Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750815AbWBMDIB (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:08:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751168AbWBMDIB (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:08:01 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:26336 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750815AbWBMDH7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:07:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:05:20 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , James Bottomley , "Brown, Len" , "David S. Miller" , Greg KH , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Yu, Luming" , "Ben Castricum" , sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk, Helge Hafting , "Carlo E. Prelz" , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?B?QnJ1Y2ho5HVzZXI=?= , Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net, Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Patrizio Bassi , =?ISO-8859-1?B?Qmr2cm4=?= Nilsson , Andrey Borzenkov , "P. Christeas" , ghrt , jinhong hu , Andrew Vasquez , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Message-Id: <20060212190520.244fcaec.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3433 Lines: 89 We still have some serious bugs, several of which are in 2.6.15 as well: - The scsi_cmd leak, which I don't think is fixed. - The some-x86_64-boxes-use-GFP_DMA-from-bio-layer bug, which causes oom-killings. - The skbuff_head_cache leak, which has been around since at least 2.6.11. Another box-killer, but is seems very hard to hit. (mki@mozone.net, "the dreaded oom-killer (reproducable in 2.6.11 - 2.6.16-rc1) :(") - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6060: an apparent ACPI regression. - Nathan's "sysfs-related oops during module unload", which Greg seems to have under control. - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6049 - another acpi regression. We have the actual offending commit here. - A couple of random tty-related oopses reported by Jesper Juhl. We don't know why these happened - they appear to not be related to the tty buffering changes. - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6038, another box-killing acpi regression. - Various reports similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011, seemingly related to USB PCI quirk handling. - "Ben Castricum" reports that ppp has started exhibiting mysterious failures (again). - Nasty warnings from scsi about kobject-layer things being called from irq context. James has a push-it-to-process-context patch which sadly assumes kmalloc() is immortal, but no other fix seems to have offered itself. - In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5989, Sanjoy Mahajan has another regression, but he's off collecting more info. - Helge Hafting reports a usb printer regression - I don't know if that's still live? - "Carlo E. Prelz" has another USB/ehci regression ("ATI RS480-based motherboard: stuck while booting with kernel >= 2.6.15 rc1"). - Gerrit Bruchhuser seems to have an aic7xxx regression ("AHA-7850 doesn't detect scanner anymore") but he doesn't say which kernel got it right. - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5914 - a sata bug (which is quite unremarkable :(), but this one is reported to eat filesystems. - Patrizio Bassi has an alsa suspend regression ("alsa suspend/resume continues to fail for ens1370") - Bjorn Nilsson has an sk99lin regression ("3COM 3C940, does not work anymore after upgrade to 2.6.15") - Andrey Borzenkov has an acpi-cpufreq regression ("cannot unload acpi-cpufreq") - "P. Christeas" had an autofs regression ("Regression in Autofs, 2.6.15-git"), whic might be fixed now? - ghrt reports an alsa regression ("PROBLEM: SB Live! 5.1 (emu10k1, rev. 0a) doesn't work with 2.6.15") - jinhong hu reports what appears to be a qlogic regression ("kernel 2.6.15 scsi problem") - Benjamin LaHaise had an NFS problem ("NFS processes gettting stuck in D with currrent git"). These are clear regressions, reported in the last month by people who are willing to test patches. They're almost all in subsystems which have active and professional maintainers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/