2008-03-14 00:37:50

by Rafael J. Wysocki

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Subject: 2.6.25-rc5-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Some more entries have been closed recently.]

This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.24 reported since
2.6.25-rc1 was released, 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 2.6.24, 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.


Listed regressions statistics:

Date Total Pending Unresolved
----------------------------------------
2008-03-14 145 45 39
2008-03-12 143 51 41
2008-03-11 141 58 43
2008-03-10 138 66 47
2008-03-03 115 65 49
2008-02-25 90 51 39
2008-02-17 61 45 37


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

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9954
Subject : iwl3945: not only it periodically dies, it also BUG()s
Submitter : Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-05 22:44 (38 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/5/453
Handled-By : Chatre, Reinette <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9958
Subject : parisc compile error
Submitter : Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-08 01:12 (35 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/7/572
Handled-By : Kyle McMartin <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9962
Subject : mount: could not find filesystem
Submitter : Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-12 14:34 (31 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/12/91
Handled-By : Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9976
Subject : BUG: 2.6.25-rc1: iptables postrouting setup causes oops
Submitter : Ben Nizette <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-12 12:46 (31 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/12/148
Handled-By : Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9978
Subject : 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression
Submitter : Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-13 10:30 (30 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/128
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/12/52
Handled-By : Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[email protected]>
Balbir Singh <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9980
Subject : 2.6.25-rc1 on Sun Ultra 40- HPET clocksource which causes it to hang
Submitter : Jasper Bryant-Greene <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-13 12:25 (30 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/181
Handled-By : Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9983
Subject : PROBLEM: 2.6.25-rc1-git2 freezes when accessing external USB hard disk (ehci-hcd)
Submitter : Linas ?virblis <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-13 22:38 (30 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/566


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9984
Subject : problem with starting 2.6.25-rc1 and latest git
Submitter : Mariusz Kozlowski <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-13 23:16 (30 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/587


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9995
Subject : 2.6.25-rc1 regression - backlight controlls do not work - ThinkPad T61
Submitter : Lukas Hejtmanek <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-15 04:51 (28 days old)
Handled-By : Zhang Rui <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10011
Subject : The computer is blocked when X is started - unless max_cstate=2 - Acer Travelmate 4001 Lmi
Submitter : Fran?ois Valenduc <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-17 06:28 (26 days old)
Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10016
Subject : cobalt_btns.c &lt;-&gt; struct platform_device compile error
Submitter : Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-17 12:12 (26 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/293


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10017
Subject : cdev removal broke cobalt_btns.c compilation
Submitter : Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-17 12:14 (26 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/295


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10025
Subject : Current git very broken on the Dreamcast
Submitter : Adrian McMenamin <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-16 19:38 (27 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/16/196
Handled-By : Kristoffer Ericson <[email protected]>
Magnus Damm <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10027
Subject : 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression
Submitter : Bongani Hlope <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-17 09:36 (26 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/55
Handled-By : Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10033
Subject : mips yosemite_defconfig compile error
Submitter : Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-17 16:45 (26 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/383


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10041
Subject : 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails
Submitter : Romano Giannetti <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-18 11:56 (25 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/145
Handled-By : Ray Lee <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10051
Subject : Spurious messages at boot, eventually hangs the usb subsustem
Submitter : Jean-Luc Coulon <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-20 09:10 (23 days old)


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10061
Subject : Hang in md5_resync
Submitter : Steinar H. Gunderson <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-21 13:13 (22 days old)


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10065
Subject : 2.6.25-rc2 regression - hang on suspend
Submitter : Soeren Sonnenburg <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-19 12:59 (24 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/165
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/381
Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10067
Subject : TUNER_TDA8290=y, VIDEO_DEV=n build error
Submitter : Toralf F?rster <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-22 10:36 (21 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/262


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10082
Subject : [BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-git4 - Regression Kernel oops while running kernbench and tbench on powerpc
Submitter : Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-20 16:01 (23 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/218
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/71


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10084
Subject : 2.6.25-rc2-git4 BUG: sysfs_readdir
Submitter : Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-21 17:25 (22 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/21/212
Handled-By : Greg KH <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10086
Subject : 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang
Submitter : Anders Eriksson <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-22 17:51 (21 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/22/239
Handled-By : Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093
Subject : 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n - Apple
Submitter : Soeren Sonnenburg <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-23 18:55 (20 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&amp;m=120387537018467&amp;w=4
Handled-By : Pallipadi, Venkatesh <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10097
Subject : SMP BUG in __nf_conntrack_find
Submitter : Christian Casteyde <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-25 10:44 (18 days old)


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10117
Subject : 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot (pci=nommconf helps)
Submitter : Soeren Sonnenburg <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-23 18:55 (20 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10133
Subject : INFO: possible circular locking in the resume
Submitter : Zdenek Kabelac <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-27 (16 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/479
Handled-By : Gautham R Shenoy <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10146
Subject : 2.6.25-rc: complete lockup on boot/start of X (bisected)
Submitter : Marcin Slusarz <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-02 20:00 (12 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/2/91
Handled-By : Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10152
Subject : Clocksource tsc is always unstable with 2.6.25-* kernels and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y on my box
Submitter : Gabriel C <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-24 01:31 (19 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/380
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/281
Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10156
Subject : KVM &amp; Qemu crashed with infinite recursive kernel loop in the guest
Submitter : Zdenek Kabelac <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-28 11:25 (15 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/28/106


