2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v2)

Adrian Bunk
2006-11-11T01:50:35Z

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc5 compared to 2.6.18
that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.

If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly
involved with one or more of these issues.

Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.

Subject : PCI MSI setting corrupted during resume
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7479
Submitter : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Status : unknown

Subject : x86_64 boot failure: irq 22: nobody cared (hda_intel MSI)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/8/98
Submitter : Olivier Nicolas <olivn@trollprod.org>
Status : unknown

Subject : SMP kernel can not generate ISA irq properly
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/22/15
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/142
Submitter : Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Status : Thomas is investigating

Subject : x86_64: Fix partial page check to ensure unusable memory
is not being marked usable
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/9/239
Submitter : Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Caused-By : Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
commit 5cb248abf5ab65ab543b2d5fc16c738b28031fc0
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/9/239
Status : patch available

Subject : x86_64: Bad page state in process 'swapper'
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/135
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/208
Submitter : Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Handled-By : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Status : Andi is investigating

Subject : x86_64: oprofile doesn't work
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/3
Submitter : Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Status : unknown

Subject : weird battery charge level reported
ACPI Error method parse / execution failed
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7466
Submitter : Olivier Mondoloni <olivier.mondoloni@waika9.com>
Status : unknown

Subject : ThinkPad R50p: boot fail with (lapic && on_battery)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/31/333
Submitter : Ernst Herzberg <earny@net4u.de>
Handled-By : Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : BUG: scheduling while atomic: events/0/0x00000001/4
after resume
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/2/209
Submitter : Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Status : unknown

Subject : sata-via doesn't detect anymore disks attached to VIA vt6421
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7255
Submitter : Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>
Status : unknown

Subject : libata must be initialized earlier
References : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-November/027945.html
Submitter : Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Handled-By : Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Patch : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=116169938407596&w=2
Status : patch available

Subject : unable to rip cd
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/13/100
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/8/42
Submitter : Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
Handled-By : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Status : Jens is investigating