2.6.38-git18: Reported regressions from 2.6.37

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Sun Mar 27 13:01:24 PDT 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
  ----------------------------------------
  2011-03-27       88       26          26
  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=31982
Subject		: XFS memory allocation deadlock in 2.6.38
Submitter	: Sean Noonan <Sean.Noonan at twosigma.com>
Date		: 2011-03-21 16:19 (7 days old)
Message-ID	: <081DDE43F61F3D43929A181B477DCA95639B52FD at MSXAOA6.twosigma.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130072585111310&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31572
Subject		: firewire crash at boot
Submitter	: Pavel Kysilka <goldenfish at linuxsoft.cz>
Date		: 2011-03-21 12:40 (7 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31532
Subject		: 2.6.38: Quota over NFS4
Submitter	: Adam Lackorzynski <adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Date		: 2011-03-17 13:32 (11 days old)
Message-ID	: <20110317133247.GB6424 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130036878203485&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31522
Subject		: i915/kms regression after 2.6.38-rc8 (was: Re: Linux 2.6.38)
Submitter	: Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-03-16 17:30 (12 days old)
Message-ID	: <201103161830.52231 at rk-nord.at>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130029706416659&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31452
Subject		: ath9k: throughput issue in 802.11n and also IBSS mode
Submitter	: Richard Schütz <r.schtz at t-online.de>
Date		: 2011-03-19 19:06 (9 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31402
Subject		: Diminished brightness at startup
Submitter	: Guilherme Salazar <guilhermesalazar at ymail.com>
Date		: 2011-03-18 16:29 (10 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31322
Subject		: 2.6.38-rc echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches repairs mplayer distortions
Submitter	: Hans de Bruin <jmdebruin at xmsnet.nl>
Date		: 2011-03-14 21:34 (14 days old)
Message-ID	: <4D7E89E7.3080505 at xmsnet.nl>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130014181919827&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31102
Subject		: Corrupted display, unusable X-Server after using Chromium for some minutes.
Submitter	: Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer at cs.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date		: 2011-03-15 03:31 (13 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31012
Subject		: WARNING: Perf: bad frame pointer = (null), 2.6.38-rc8
Submitter	: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
Date		: 2011-03-12 19:08 (16 days old)
Message-ID	: <20110312140851.52420149 at katamari>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129995721014931&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31002
Subject		: acer-wmi: rfkill and bluetooth enabling doesn't work as in 2.6.37
Submitter	: Oldřich Jedlička <oldium.pro at seznam.cz>
Date		: 2011-03-10 18:37 (18 days old)
Message-ID	: <201103101937.01864.oldium.pro at seznam.cz>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=129978235612140&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30992
Subject		: 2.6.38-rc7: Some strange soft-lockup
Submitter	: Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion at inhex.net>
Date		: 2011-03-06 14:01 (22 days old)
Message-ID	: <20110306140104.GA7700 at laptop.local>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129942161205739&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30852
Subject		: Seldom errors after suspend/resume causing problems
Submitter	: Mehmet Giritli <mehmet at giritli.eu>
Date		: 2011-03-10 10:53 (18 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30612
Subject		: 2.6.38-rc7, iwlagn crash
Submitter	: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-03-04 3:27 (24 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTin0PGOfHr3AvQk-BAhyMY7ihYMU1-wX4RJG=1YT at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129920925514892&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30582
Subject		: WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:536 ath_stoprecv+0xc8/0xda [ath9k]()
Submitter	: Justin Mattock <justinmattock at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-03-03 5:47 (25 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTik9To0Rkq2FRqQFB2wNu0kyJ7CzyBek2jBp36Cb at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129913127722786&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30572
Subject		: 2.6.38-rc7, OOM behaviour?
Submitter	: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren at gmail.com>
Date		: 2011-03-02 19:33 (26 days old)
Message-ID	: <AANLkTine5sru_JsK1LmRVa9fwxjPsaDdZUTFPCBi6A+c at mail.gmail.com>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129909440018096&w=2


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30142
Subject		: Kernel Oops after hibernation - lenovo t500
Submitter	: Willi Mann <foss-ml at wm1.at>
Date		: 2011-03-01 08:12 (27 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 (29 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 (35 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=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 (37 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=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 (48 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 (48 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 (51 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 (49 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 (55 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=28422
Subject		: kref and apparmor panic in 2.6.38-rc2.
Submitter	: Tao Ma <tm at tao.ma>
Date		: 2011-01-31 10:06 (56 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=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 (59 days old)
Message-ID	: <20110128202905.GB3395 at schottelius.org>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129624657425949&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 2.6.37,
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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