2.6.37-rc6-git4: Reported regressions 2.6.35 -> 2.6.36

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Sun Dec 19 04:41:20 PST 2010


This message contains a list of some post-2.6.35 regressions introduced before
2.6.36, 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 post-2.6.35 regressions, 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
  ----------------------------------------
  2010-12-19       98       28          23
  2010-12-05       95       34          31
  2010-11-19       92       38          34
  2010-10-17       70       27          27
  2010-10-10       56       16          15
  2010-10-03       52       16          14
  2010-09-26       46       15          13
  2010-09-20       38       15          15
  2010-09-12       28       14          13
  2010-08-30       21       16          15


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24752
Subject		: Random crashes easily reproducible with make -j5 - intel i915 - kernel 2.6.36 on intel/nvidia hybrid graphics machine
Submitter	: Giacomo <delleceste at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-12-10 8:57 (10 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTimkQM94u9iz7FVVjehB0mwDwfkNwKhF2F2tYq-r at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129197146619176&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24392
Subject		: AGP aperture disabled, worked in 2.6.35
Submitter	: Stephen Kitt <steve at sk2.org>
Date		: 2010-12-06 06:31 (14 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/96576a9e1a0cdb8a43d3af5846be0948f52b4460


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24202
Subject		: [830] drm:intel_prepare_page_flip, *ERROR* Prepared flip multiple times
Submitter	: mkkot <marcin2006 at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-12-02 14:10 (18 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24022
Subject		: wireless no longer works after 1st update of 10.10 [rtl819xE:ERR in init_firmware()]
Submitter	: njin <marconifabio at ubuntu-it.org>
Date		: 2010-11-29 19:49 (21 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23812
Subject		: HAL does not provide battery information on RHEL5 and CentOS-5
Submitter	: Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
Date		: 2010-11-26 18:08 (24 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23302
Subject		: alsa stops working after one or more hibernate or suspend cycles
Submitter	: Werner Lemberg <wl at gnu.org>
Date		: 2010-11-19 16:21 (31 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22842
Subject		: iwl3945 suddenly stops working
Submitter	: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-11-14 11:14 (36 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22782
Subject		: 2.6.36: general protection fault during lockfs lockspace removal
Submitter	: nik at linuxbox.cz <nik at linuxbox.cz>
Date		: 2010-11-12 12:05 (38 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22172
Subject		: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_delay() returned strange values: delay 0 is less than avail 32
Submitter	: Tobias <devnull at plzk.org>
Date		: 2010-11-06 09:33 (44 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22092
Subject		: Kernel v2.6.36 trouble on USB disconnect
Submitter	: Ketil Froyn <ketil at froyn.name>
Date		: 2010-10-29 8:05 (52 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTik5qVxkEGVAA1PSOGk2KTW+ekHpSwttsQEWzWj+ at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128833956503607&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21662
Subject		: 2.6.35->2.6.36 regression, vanilla kernel panic, ppp or hrtimers crashing
Submitter	: Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat at nuclearcat.com>
Date		: 2010-10-25 9:22 (56 days old)
Message-ID	: <201010251222.37191.nuclearcat at nuclearcat.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128799855826011&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21652
Subject		: several problems with intel graphics since 2.6.36
Submitter	: Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>
Date		: 2010-10-27 14:32 (54 days old)
Message-ID	: <20101027143252.GA8676 at gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128818998630241&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21402
Subject		: [KVM] Noacpi Windows guest can not boot up on 32bit KVM host
Submitter	: xudong <xudong.hao at intel.com>
Date		: 2010-10-29 03:01 (52 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20332
Subject		: [LogFS] [2.6.36-rc7] Kernel BUG at lib/btree.c:465!
Submitter	: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124 at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-10-12 18:56 (69 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTimAbCZNhLQ5nADUiAC+7JpAeJBEmjFwdxyZ-FxO at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128690910501830&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20322
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc7: inconsistent lock state: inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-R} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage.
Submitter	: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Date		: 2010-10-11 20:10 (70 days old)
Message-ID	: <20101011201007.GA29707 at redhat.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128682782828453&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20232
Subject		: kworker consumes ~100% CPU on HP Elitebook 8540w running 2.6.36_rc6-git4
Submitter	: Ozan Caglayan <ozan at pardus.org.tr>
Date		: 2010-10-13 06:13 (68 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19632
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc6: modprobe Not tainted warning
Submitter	: Heinz Diehl <htd at fritha.org>
Date		: 2010-09-30 18:25 (81 days old)
Message-ID	: <20100930182516.GA15089 at fritha.org>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128587114004680&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19392
Subject		: WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c:3475 ath5k_bss_info_changed+0x44/0x168 [ath5k]()
Submitter	: Justin Mattock <justinmattock at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-09-28 22:30 (83 days old)
Message-ID	: <<AANLkTim5WCGKPvEkOkO_YnMF9pg8mvLfQoFBNUFpfa_k at mail.gmail.com>>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128571307018635&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19372
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc6: WARNING: at drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c:235 radeon_fence_wait+0x35a/0x3c0
Submitter	: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-09-29 21:29 (82 days old)
Message-ID	: <20100929212923.GA5578 at core2.telecom.by>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128579579400315&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19052
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc5-git1 -- [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
Submitter	: Miles Lane <miles.lane at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-09-22 23:47 (89 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTikWQjUQjFJU9MO1+XbSLAEE-GARz+S+Dz2Fgu4h at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128519926626322&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17121
Subject		: Two blank rectangles more than 10 cm long when booting
Submitter	: Eric Valette <eric.valette at free.fr>
Date		: 2010-08-26 17:24 (116 days old)


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 (121 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=16951
Subject		: hackbench regression with 2.6.36-rc1
Submitter	: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang at linux.intel.com>
Date		: 2010-08-18 6:18 (124 days old)
Message-ID	: <1282112318.21202.8.camel at ymzhang.sh.intel.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128211235904910&w=2


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

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21092
Subject		: Kernel 2.6.36 Bug during quotaon on reiserfs
Submitter	:  <markus.gapp at gmx.net>
Date		: 2010-10-24 16:57 (57 days old)
Handled-By	: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Patch		: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=35292


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20462
Subject		: 2.6.36-rc7-git2 - panic/GPF: e1000e/vlans?
Submitter	: Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist at linuxbox.cz>
Date		: 2010-10-15 7:10 (66 days old)
Message-ID	: <20101015071008.GA8714 at pcnci.linuxbox.cz>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128712984831303&w=2
Handled-By	: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
Patch		: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg146227.html


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20342
Subject		: [LogFS] [2.6.36-rc7] Deadlock in logfs_get_wblocks, hold and wait on same lock super->s_write_mutex
Submitter	: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124 at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-10-13 9:49 (68 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTinvsMxTxEbDEFmb5M-6fYjdRvErU==Zs7+qANkV at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128696335024718&w=2
Patch		: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/328682/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20162
Subject		: [LogFS][2.6.36.rc7+] Kernel BUG at readwrite.c:1193
Submitter	: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124 at gmail.com>
Date		: 2010-10-10 17:44 (71 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTi=JkcuWBPo+X-i+9o-BJFVqjea1J3e=Mr=HvAWF at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128673196203340&w=2
Handled-By	:  Prasad Gajanan Joshi <prasadjoshi124 at gmail.com>
Patch		: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20162#c1


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 (123 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
Patch		: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=128590267608876&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 introduced
between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36, 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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