version
* Numerous people are reporting oops on boot in 2.5.39. It appears
the problems are all caused by a bug in isapnp initialization. The
fix is either to disable isapnp or patch in a workaround.
Status Discussion Problem Title
open 30 Sep 2002 KVM/Mouse problem
1. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103299680529254&w=2
The problem was beeing investigated, but I never saw any reference to a
fix being submitted to Linus.
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open 20 Sep 2002 AIC7XXX boot failure
2. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103356254615324&w=2
There have been problems reported off and on with this driver in 2.5.
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open 18 Sep 2002 Dead loop on virtual device lo
3. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103238248416900&w=2
This was reported for 2.5.36, but I've not seen any followups nor
reference to a fix. There have been several updates to loop.c. Does this
problem still exist? I'm ready to delete it from the list.
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open 18 Sep 2002 DRM/XFree issue
4. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103238121815285&w=2
This was reported for 2.5.36, but I've not seen any followups nor
reference to a fix. There have been several updates referring to DRM.
Does this problem still exist? I'm getting ready to drop it from the
list.
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open 20 Sep 2002 oops in lock_get_status
5. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103244657605155&w=2
This was being discussed, then data was requested by Matthew Wilcox
<[email protected]> off-list. I've seen no further followups. What is the
status of this? I'm getting ready to drop it from the list.
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open 04 Oct 2002 scheduling while atomic oops
6. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103270005902896&w=2
This appears to be a long-running problem. Is it related to the group of
problems below involving "function might sleep while holding a lock" or is
it a scheduling system problem?
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open 30 Sep 2002 ide-scsi kernel panic
7. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103336376827272&w=2
Several people have reported problems with ide-scsi either oopsing,
locking up, or causing problems when being inserted or removed. I have
seen any reference to a fix for this one.
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open 29 Sep 2002 IDE problems on prePCI
8. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103277899317468&w=2
Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]> reported this problem and proposed a
patch. Was the patch accepted, and did it fix the problem?
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open 02 Oct 2002 modular IDE broken
9. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103281667726673&w=2
Doctor, Doctor it hurts when I build ide modular. Well don't do that
then. Alan Cox says this won't be fixed until all other problems with the
ide system get fixed.
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fix available 02 Oct 2002 loadlin boot problem
10. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103351848816172&w=2
I'm going to delete this one when Linus issues 2.5.41 unless someone
objects.
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open 25 Sep 2002 2.5.38-mm2 aha152x module fails
11. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103296031616858&w=2
Is this specific to the mm tree or does the problem also exist in Linus'
tree? I've not seen reference to a fix.
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open 27 Sep 2002 loop trying to go beyond end of
device
12. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103315199307542&w=2
This problem was reported for 2.5.38. I've seen no updates, nor any
reference to a fix. Does the problem still exist in 2.5.40?
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open 29 Sep 2002 USB Mass Storage Conflicts
13. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103332858305678&w=2
Stephen Marz <[email protected]> reported this problem for
2.5.38. I've not seen any followups, nor any reference to a fix. Does
the problem still exist?
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open 29 Sep 2002 Oracle 9.2 goes OOM on startup
14. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103333545310595&w=2
This problem was reported for 2.5.39. I have seen neither a followup, nor
a reference to a fix. Does this problem still exist in 2.5.40?
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open 23 Sep 2002 oops in vsnprintf (2.5-bk)
15. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103282505101823&w=2
More than one person has reported problems when doing a bk pull. Is this
a driver problem, or an application problem?
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open 25 Sep 2002 oops with kernel LLC
16. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103296919327682&w=2
followups 29 Sep 2002
17. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103334051214575&w=2
[email protected] (Bob_Tracy) reported this for 2.5.38. He was
requested to try the next version to see if the problem still exists. I
have not seen a followup. Does the problem still exist?
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open 27 Sep 2002 oops on modprobe sg
18. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103313163215676&w=2
This problem appears related to the other ide-scsi problem reported above.
Should there be a single item tracking problems with inserting and
removing ide-scsi related modules?
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open 29 Sep 2002 oops on boot in 2.5.39
19. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103334726918669&w=2
additional report 01 Oct 2002 also in 2.5.40
20. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103343520729702&w=2
Several people have reported oops on boot in device_attach. It may be
related to isapnp, but that is not confirmed.
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open 30 Sep 2002 P4 clock modulation crash
21. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103341311908313&w=2
possible fix available 01 Oct 2002
22. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103341862014756&w=2
This was reported for 2.5.39. Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]> reported
a probable fix and sent it to Linus. I will delete this item when Linus
issues 2.5.41 unless someone objects.
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possible fix available 03 Oct 2002 Menuconfig is broken
23. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103356058613554&w=2
Numerous people reported this problem, and a fix was discussed. I will
await results from 2.5.41 testing to decide whether to delete this item or
not.
