2007-05-10 12:04:33

by Michal Piotrowski

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Subject: 2.6.21-gitX: known regressions

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.21-gitX.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions



Unclassified:

Subject : 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs (after suspend/resume?)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/9/410
Submitter : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Handled-By : David Chinner <[email protected]>
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : Current -git kernel kills X
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/8/667
Submitter : Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Status : Unknown



Block devices:

Subject : BUG in loop.ko
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/9/510
Submitter : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Status : Unknown



Networking:

Subject : panic with e1000 driver on HP Integrity servers
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8455
Submitter : Doug Chapman <[email protected]>
Caused-By : Auke Kok <[email protected]>
commit e0aac5a289b1dacbc94bd9ae8c449bcdf9ab508c
Status : Unknown



Timers/NOHZ:

Subject : 2.6.21-git4 BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/511
Submitter : Michal Piotrowski <[email protected]>
Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Status : problem is being debugged



Regards,
Michal

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Michal K. K. Piotrowski
Kernel Monkeys
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2007-05-11 01:12:32

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: 2.6.21-gitX: known regressions

On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:04:13 +0200
Michal Piotrowski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.21-gitX.
>
> Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
> http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
>
>
>
> Unclassified:
>
> Subject : 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs (after suspend/resume?)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/9/410
> Submitter : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
> Handled-By : David Chinner <[email protected]>
> Status : problem is being debugged
>
> Subject : Current -git kernel kills X
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/8/667
> Submitter : Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
> Status : Unknown
>
>
>
> Block devices:
>
> Subject : BUG in loop.ko
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/9/510
> Submitter : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
> Status : Unknown
>
>
>
> Networking:
>
> Subject : panic with e1000 driver on HP Integrity servers
> References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8455
> Submitter : Doug Chapman <[email protected]>
> Caused-By : Auke Kok <[email protected]>
> commit e0aac5a289b1dacbc94bd9ae8c449bcdf9ab508c
> Status : Unknown
>
>
>
> Timers/NOHZ:
>
> Subject : 2.6.21-git4 BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/511
> Submitter : Michal Piotrowski <[email protected]>
> Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Status : problem is being debugged
>

Please also consider:

Subject: libata reset-seq merge broke sata_sil on sh
Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8462] New: applications under wine freezes

But we have many many more regressions which are in 2.6.21.x, only nobody's
tracking those. Nobody seems to be fixing them either. Probably
everyone's busy on the 2.6.14 regressions.

2007-05-11 01:24:52

by Kok, Auke

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Subject: Re: 2.6.21-gitX: known regressions

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:04:13 +0200
> Michal Piotrowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.21-gitX.
>>
>> Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
>> http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
>>
>>
>> Networking:
>>
>> Subject : panic with e1000 driver on HP Integrity servers
>> References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8455
>> Submitter : Doug Chapman <[email protected]>
>> Caused-By : Auke Kok <[email protected]>
>> commit e0aac5a289b1dacbc94bd9ae8c449bcdf9ab508c
>> Status : Unknown

We're trying to reproduce this in our labs here but that piece of code has been
extensively tested on various platforms and architectures, so I'm a bit
surprised about it. I've asked for more info on the bugzilla as well.

So, this is being worked on actively.

Cheers,

Auke