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 ---------------------------------------- 2011-02-21 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=29402 Subject : kernel panics while running ffsb scalability workloads on 2.6.38-rc1 through -rc5 Submitter : Eric Whitney eric.whitney@hp.com Date : 2011-02-18 21:47 (4 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29322 Subject : System lockup with 2.6.38-rc4+ Submitter : Chris Clayton chris2553@googlemail.com Date : 2011-02-14 17:31 (8 days old) Message-ID : 201102141731.29331.chris2553@googlemail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129770471724602&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29252 Subject : IPv6 doesn't work in a kvm guest. Submitter : Kusanagi Kouichi slash@ac.auone-net.jp Date : 2011-02-16 13:03 (6 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29232 Subject : [VT-d] VT-d device passthrough fail to guest Submitter : xudong xudong.hao@intel.com Date : 2011-02-16 08:56 (6 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29202 Subject : 2.6.38-rc: fuse BUG, maybe related to detaching external usb drive without umounting Submitter : Florian Mickler florian@mickler.org Date : 2011-02-15 22:05 (7 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29022 Subject : [REGRESSION? 2.6.38-rc4] nouveau NV50 screen freeze Submitter : Marc marc@osknowledge.org Date : 2011-02-13 12:29 (9 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28882 Subject : Screen corruption and GPU hangs Submitter : Ko Mi chaostya.test@hotmail.com Date : 2011-02-11 18:17 (11 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@xmission.com Date : 2011-02-08 9:41 (14 days old) Message-ID : m1ei7iamnn.fsf@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@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-08 22:22 (14 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28562 Subject : [BUG] usb problems in .38-rc3+ Submitter : Ed Tomlinson edt@aei.ca Date : 2011-02-05 19:17 (17 days old) Message-ID : 201102051417.58953.edt@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@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec Date : 2011-02-07 17:21 (15 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@linux.ee Date : 2011-02-01 22:00 (21 days old) Message-ID : alpine.SOC.1.00.1102012342200.25944@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@gmail.com Date : 2011-01-31 19:28 (22 days old) Message-ID : AANLkTi=uOpN0PwWdGh6iri-vJwuMS+WMPxmaZjv0-TrV@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@tao.ma Date : 2011-01-31 10:06 (22 days old) Message-ID : 4D46899B.80302@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@gnome.org Date : 2011-02-05 12:37 (17 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@schottelius.org Date : 2011-01-28 20:29 (25 days old) Message-ID : 20110128202905.GB3395@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@ti.com Date : 2011-01-10 15:33 (43 days old) Message-ID : a7a9bdaa5936630925fb7ffd1a1795b1@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=27382 Subject : ath5k phy0: gain calibration timeout Submitter : Nicolas Stransky Nico@stransky.cx Date : 2011-01-23 00:18 (30 days old) Handled-By : Nick Kossifidis mickflemm@gmail.com Patch : https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/530811/
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!