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10164
Subject : ntfs build failure on no-mmu
Submitter : Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-03 11:05 (11 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/1/179


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10172
Subject : INFO: inconsistent lock state
Submitter : Zdenek Kabelac <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-05 03:26 (9 days old)


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10190
Subject : [BUG] Linux-2.6.25-rc4 (and also in rc3) Compile Error
Submitter : Tarkan Erimer <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-05 05:01 (9 days old)
References : http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0803.0/1867.html


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10207
Subject : INFO: task mount:11202 blocked for more than 120 seconds
Submitter : Christian Kujau <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-07 21:32 (7 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/7/308
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/9/186
Handled-By : David Chinner <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10211
Subject : build #408 issue for v2.6.25-rc4-56-gd7fe321 in cx2341x_ctrl_get_menu
Submitter : Toralf F?rster <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-07 13:48 (7 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/7/168


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10232
Subject : intel mtrr fixups apparently broke display and e1000 probe
Submitter : Stephen Gran <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-12 08:37 (2 days old)


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10234
Subject : [regression] pciehp hang on hp ia64 rx6600
Submitter : Alex Chiang <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-12 00:47 (2 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/12/31
Handled-By : Mark Lord <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10235
Subject : [Regression: 2.6.25-rc5: Blank Screen: Intel 945]
Submitter : Justin Madru <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-12 12:02 (2 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/12/290
Handled-By : Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10238
Subject : netconsole still hangs
Submitter : Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-12 23:14 (2 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?t=120536379200004&amp;r=1&amp;w=2
Handled-By : David Miller <[email protected]>
Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>


Regressionn with patches
------------------------

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9969
Subject : 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?
Submitter : Chris Holvenstot <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-06 14:02 (37 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/6/100
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/82
Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/15/343


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10013
Subject : tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1
Submitter : Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-15 02:52 (28 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/14/546
Handled-By : Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
David Miller <[email protected]>
Zhang Yanmin <[email protected]
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/66
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/117
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/83


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10153
Subject : (regression) kernel/timeconst.h bugs with HZ=128
Submitter : David Brownell <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-02-26 19:32 (17 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/294
Handled-By : H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=15114&amp;action=view
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=15115&amp;action=view


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10186
Subject : SCSI_AIC94XX must depend on SCSI
Submitter : Toralf F?rster <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-06 19:09 (8 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=120483073617232&amp;w=2
Handled-By : Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=120483499725928&amp;w=2


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10210
Subject : [Regression] 2.6.25-rc4-git3: Handling of audio CDs broken on pata_ali
Submitter : Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-08 22:46 (6 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/8/123
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/69


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10229
Subject : revert &quot;ACPI: thermal fixup&quot;
Submitter : Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Date : 2008-03-10 18:50 (4 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&amp;m=120525801028947&amp;w=2
Handled-By : Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&amp;m=120525801028947&amp;w=2


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 2.6.24,
unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9832

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

Thanks,
Rafael


2008-03-14 01:33:57

by Johannes Weiner

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Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc5-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

Hi Rafael,

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> writes:

> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10164
> Subject : ntfs build failure on no-mmu
> Submitter : Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> Date : 2008-03-03 11:05 (11 days old)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/1/179

I found this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/13/6

Hannes

2008-03-14 01:40:27

by Linus Torvalds

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Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc5-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.24



On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10164
> > Subject : ntfs build failure on no-mmu
> > Submitter : Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> > Date : 2008-03-03 11:05 (11 days old)
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/1/179
>
> I found this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/13/6

Fixed slightly differently in mainline by Paul Mindt in commit
0738c4bb8f2a8bf15178f852494643b0981f578b ("nommu: Provide
is_vmalloc_addr() stub.")

Linus

2008-03-14 01:47:42

by Paul Mundt

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Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc5-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:36:37AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10025
> Subject : Current git very broken on the Dreamcast
> Submitter : Adrian McMenamin <[email protected]>
> Date : 2008-02-16 19:38 (27 days old)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/16/196
> Handled-By : Kristoffer Ericson <[email protected]>
> Magnus Damm <[email protected]>
>
I didn't realize this was on the regression list. This was fixed by
Magnus in 763a495a022ac26afb2940e768e86725c1c7e8c9.

2008-03-14 11:39:25

by Rafael J. Wysocki

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Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc5-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

On Friday, 14 of March 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10164
> > > Subject : ntfs build failure on no-mmu
> > > Submitter : Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> > > Date : 2008-03-03 11:05 (11 days old)
> > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/1/179
> >
> > I found this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/13/6
>
> Fixed slightly differently in mainline by Paul Mindt in commit
> 0738c4bb8f2a8bf15178f852494643b0981f578b ("nommu: Provide
> is_vmalloc_addr() stub.")

Thanks, closed.

Rafael