2.6.31-rc5-git5: Reported regressions 2.6.29 -> 2.6.30

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-08-09T21:07:11Z

This message contains a list of some regressions introduced between 2.6.29 and
2.6.30, for which there are no fixes in the mainline I know of. If any of them
have been fixed already, please let me know.

If you know of any other unresolved regressions introduced between 2.6.29
and 2.6.30, please let me know either and I'll add them to the list.
Also, please let me 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
----------------------------------------
2009-08-10 148 39 37
2009-08-02 145 44 39
2009-07-27 143 48 45
2009-07-07 138 50 46
2009-06-29 133 46 43
2009-06-07 110 35 31
2009-05-31 100 32 27
2009-05-24 92 34 27
2009-05-16 81 36 33
2009-04-25 55 36 26
2009-04-17 37 35 28

Unresolved regressions
----------------------

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13949
Subject : XFS regression
Submitter : Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Date : 2009-08-08 8:39 (2 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124972079229959&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13945
Subject : Kernel freezes dual pentium-3 system
Submitter : Martin Rogge <marogge@onlinehome.de>
Date : 2009-08-03 16:25 (7 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124931667320530&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13898
Subject : Intel 3945ABG - problems on 2.6.30.X
Submitter : dienet <dienet@poczta.fm>
Date : 2009-07-31 15:17 (10 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124905346729959&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13797
Subject : iBook G4 doesn't suspend since 2ed8d2b3a8
Submitter : Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Date : 2009-07-18 20:18 (23 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13795
Subject : abnormal boot and no suspend due to 'async' (fastboot)
Submitter : Rafal Kaczynski <fscnoboot@wp.pl>
Date : 2009-07-18 17:19 (23 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13780
Subject : NULL pointer dereference loading powernowk8
Submitter : Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Date : 2009-07-15 18:00 (26 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13770
Subject : System freeze on XFS filesystem recovery on an external disk
Submitter : Jean-Luc Coulon <jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-07-14 10:31 (27 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13739
Subject : 2.6.30 leaking keys on console switch
Submitter : Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date : 2009-07-07 8:44 (34 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124695628924382&w=4
Handled-By : Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13694
Subject : i915 phantom TV
Submitter : Maciek Józiewicz <mjoziew@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-07-02 12:26 (39 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13682
Subject : The webcam stopped working when upgrading from 2.6.29 to 2.6.30
Submitter : Nathanael Schaeffer <nathanael.schaeffer@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-06-30 13:34 (41 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13660
Subject : Crashes during boot on 2.6.30 / 2.6.31-rc, random programs
Submitter : Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-06-27 16:07 (44 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/27/95

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13646
Subject : warn_on tty_io.c, broken bluetooth
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2009-06-19 17:05 (52 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/19/187

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13638
Subject : rt2870 driver is broken for (some) cards
Submitter : jakob gruber <jakob.gruber@kabelnet.at>
Date : 2009-06-27 17:33 (44 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13634
Subject : [drm:drm_wait_vblank] *ERROR* failed to acquire vblank counter, -22
Submitter : Cijoml Cijomlovic Cijomlov <cijoml@volny.cz>
Date : 2009-06-27 07:02 (44 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13621
Subject : xfs hangs with assertion failed
Submitter : Johannes Engel <jcnengel@googlemail.com>
Date : 2009-06-25 10:07 (46 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13620
Subject : acpi_enforce_resources broken - conflicting i2c module loaded on some EeePCs
Submitter : Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Date : 2009-06-25 08:31 (46 days old)
References : <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/2009-June/002316.html>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13583
Subject : pdflush uses 5% CPU on otherwise idle system
Submitter : Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Date : 2009-06-19 13:33 (52 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13581
Subject : ath9k doesn't work with newer kernels
Submitter : Matteo <rootkit85@yahoo.it>
Date : 2009-06-19 12:04 (52 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13564
Subject : random general protection fault at boot time caused by khubd.
Submitter : Pauli <suokkos@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-06-18 12:44 (53 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13558
Subject : Tracelog during resume
Submitter : Cijoml Cijomlovic Cijomlov <cijoml@volny.cz>
Date : 2009-06-17 11:32 (54 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13514
Subject : acer_wmi causes stack corruption
Submitter : Rus <harbour@sfinx.od.ua>
Date : 2009-06-12 08:13 (59 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13512
Subject : D43 on 2.6.30 doesn't suspend anymore
Submitter : Daniel Smolik <marvin@mydatex.cz>
Date : 2009-06-11 20:12 (60 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13502
Subject : GPE storm causes polling mode, which causes /proc/acpi/battery read to take 4 seconds - MacBookPro4,1
Submitter : <sveina@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-06-10 20:04 (61 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13408
Subject : Performance regression in 2.6.30-rc7
Submitter : Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-05-30 18:51 (72 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/30/146

