2.6.38-rc7-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.37

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Sun Mar 6 04:08:06 PST 2011


This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.37,
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 regressions from 2.6.37, 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
  ----------------------------------------
  2011-03-06       70       27          26
  2011-02-21       51       18          17
  2011-02-12       39       20          18
  2011-02-03       19       11           7


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30472
Subject		: 2.6.38-post-rc7 with radeon kms: reproducably locks up hard when using desktop cube of kwin
Submitter	: Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de>
Date		: 2011-03-05 15:10:24 (2 days old)
Message-ID	: <201103051510.35057.Martin at lichtvoll.de>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129933425306804&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30462
Subject		: High cpu usage when someone sends many ipv6 udp packages
Submitter	: Ernst Sjöstrand <ernstp at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-03-05 01:10 (2 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30142
Subject		: Kernel Oops after hibernation
Submitter	: Willi Mann <foss-ml at wm1.at>
Date		: 2011-03-01 08:12 (6 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30072
Subject		: USB-to-serial problems in 2.6.37.1+ (pl2303)
Submitter	:  <akwatts at ymail.com>
Date		: 2011-02-28 12:39 (7 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30062
Subject		: Huge amounts of "HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for /dev/sr0" messages during boot
Submitter	: Bernd Eggink <monoped at sudrala.de>
Date		: 2011-02-28 10:52 (7 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30032
Subject		: r8169: 60 seconds delay when resuming from suspend
Submitter	: Guillaume Ayoub <xovni at wanadoo.fr>
Date		: 2011-02-27 16:52 (8 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29992
Subject		: boot hang 2.6.37.1 regression w/ intel_idle and CONFIG_NO_HZ=n - asus p7p55d le
Submitter	: De Ganseman Amaury <amaury.deganseman at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-02-27 10:38 (8 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29952
Subject		: btrfs as root filesystems hangs on mount after d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7
Submitter	: Asbjørn Sannes <ace at sannes.org>
Date		: 2011-02-26 15:59 (9 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29902
Subject		: System suspend failed after 1-2 successful resumes
Submitter	: Alex Terekhov <a.terekhov at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-02-25 22:24 (10 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29852
Subject		: 2.6.38-rc5: nfsd: page allocation failure. spinlock trylock failure on UP
Submitter	: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-02-21 20:33 (14 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTi=14N_c_B7mLY0H8Dt8pte6C0mjFnVuC37e44Hs at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129832042402668&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29812
Subject		: Brightness levels too low on Dell Inspiron 13" Intel HD 4 Series
Submitter	: Niklas Schnelle <niklas at komani.de>
Date		: 2011-02-24 10:24 (11 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/951f3512dba5bd44cda3e5ee22b4b522e4bb09fb


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29672
Subject		: [regression][ALSA][hda-conexant][2.6.38-rcX] external microphone sound too quiet
Submitter	: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com>
Date		: 2011-02-19 6:02 (16 days old)
Message-ID	: <474630.25335.qm at smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129809536502092&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29312
Subject		: Unmounting fails even after the underlying device is long gone
Submitter	: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-02-17 19:20 (18 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29252
Subject		: IPv6 doesn't work in a kvm guest.
Submitter	: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash at ac.auone-net.jp>
Date		: 2011-02-16 13:03 (19 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29022
Subject		: [REGRESSION? 2.6.38-rc4] nouveau NV50/NVA8 screen freeze
Submitter	: Marc Koschewski <marc at osknowledge.org>
Date		: 2011-02-13 12:29 (22 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28882
Subject		: Screen corruption and GPU hangs
Submitter	: Ko Mi <chaostya.test at hotmail.com>
Date		: 2011-02-11 18:17 (24 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28842
Subject		: 2.6.38-rc3 regression ipv6 TFTP download with curl failing in getpeername?
Submitter	: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date		: 2011-02-08 9:41 (27 days old)
Message-ID	: <m1ei7iamnn.fsf at fess.ebiederm.org>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129715811421534&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28642
Subject		: ACPI broken on DELL Latitude E6410 in 2.6.38-rc3
Submitter	: Adam Kovari <kovariadam at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-02-08 22:22 (27 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28562
Subject		: [BUG] usb problems in .38-rc3+
Submitter	: Ed Tomlinson <edt at aei.ca>
Date		: 2011-02-05 19:17 (30 days old)
Message-ID	: <201102051417.58953.edt at aei.ca>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129693391417607&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28522
Subject		: Unable to mount FAT-formatted floppy on /dev/fd0, plus WARN_ON when using /dev/fd0u1440
Submitter	: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci at ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Date		: 2011-02-07 17:21 (28 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28452
Subject		: 2.6.38-rc3 regression on parisc: segfaults
Submitter	: Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee>
Date		: 2011-02-01 22:00 (34 days old)
Message-ID	: <alpine.SOC.1.00.1102012342200.25944 at math.ut.ee>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129659763426600&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28432
Subject		: khugepaged: gets stuck when writing to USB flash, 2.6.38-rc2
Submitter	: Jindřich Makovička <makovick at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-01-31 19:28 (35 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTi=uOpN0PwWdGh6iri-vJwuMS+WMPxmaZjv0-TrV at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129650210516627&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28422
Subject		: kref and apparmor panic in 2.6.38-rc2.
Submitter	: Tao Ma <tm at tao.ma>
Date		: 2011-01-31 10:06 (35 days old)
Message-ID	: <4D46899B.80302 at tao.ma>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129646840303149&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28262
Subject		: Slow resume from suspend/hibernate on Dell Inspiron M301Z
Submitter	: Luca Ferretti <lferrett at gnome.org>
Date		: 2011-02-05 12:37 (30 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28102
Subject		: New display errors in 2.6.38-rc2-00175-g6fb1b30
Submitter	: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel-20110117 at schottelius.org>
Date		: 2011-01-28 20:29 (38 days old)
Message-ID	: <20110128202905.GB3395 at schottelius.org>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129624657425949&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27022
Subject		: [REPORT] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, init/1
Submitter	: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
Date		: 2011-01-10 15:33 (56 days old)
Message-ID	: <a7a9bdaa5936630925fb7ffd1a1795b1 at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129467294808655&w=2


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402
Subject		: kernel panics while running ffsb scalability workloads on 2.6.38-rc1 through -rc5
Submitter	: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney at hp.com>
Date		: 2011-02-18 21:47 (17 days old)
Handled-By	: Lukas Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com>
Patch		: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=49642


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 2.6.37,
unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27352

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

Thanks!



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