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open 2.5.40 init_irq() function doing unsafe
things inside ide_lock
24. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103316967724891&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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open 2.5.40 usb_hub_events() does down() in
hub_event_lock
25. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103317380027379&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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open 2.5.40 pci_pool_create() calling
device_create_file() under
pools_lock
26. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103317380227383&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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open 2.5.40 register_console() called in illegal
context
27. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103282695403237&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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open 2.5.40 eata2x_detect() calls port_detect()
under driver_lock
28. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103281310122580&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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fix in bk 2.5.40 sys_ioperm() is calling
kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) in
preempt_disable()
29. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103281732827302&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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fix in bk 2.5.40 snd_pcm_oss_poll() calls poll_wait()
in runtime->lock
30. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103281732827302&w=2
possible fix available 04 Oct 2002 sg_init() vmalloc() in
write_lock_irqsave
31. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103327490712028&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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open 2.5.40 snd_ctl_elem_write() calls
snd_ctl_notify() under read_lock
32. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103327490412023&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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open 2.5.40 sym_eh_handler does down(&ep->sem)
and might sleep
33. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103372067026942&w=2
Might sleep while holding a lock.
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open 03 Oct 2002 module loading problem
34. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103351991417181&w=2
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open 02 Oct 2002 raid0_make_request bug
35. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103357721401461&w=2
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open 02 Oct 2002 Keyboard problems
36. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103352741722028&w=2
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open 03 Oct 2002 ACPI Mutex failure
37. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103369523011536&w=2
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open 02 Oct 2002 DAC960 broken
38. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103351317411581&w=2
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open 02 Oct 2002 oops when rebooting 2.5.40 in
driverfs_remove_file
39. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103382033404384&w=2
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open 04 Oct 2002 SCSI st tape wrong minor
40. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103382033204377&w=2
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open 04 Oct 2002 serial cons prob on reboot in 2.5
41. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103382033004372&w=2
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> open 04 Oct 2002 SCSI st tape wrong minor
> 40. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103382033204377&w=2
FIXED. Kai Makisara pushed a patch to Linus.
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote:
>
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > open 04 Oct 2002 SCSI st tape wrong minor
> > 40. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103382033204377&w=2
>
> FIXED. Kai Makisara pushed a patch to Linus.
Thanks. I saw the message from Kai about 10 minutes after I submitted the
status report. It is now listed as fix available on my web page.
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 12:57, Thomas Molina wrote:
> open 04 Oct 2002 scheduling while atomic oops
> 6. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103270005902896&w=2
>
> This appears to be a long-running problem. Is it related to the group of
> problems below involving "function might sleep while holding a lock" or is
> it a scheduling system problem?
This is the same thing as all those "sleeping while atomic"
(might_sleep) bugs below. It is just a debugging check. It does the
same check as might_sleep but during schedule().
If you had specific culprits (i.e. foo() calls bar() which schedules
while foo() holds the baz lock) would be very useful. Otherwise listing
this as a problem is not useful.
> open 29 Sep 2002 Oracle 9.2 goes OOM on startup
> 14. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103333545310595&w=2
>
> This problem was reported for 2.5.39. I have seen neither a followup, nor
> a reference to a fix. Does this problem still exist in 2.5.40?
Should be fixed in bk.
> open 2.5.40 init_irq() function doing unsafe
> things inside ide_lock
> 24. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103316967724891&w=2
>
> Might sleep while holding a lock.
Is this still not fixed? Ugh.
BTW, I like the fact you are listing specific atomicity issues. Thank
you. It is a lot more useful than just saying there are "sleeping while
atomic" bugs.
Robert Love
Thomas Molina wrote:
> additional report 01 Oct 2002 also in 2.5.40
> 20. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103343520729702&w=2
>
>Several people have reported oops on boot in device_attach. It may be
>related to isapnp, but that is not confirmed.
I reported the above oops was fixed for me here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103349300620391&w=2
The new oops on boot for 2.5.39 which I referred to in that message,
and which I also reported for 2.5.40 here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103350518802833&w=2
has been fixed (for me anyway) in 2.5.40-ac3.
Thanks,
Steven
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:57:59 -0500 (CDT), Thomas Molina wrote:
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> open 29 Sep 2002 IDE problems on prePCI
> 8. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103277899317468&w=2
>
>Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]> reported this problem and proposed a
>patch. Was the patch accepted, and did it fix the problem?
The patch was for minor subproblem, not the instant reboot problem.
The reboot still occurs in 2.5.40.
Another issue: initrd appears to be broken since 2.5.38. See the
"initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40" thread.
/Mikael
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:57:59 -0500 (CDT), Thomas Molina wrote:
> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > open 29 Sep 2002 IDE problems on prePCI
> > 8. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103277899317468&w=2
> >
> >Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]> reported this problem and proposed a
> >patch. Was the patch accepted, and did it fix the problem?
>
> The patch was for minor subproblem, not the instant reboot problem.
