2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (part 1)

2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (part 1)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc6 compared to 2.6.19
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    : NULL pointer dereference at as_move_to_dispatch()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/22/141
Submitter  : Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : raid1: copying a big file triggers OOM killer
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/20/69
Submitter  : Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Handled-By : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : ext3 with data=journal hangs when running fsx-linux since -rc2
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7844
Submitter  : Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Handled-By : Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
             Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
             Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : reboot instead of powerdown  (CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/25/40
             http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7828
Submitter  : Berthold Cogel <cogel@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
             François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@skynet.be>
Handled-By : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : usb somehow broken  (CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/11/146
Submitter  : Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Handled-By : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
             Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : fix geode_configure()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/9/216
Submitter  : Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Caused-By  : takada <takada@mbf.nifty.com>
             commit e4f0ae0ea63caceff37a13f281a72652b7ea71ba
Handled-By : takada <takada@mbf.nifty.com>
             Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Status     : patches are being discussed

2.6.20-rc6: known regressions with patches

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc6 compared to 2.6.19
with patches available.

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    : RAID: annoying "hunk_aligned_read : non aligned" messages
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7835
Submitter  : Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
Handled-By : Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7835
Status     : patch available


Subject    : ACPI: fix cpufreq regression
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/120
Submitter  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Caused-By  : Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
             commit 0916bd3ebb7cefdd0f432e8491abe24f4b5a101e
Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/120
Status     : patch available


Subject    : MIPS Malta: CONFIG_MTD=n compile error
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/25/122
Submitter  : Jan Altenberg <jan@linutronix.de>
Caused-By  : Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
             commit b228f4c54df37b53c6f364aa7f3efa4280bcc4f0
Handled-By : Jan Altenberg <jan@linutronix.de>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/25/122
Status     : patch available


Subject    : NFS triggers WARN_ON() in invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7826
Submitter  : Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Caused-By  : Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
             commit 8258d4a574d3a8c01f0ef68aa26b969398a0e140
Handled-By : Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/24/323
Status     : patch available

Re: 2.6.20-rc6: known regressions with patches

[Ingo Molnar]

* Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> Subject    : ACPI: fix cpufreq regression
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/120
> Submitter  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Caused-By  : Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
>              commit 0916bd3ebb7cefdd0f432e8491abe24f4b5a101e
> Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/120
> Status     : patch available

this is commit e4233dec749a3519069d9390561b5636a75c7579 meanwhile.

	Ingo

Re: 2.6.20-rc6: known regressions with patches

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:45:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > 
 > * Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
 > 
 > > Subject    : ACPI: fix cpufreq regression
 > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/120
 > > Submitter  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 > > Caused-By  : Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
 > >              commit 0916bd3ebb7cefdd0f432e8491abe24f4b5a101e
 > > Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 > > Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/120
 > > Status     : patch available
 > 
 > this is commit e4233dec749a3519069d9390561b5636a75c7579 meanwhile.

Thanks for pushing this on in my absense btw.
FWIW, it has my belated ACK :)
I've asked for it to be in 19.3 too as the same bug exists there.

		Dave

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