[NOTE: Florian Mickler has joined the regression tracking team. He is going to browse the list periodically to close fixed regressions, add patches etc. So, when the listed regressions you care about are fixed, please report that to Florian. If there's a working patch for a regression you care about, please report that to him too.]
This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.35, 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 2.6.35, 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 ---------------------------------------- 2010-09-12 28 14 13 2010-08-30 21 16 15
Unresolved regressions ----------------------
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17952 Subject : bdi-default hung waiting for kthread_stop to finish Submitter : Jeff Layton jlayton@redhat.com Date : 2010-09-02 18:55 (11 days old) Message-ID : 20100902145509.28e4f998@tlielax.poochiereds.net References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128345371904504&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17752 Subject : 2.6.36-rc3: inconsistent lock state (iprune_sem, shrink_icache_memory) Submitter : Stefan Richter stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Date : 2010-09-01 6:37 (12 days old) Message-ID : tkrat.ed8eda6bc8ffe64e@s5r6.in-berlin.de References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128332308528119&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17722 Subject : 2.6.36-rc3: WARNING: at net/mac80211/scan.c:269 ieee80211_scan_completed Submitter : Thomas Meyer thomas@m3y3r.de Date : 2010-08-31 20:14 (13 days old) Message-ID : 201008312214.52473.thomas@m3y3r.de References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128328580504227&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17361 Subject : Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP in jbd2_journal_get_write_access Submitter : Christian Casteyde casteyde.christian@free.fr Date : 2010-08-29 19:59 (15 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17341 Subject : kdump regression compared to v2.6.35 Submitter : CAI Qian caiqian@redhat.com Date : 2010-08-27 12:35 (17 days old) Message-ID : 2136707099.1405541282912500148.JavaMail.root@zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128291252612135&w=2 Handled-By : Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17331 Subject : BUG: scheduling while atomic Submitter : Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Date : 2010-08-27 7:59 (17 days old) Message-ID : 20100827075911.GA5966@swordfish.minsk.epam.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128289602925505&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17321 Subject : i386 WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 _local_bh_enable_ip+0x2f/0x7e Submitter : Arno Schuring aelschuring@hotmail.com Date : 2010-08-27 20:04 (17 days old) Message-ID : 4C781A3A.4010707@hotmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128294076822387&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17311 Subject : 2.6.36-rc2-git4 - INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected Submitter : Miles Lane miles.lane@gmail.com Date : 2010-08-27 1:56 (17 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/5a652052fedbd7869572c757dd2ffc2ed420c69d Message-ID : AANLkTinHbEW36D5R9NSrGgfbOC0Hri3Tg-fA0iR92Udi@mail.gmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128287422106267&w=2 Handled-By : Johannes Berg johannes@sipsolutions.net
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17131 Subject : WARN with 3c905 boomerang NIC Submitter : Doug Nazar nazard.lkml@gmail.com Date : 2010-08-22 6:35 (22 days old) Message-ID : 4C70C516.5020404@gmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128245894300623&w=2 Handled-By : David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17061 Subject : 2.6.36-rc1 on zaurus: bluetooth regression Submitter : Pavel Machek pavel@ucw.cz Date : 2010-08-21 15:24 (23 days old) Message-ID : 20100821152445.GA1536@ucw.cz References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128240433828087&w=2
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@linux.ee Date : 2010-08-19 21:03 (25 days old) Message-ID : alpine.SOC.1.00.1008192359310.19654@math.ut.ee References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128225184900892&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16961 Subject : kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1978 Submitter : Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Date : 2010-08-19 9:54 (25 days old) Message-ID : <20100819095429.GA5201@swordfish.minsk.epam.com> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128221169606214&w=2 Handled-By : Avi Kivity avi@redhat.com
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16951 Subject : hackbench regression with 2.6.36-rc1 Submitter : Zhang, Yanmin yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com Date : 2010-08-18 6:18 (26 days old) Message-ID : 1282112318.21202.8.camel@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=17742 Subject : 2.6.36-rc2-git5: Oops in snd_pcm_substream_proc_status_read() Submitter : Chuck Ebbert cebbert@redhat.com Date : 2010-09-01 8:19 (12 days old) Message-ID : 20100901041924.23a8a865@katamari References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128332930703451&w=2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628404 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628404#c5 Handled-By : Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Patch : http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2010-September/031275.h...
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 2.6.35, 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!