> The reboot still occurs in 2.5.40.
>
> Another issue: initrd appears to be broken since 2.5.38. See the
> "initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40" thread.
I misunderstood the timing of Al Viro's proposed fix for the problem. I
thought it was going in right away and the issue would be moot. I've
added it to my list. Unfortunately, I'm getting connection refused
messages when trying to connect to bkbits, so I'm unable to browse the
comments like I usually do when researching this stuff.
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:10:58PM -0500, Thomas Molina wrote:
> I misunderstood the timing of Al Viro's proposed fix for the problem. I
> thought it was going in right away and the issue would be moot. I've
> added it to my list. Unfortunately, I'm getting connection refused
> messages when trying to connect to bkbits, so I'm unable to browse the
> comments like I usually do when researching this stuff.
The log seems to be down. You can look at the short form changelog in
kernel.org's snapshots/ dir though...
john
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote:
>
> The following status report update can be found at:
> http://members.cox.net/tmolina/kernprobs/021004-status.html
>
> The latest update can be found at:
> http://members.cox.net/tmolina/kernprobs/status.html
>
>
> Notes:
> * Items marked closed or probable fix will be deleted after Linus
> issues the next patch version
> * Numerous people are reporting oops on boot in 2.5.39. It appears
> the problems are all caused by a bug in isapnp initialization. The
> fix is either to disable isapnp or patch in a workaround.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> fix available 02 Oct 2002 loadlin boot problem
> 10. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103351848816172&w=2
>
> I'm going to delete this one when Linus issues 2.5.41 unless someone
> objects.
Someone posted a link to an updated version of loadlin. The updated
version works with 2.5.32+ kernels. So I can confirm the available fix.
So either the updated version of loadlin or the linld bootloader will fix
this problem.
Greetz Mu
> 2.5 Kernel Problem Reports as of 12 Oct
>
> Status Discussion Problem Title
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> open 05 Oct 2002 2.5.x and 8250 UART problems
>
> 22. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103383019409525&w=2
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
2.5.41 didn't boot on the test machine.
2.5.42 does boot on the test machine, and exhibits the same problems
Typical scenario:
MMX-200 with plenty of RAM (128 MB), and a 16550A UART running 2.5.40
doing a 9600 bps Z-Modem transfer to
486 SX-20 with 4 MB RAM, and a 8250 UART, running 2.5.42
>From time to time, (every 4-8K or so), the Z-Modem protocol will
detect an error, and re-send blocks.
This does not occur with 2.2.13 or 2.2.21 on the 486.
Usually the errors occur at the same time as hard disk accesses, but
turning on IRQ unmasking does not prevent them. Also, sometimes the
hard disk is accessed, and no error occurs.
John.
On Oct 12 2002, Thomas wrote:
[snip]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> open 11 Oct 2002 apm hangs instead of suspending
>
> 41. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103432997711883&w=2
Here's some more info related to the above issue.
The below BUG occured on a freshly booted 2.5.42 kernel, when I tried to
enter suspend2ram mode on a Latitude CPx H500GT. Please let me know if
you need any more information.
Oct 13 02:12:23 arwen kernel: xircom_suspend(eth0)
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: kernel BUG at drivers/base/core.c:251!
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: binfmt_misc xircom_tulip_cb crc32 ds yenta_socket pcmcia_core psmouse maestro soundcore apm rtc
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: CPU: 0
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: EIP: 0060:[put_device+71/112] Tainted: P
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c7528050 ecx: c75280e8 edx: c6cac000
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: esi: c7f93050 edi: c7528000 ebp: c7535800 esp: c6caddec
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: Process apmd (pid: 359, threadinfo=c6cac000 task=c7641940)
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: Stack: c7528000 00000000 c017c9b6 c7528050 c7528000 c883ad17 c7528000 c7535800
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: c7535800 c6cade78 c022d400 c8837fea c7535800 c7535800 c7535800 c753580c
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: c7535800 00000080 c6cade78 c022d400 c8838315 c7535800 00000003 c7535800
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: Call Trace: [pci_remove_device+14/56] [<c883ad17>] [<c8837fea>] [<c8838315>] [<c8838356>] [<c88381d8>] [<c883816c>] [<c88380fc>] [<
c8838398>] [<c8838458>] [<c883e3e8>] [pci_pm_resume_device+27/32] [pci_pm_resume_bus+37/92] [pci_pm_resume+39/64] [pci_pm_callback+61/72] [pm_send+69/120] [pm_se
nd_all+62/136] [<c8823930>] [<c8824083>] [sys_ioctl+637/724] [sys_sync+29/36] [syscall_call+7/11]
Oct 13 02:12:25 arwen kernel: Code: 0f 0b fb 00 92 9a 20 c0 8b 83 d0 00 00 00 85 c0 74 06 53 ff
Oct 13 02:17:45 arwen kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Stig
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