2.6.36-rc3: Reported regressions from 2.6.35

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Sun Aug 29 15:24:40 PDT 2010


This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.35,
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 2.6.35, 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
  ----------------------------------------
  2010-08-30       21       16          15


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17341
Subject		: kdump regression compared to v2.6.35
Submitter	: CAI Qian <caiqian at redhat.com>
Date		: 2010-08-27 12:35 (3 days old)
Message-ID	: <2136707099.1405541282912500148.JavaMail.root at zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128291252612135&w=2
Handled-By	: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17331
Subject		: BUG: scheduling while atomic
Submitter	: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-27 7:59 (3 days old)
Message-ID	: <20100827075911.GA5966 at swordfish.minsk.epam.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128289602925505&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17321
Subject		: i386 WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 _local_bh_enable_ip+0x2f/0x7e
Submitter	: Arno Schuring <aelschuring at hotmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-27 20:04 (3 days old)
Message-ID	: <4C781A3A.4010707 at hotmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128294076822387&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17311
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc2-git4 - INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected
Submitter	: Miles Lane <miles.lane at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-27 1:56 (3 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/5a652052fedbd7869572c757dd2ffc2ed420c69d
Message-ID	: <AANLkTinHbEW36D5R9NSrGgfbOC0Hri3Tg-fA0iR92Udi at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128287422106267&w=2
Handled-By	: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17301
Subject		: i915: 2.6.36-rc2 wrong resolution on gdm start
Submitter	: Ivan Bulatovic <combuster at gmx.com>
Date		: 2010-08-24 1:00 (6 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/9d0498a2bf7455159b317f19531a3e5db2ecc9c4
Message-ID	: <1282611655.2177.19.camel at localhost.localdomain>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128261168202306&w=2
Handled-By	: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17151
Subject		: i915: 2.6.36-rc2 hoses my Intel display
Submitter	: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
Date		: 2010-08-23 17:01 (7 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/32aad86fe88e7323d4fc5e9e423abcee0d55a03d
Message-ID	: <20100823110145.08eb72fd at bike.lwn.net>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128258293327326&w=2
Handled-By	: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17131
Subject		: WARN with 3c905 boomerang NIC
Submitter	: Doug Nazar <nazard.lkml at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-22 6:35 (8 days old)
Message-ID	: <4C70C516.5020404 at gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128245894300623&w=2
Handled-By	: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17061
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc1 on zaurus: bluetooth regression
Submitter	: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
Date		: 2010-08-21 15:24 (9 days old)
Message-ID	: <20100821152445.GA1536 at ucw.cz>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128240433828087&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17041
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc1 hangs during XFS barrier test for /
Submitter	: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml at googlemail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-20 (10 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTim1PXibiY98GUdMj-UZLTav+n7GAnJ0Mjn6_5a3 at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128231691708710&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17021
Subject		: [REGRESSION] [2.6.36-rc1] [DRM INTEL] [drm:intel_calculate_wm] *ERROR* Insufficient FIFO for plane, expect flickering: entries required = 36, available = 28.
Submitter	: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-18 18:46 (12 days old)
Message-ID	: <201008182046.37732.maciej.rutecki at gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128215721507666&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16971
Subject		: qla4xxx compile failure on 32-bit PowerPC: missing readq and writeq
Submitter	: Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee>
Date		: 2010-08-19 21:03 (11 days old)
Message-ID	: <alpine.SOC.1.00.1008192359310.19654 at math.ut.ee>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128225184900892&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16961
Subject		: kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1978
Submitter	: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-19 9:54 (11 days old)
Message-ID	: <20100819095429.GA5201 at swordfish.minsk.epam.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128221169606214&w=2
Handled-By	: Avi Kivity <avi at redhat.com>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16951
Subject		: hackbench regression with 2.6.36-rc1
Submitter	: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang at linux.intel.com>
Date		: 2010-08-18 6:18 (12 days old)
Message-ID	: <1282112318.21202.8.camel at ymzhang.sh.intel.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128211235904910&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16881
Subject		: [REGRESSION, Radeon-KMS] 2.6.36-rc1,2 - missing textures in 0 A.D.
Submitter	:  <trapdoor6 at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-24 12:20 (6 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626
Subject		: Machine hangs with EIP at skb_copy_and_csum_dev
Submitter	: Plamen Petrov <pvp-lsts at fs.uni-ruse.bg>
Date		: 2010-08-19 09:57 (11 days old)
Handled-By	:  Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com>


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629
Subject		: fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code (resend)
Submitter	: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-08-18 9:11 (12 days old)
Message-ID	: <20100818091157.GA5238 at swordfish.minsk.epam.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128212276618793&w=2
Handled-By	: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
Patch		: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128212276618793&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 2.6.35,
unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16444

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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