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 ---------------------------------------- 2011-03-06 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=30472 Subject : 2.6.38-post-rc7 with radeon kms: reproducably locks up hard when using desktop cube of kwin Submitter : Martin Steigerwald Martin@lichtvoll.de Date : 2011-03-05 15:10:24 (2 days old) Message-ID : 201103051510.35057.Martin@lichtvoll.de References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129933425306804&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30462 Subject : High cpu usage when someone sends many ipv6 udp packages Submitter : Ernst Sjöstrand ernstp@gmail.com Date : 2011-03-05 01:10 (2 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30142 Subject : Kernel Oops after hibernation Submitter : Willi Mann foss-ml@wm1.at Date : 2011-03-01 08:12 (6 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30072 Subject : USB-to-serial problems in 2.6.37.1+ (pl2303) Submitter : akwatts@ymail.com Date : 2011-02-28 12:39 (7 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30062 Subject : Huge amounts of "HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for /dev/sr0" messages during boot Submitter : Bernd Eggink monoped@sudrala.de Date : 2011-02-28 10:52 (7 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30032 Subject : r8169: 60 seconds delay when resuming from suspend Submitter : Guillaume Ayoub xovni@wanadoo.fr Date : 2011-02-27 16:52 (8 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@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-27 10:38 (8 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29952 Subject : btrfs as root filesystems hangs on mount after d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7 Submitter : Asbjørn Sannes ace@sannes.org Date : 2011-02-26 15:59 (9 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29902 Subject : System suspend failed after 1-2 successful resumes Submitter : Alex Terekhov a.terekhov@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-25 22:24 (10 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@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-21 20:33 (14 days old) Message-ID : AANLkTi=14N_c_B7mLY0H8Dt8pte6C0mjFnVuC37e44Hs@mail.gmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129832042402668&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29812 Subject : Brightness levels too low on Dell Inspiron 13" Intel HD 4 Series Submitter : Niklas Schnelle niklas@komani.de Date : 2011-02-24 10:24 (11 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/951f3512dba5bd44cda3e5ee22b4b522e4bb09fb
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@rogers.com Date : 2011-02-19 6:02 (16 days old) Message-ID : 474630.25335.qm@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=29312 Subject : Unmounting fails even after the underlying device is long gone Submitter : Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@gmail.com Date : 2011-02-17 19:20 (18 days old)
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 (19 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29022 Subject : [REGRESSION? 2.6.38-rc4] nouveau NV50/NVA8 screen freeze Submitter : Marc Koschewski marc@osknowledge.org Date : 2011-02-13 12:29 (22 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 (24 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 (27 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 (27 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 (30 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 (28 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 (34 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 (35 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 (35 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 (30 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 (38 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 (56 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=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 (17 days old) Handled-By : Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=49642
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!