This message contains a list of some post-2.6.36 regressions introduced before 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 post-2.6.36 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 ---------------------------------------- 2011-03-06 132 28 23 2011-02-21 128 35 26 2011-02-13 126 36 30 2011-02-03 118 36 31 2010-12-30 85 32 26 2010-12-19 73 28 24 2010-12-03 55 25 19 2010-11-19 39 29 25
Unresolved regressions ----------------------
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28812 Subject : DVI attached monitor is turned off while booting linux 2.6.37 and higher Submitter : Markus Heinz markus.heinz@uni-dortmund.de Date : 2011-02-10 19:33 (25 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28772 Subject : oops in nfs_revalidate_mapping Submitter : Daniel Poelzleithner bugzilla.kernel.org@poelzi.org Date : 2011-02-10 13:59 (25 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28662 Subject : i915 in kernel 2.6.38-rc4, high number of wakeups Submitter : Kan-Ru Chen kanru@kanru.info Date : 2011-02-09 07:06 (26 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28622 Subject : radeon video lockup Submitter : Daniel Poelzleithner bugzilla.kernel.org@poelzi.org Date : 2011-02-08 17:48 (27 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28612 Subject : regular soft lockup Submitter : Alexandre Demers alexandre.f.demers@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-08 16:39 (27 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28582 Subject : whole system hang when start X Submitter : Gu Rui chaos.proton@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-08 08:33 (27 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/d5bb081b027b520f9e59b4fb8faea83a136ec15e
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28332 Subject : [RV620] Can not re-enable LVDS after using HDMI only Submitter : Rafał Miłecki zajec5@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-05 22:42 (30 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27892 Subject : SNB: GPU hang with Slip xscreensaver Submitter : Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Date : 2011-01-31 12:06 (35 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27842 Subject : [regression?] hang with 2.6.37 on a BTRFS test machine Submitter : Martin Steigerwald Martin@lichtvoll.de Date : 2011-01-23 12:06 (43 days old) Message-ID : <201101231306.23069.Martin@lichtvoll.de> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129578445613283&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27642 Subject : 2.6.37 says WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1287 setup_local_APIC+0x18f/0x263() Submitter : Rob Landley rlandley@parallels.com Date : 2011-01-18 13:11 (48 days old) Message-ID : 4D359188.3040408@parallels.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129535632319892&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27152 Subject : VGA output broken at cold boot Submitter : Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Date : 2011-01-20 13:26 (46 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27132 Subject : flush-btrfs gets into an infinite loop Submitter : Artem Anisimov aanisimov@inbox.ru Date : 2011-01-20 11:51 (46 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26802 Subject : b43: Suspend failed Submitter : Patrick Matthäi patrick@linux-dev.org Date : 2011-01-15 18:56 (51 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26612 Subject : BUG in fs/inode.c:429 Submitter : Florian Kriener florian@kriener.org Date : 2011-01-06 16:35 (60 days old) Message-ID : 201101061735.40060.florian@kriener.org References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129433235223735&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26582 Subject : NULL pointer dereference on pipe creation Submitter : Ferenc Wágner wferi@niif.hu Date : 2011-01-12 13:30 (54 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26112 Subject : [LogFS] [2.6.37-rc8+] Kernel BUG at logfs/readwrite.c:297! Submitter : Prasad Joshi prasadjoshi124@gmail.com Date : 2011-01-02 21:22 (64 days old) Message-ID : AANLkTinpoM8FuG8UkF88xs_V37dz_wgE8t-s0JPzaS-w@mail.gmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129400335910652&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26102 Subject : [2.6.37-rc8] BUG kmalloc-256: Poison overwritten. Submitter : Pawel Sikora pluto@agmk.net Date : 2010-12-30 15:08 (67 days old) Message-ID : 201012301608.40859.pluto@agmk.net References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129372388925679&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26042 Subject : BUG: NULL pointer dereference at shrink_dcache_parent Submitter : Ferenc Wágner wferi@niif.hu Date : 2011-01-03 10:49 (63 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25832 Subject : kernel crashes upon resume if usb devices are removed when suspended Submitter : rocko rockorequin@hotmail.com Date : 2010-12-29 11:47 (68 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25732 Subject : i915 turns picture green when display switched off-on Submitter : Tõnu Raitviir jussuf@linux.ee Date : 2010-12-27 22:14 (70 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/3c17fe4b8f40a112a85758a9ab2aebf772bdd647 Handled-By : Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24822 Subject : Embedded DisplayPort is detected wrongly on HP ProBook 5320m Submitter : Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Date : 2010-12-13 11:09 (84 days old) Handled-By : Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22942 Subject : [2.6.37-rc1, OOM] virtblk: OOM in do_virtblk_request() Submitter : Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com Date : 2010-11-05 1:30 (122 days old) Message-ID : 20101105013003.GE13830@dastard References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128892062917641&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22642 Subject : 2.6.37-rc1: Disk takes 10 seconds to resume - MacBook2,1 Submitter : Tobias devnull@plzk.org Date : 2010-11-10 19:33 (117 days old)
Regressions with patches ------------------------
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30322 Subject : BUG in xs_tcp_setup_socket Submitter : Ben Hutchings bhutchings@solarflare.com Date : 2011-03-01 20:34 (6 days old) Patch : http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/38949
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29722 Subject : kworker consumes ~100% CPU on HP Elitebook 8540w after resume Submitter : Ortwin Glück odi@odi.ch Date : 2011-02-23 11:49 (12 days old) Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki rjw@sisk.pl Patch : https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/604371/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27202 Subject : Remote control of saa7134-based tv card "ASUSTeK P7131 Hybrid" stopped working in 2.6.37 Submitter : acaizzo@gmail.com Date : 2011-01-20 17:23 (46 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/4651918a4afdd49bdea21d2f919b189ef17a6399 Handled-By : Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@redhat.com Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=44532
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25922 Subject : IdeaPad Y530 brightness keys not functioning Submitter : Tomasz tm.temp@gmx.com Date : 2010-12-30 12:48 (67 days old) Handled-By : Ike Panhc ikepanhc@gmail.com Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=48702
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24982 Subject : Inconsistent DPMS handling with 2.6.37 DRM Submitter : Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Date : 2010-12-16 16:32 (81 days old) Handled-By : Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Keith Packard keithp@keithp.com Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=40392 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/530921/
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 2.6.36 and 2.6.37, unresolved as well as resolved, at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21782
Please let the tracking team know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to the list in there.
Thanks!