[1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc3
with patches available.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

List of Aces

Name                    Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Adrian Bunk                            9
Andi Kleen                             5
Linus Torvalds                         5
Andrew Morton                          4
Al Viro                                3
Cornelia Huck                          3
Jens Axboe                             3
Tejun Heo                              3



Unclassified

Subject         : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/11/177
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Dan Merillat <dan.merillat@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
                  ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6
Handled-By      : Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
                  Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/12/76
Status          : patch was suggested

Subject         : Kconfig prompts without help text
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/326
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/236
Status          : patch available

Subject         : Oops while modprobing phy fixed module
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/14/63
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
                  Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/506
Status          : patch available



FS

Subject         : NFSv4 poops itself
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/144
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/183
Status          : patch available



Regards,
Michal

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Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Trond Myklebust]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 19:59 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:

> FS
> 
> Subject         : NFSv4 poops itself
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/144
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/183
> Status          : patch available

A fix for this was merged by Linus prior to the release of 2.6.23-rc3.

Cheers
  Trond

Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Aug 13 2007 19:59, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>
>Subject         : Kconfig prompts without help text
>References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/326
>Last known good : ?
>Submitter       : Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
>Caused-By       : ?
>Handled-By      : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
>Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/236
>Status          : patch available

Is there some special magic needed (like resubmit), or will you slurp this one
yourself?



	Jan
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Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Andi Kleen]

> Unclassified
> 
> Subject         : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)

This is already fixed in mainline

There is a real regression with failing builds on some old binutils on 
x86-64 know, but I don't know how to fix it.

-Andi

Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Michal Piotrowski]

On 13/08/07, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > Unclassified
> >
> > Subject         : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)
>
> This is already fixed in mainline

commit b8d3f2448b8f4ba24f301e23585547ba1acc1f04

>
> There is a real regression with failing builds on some old binutils on
> x86-64 know, but I don't know how to fix it.

Did you mean this?

Subject         : /usr/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 ->
ffffffffff7007e3] overlaps section .gnu.version_d [ffffffffff7004d8 ->
ffffffffff70050f]
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/239
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Status          : problem is being debugged

>
> -Andi
>

Regards,
Michal

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Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:24:52PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> On 13/08/07, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > > Unclassified
> > >
> > > Subject         : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)
> >
> > This is already fixed in mainline
> 
> commit b8d3f2448b8f4ba24f301e23585547ba1acc1f04
> 
> >
> > There is a real regression with failing builds on some old binutils on
> > x86-64 know, but I don't know how to fix it.
> 
> Did you mean this?

Yes. Anyways it be likely a WONT-FIX -- aka document newer binutils
version required. We haven't had any other reports so likely
that version is not too widely used.

-Andi

Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:56:53PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:24:52PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > On 13/08/07, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > > > Unclassified
> > > >
> > > > Subject         : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)
> > >
> > > This is already fixed in mainline
> > 
> > commit b8d3f2448b8f4ba24f301e23585547ba1acc1f04
> > 
> > >
> > > There is a real regression with failing builds on some old binutils on
> > > x86-64 know, but I don't know how to fix it.
> > 
> > Did you mean this?
> 
> Yes. Anyways it be likely a WONT-FIX -- aka document newer binutils
> version required. We haven't had any other reports so likely
> that version is not too widely used.

IOW: Either the Linux binutils >= 2.17.50.0.3 or the not yet released 
GNU binutils 2.18 are now required.

Debian 4.0 has older ones, and all distributions released more than a 
year ago for sure also have older ones (the required patch went into 
binutils CVS on 2006-05-30 and 2.17.50.0.3 was released on 2006-07-15).

Isn't that a bit too recent?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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