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13407
Subject : adb trackpad disappears after suspend to ram
Submitter : Jan Scholz <scholz@fias.uni-frankfurt.de>
Date : 2009-05-28 7:59 (74 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ed8d2b3a81bdbb0418301628ccdb008ac9f40b7
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124349762314976&w=4
Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13401
Subject : pktcdvd writing is really slow with CFQ scheduler (bisected)
Submitter : Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Date : 2009-05-28 18:43 (74 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13374
Subject : reiserfs blocked for more than 120secs
Submitter : Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Date : 2009-05-23 8:52 (79 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124306880410811&w=4
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/29/389

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13373
Subject : fbcon, intelfb, i915: INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected
Submitter : Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-05-23 5:08 (79 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124305538130702&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362
Subject : rt2x00: slow wifi with correct basic rate bitmap
Submitter : Alejandro Riveira <ariveira@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-05-22 13:32 (80 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13351
Subject : 2.6.30 corrupts my system after suspend resume with readonly mounted hard disk
Submitter : <unggnu@googlemail.com>
Date : 2009-05-20 14:09 (82 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=78a8b35bc7abf8b8333d6f625e08c0f7cc1c3742
Handled-By : Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13341
Subject : Random Oops at boot at loading ip6tables rules
Submitter : <patrick@ostenberg.de>
Date : 2009-05-19 09:08 (83 days old)
Handled-By : Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13328
Subject : b44: eth0: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000002 of register 42c to clear.
Submitter : Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-05-03 16:22 (99 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124136778012280&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13318
Subject : AGP doesn't work anymore on nforce2
Submitter : Karsten Mehrhoff <kawime@gmx.de>
Date : 2009-04-30 8:51 (102 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=59de2bebabc5027f93df999d59cc65df591c3e6e
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124108156417560&w=4
Handled-By : Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13306
Subject : hibernate slow on _second_ run
Submitter : Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date : 2009-05-14 09:34 (88 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13219
Subject : Intel 440GX: Since kernel 2.6.30-rc1, computers hangs randomly but not with kernel <= 2.6.29.6
Submitter : David Hill <hilld@binarystorm.net>
Date : 2009-05-01 16:57 (101 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13180
Subject : 2.6.30-rc2: WARNING at i915_gem.c for i915_gem_idle
Submitter : Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-04-21 21:35 (111 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124034980819102&w=4
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/27/290

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13109
Subject : High latency on /sys/class/thermal
Submitter : Tiago Simões Batista <tiagosbatista@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-04-11 14:56 (121 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123946182301248&w=4
Handled-By : Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>

Regressions with patches
------------------------

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389
Subject : Warning 'Invalid throttling state, reset' gets displayed when it should not be
Submitter : Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date : 2009-05-26 15:24 (76 days old)
Handled-By : Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=21671
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=21672

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13319
Subject : Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb
Submitter : Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date : 2009-04-29 21:01 (103 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124103897101088&w=4
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/7/136
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/26/213
Handled-By : Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/37655/

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 2.6.29 and 2.6.30, unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13070

Please let me know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to
the list in there.

Thanks,
Rafael