2.6.34-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.33

Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-07T21:08:30Z

[NOTE:
The summary report of post-2.6.32 regressions will be sent later
(hopefully tomorrow).]

This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.33,
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 2.6.33, 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
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2010-04-07 48 35 33
2010-03-21 15 13 10

Unresolved regressions
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15719
Subject : virtio_net causing kernel BUG when running under VirtualBox
Submitter : Thomas Müller <thomas@mathtm.de>
Date : 2010-03-27 14:32 (12 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/9ab86bbcf8be755256f0a5e994e0b38af6b4d399
Message-ID : <4BAE1707.2050803@mathtm.de>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126970039227740&w=4
Handled-By : Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15718
Subject : File corruption regression on NFS related to commit 1f36f774
Submitter : Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Date : 2010-03-24 15:49 (15 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/1f36f774b22a0ceb7dd33eca626746c81a97b6a5
Message-ID : <4BAA3493.1030802@panasas.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126944579810350&w=4
Handled-By : Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15717
Subject : bluetooth oops
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2010-03-14 20:14 (25 days old)
Message-ID : <20100314201434.GE22059@elf.ucw.cz>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126859771528426&w=4
Handled-By : Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15716
Subject : ata2: lost interrupt with kernel 2.6.34-rc1
Submitter : Andrew Benton <b3nton@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-11 16:57 (28 days old)
Message-ID : <4B992110.2090300@gmail.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126832670609705&w=4
Handled-By : Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15715
Subject : vmscan: underflow for get_scan_ratio
Submitter : Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Date : 2010-03-30 5:53 (9 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/84b18490d1f1bc7ed5095c929f78bc002eb70f26
Message-ID : <20100330055304.GA2983@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126992842105754&w=4
Handled-By : KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15713
Subject : hackbench regression due to commit 9dfc6e68bfe6e
Submitter : Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Date : 2010-03-25 8:40 (14 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/9dfc6e68bfe6ee452efb1a4e9ca26a9007f2b864
Message-ID : <1269506457.4513.141.camel@alexs-hp.sh.intel.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126950632920682&w=4
Handled-By : Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15712
Subject : [regression] 2.6.34-rc1 to -rc3 on zaurus: no longer boots
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2010-04-01 6:06 (7 days old)
Message-ID : <20100401060624.GA1329@ucw.cz>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127010200817402&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15711
Subject : 2.6.34-rc3, BUG at mm/slab.c:2989
Submitter : Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Date : 2010-04-01 17:52 (7 days old)
Message-ID : <20100401175225.GA6581@fancy-poultry.org>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127014437406250&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15704
Subject : [r8169] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c
Submitter : Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-31 10:21 (8 days old)
Message-ID : <20100331102142.GA3294@swordfish.minsk.epam.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127003090406108&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15674
Subject : [2.6.34-rc2 NFS4 oops] open error path failure...
Submitter : Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-29 18:36 (10 days old)
Message-ID : <6278d2221003291136p6481fe8emfb039403343c082@mail.gmail.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126988782722711&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15673
Subject : 2.6.34-rc2: "ima_dec_counts: open/free imbalance"?
Submitter : Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Date : 2010-03-28 11:31 (11 days old)
Message-ID : <1269775909.5301.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126977593326800&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15672
Subject : KVM bug, git bisected
Submitter : Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-27 12:43 (12 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/5beb49305251e5669852ed541e8e2f2f7696c53e
Message-ID : <4BADFD74.8060904@gmail.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126969385121711&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15671
Subject : intel graphic card hanging (Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung)
Submitter : Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Date : 2010-03-27 16:11 (12 days old)
Message-ID : <20100327161104.GA12043@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126970883105262&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15669
Subject : INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check()
Submitter : Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-08 1:26 (31 days old)
Message-ID : <c4e36d111003250348q678eb2e6w4f3e8133e7fd6e58@mail.gmail.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126801163107713&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15668
Subject : start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early
Submitter : Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Date : 2010-03-25 19:53 (14 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/773e3eb7b81e5ba13b5155dfb3bb75b8ce37f8f9
Message-ID : <20100325194100.GA2364@debian>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126954607216519&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15664
Subject : Graphics hang and kernel backtrace when starting Azureus with Compiz enabled
Submitter : Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Date : 2010-04-01 01:09 (7 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15661
Subject : PROBLEM: crash on halt with 2.6.34-0.16.rc2.git0.fc14.x86_64
Submitter : Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Date : 2010-03-26 15:29 (13 days old)
Message-ID : <1269617372.3779.234.camel@localhost>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126961739803949&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15659
Subject : [Regresion] [2.6.34-rc1] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
Submitter : Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-25 20:04 (14 days old)
Message-ID : <201003252104.24965.maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126954749618319&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15655
Subject : corrupt ext3 fs and partial freeze
Submitter : Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
Date : 2010-03-30 08:25 (9 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15625
Subject : BUG: 2.6.34-rc1, RIP is (null)
Submitter : Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date : 2010-03-18 22:22 (21 days old)
Message-ID : <4BA2A7A9.4080503@oracle.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126895098217351&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15624
Subject : [BUG] percpu misaligned allocation
Submitter : Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-18 4:49 (21 days old)
Message-ID : <20100318044930.GC5045@nowhere>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126888780031992&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15619
Subject : Regression - Linux 2.6.34-rc1 - i915 - Render error detected
Submitter : Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-17 21:58 (22 days old)
Message-ID : <b637ec0b1003171458t524d168fiab52ce2b3431e3c9@mail.gmail.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126886311908558&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15615
Subject : NULL pointer deref in task_is_waking
Submitter : Amit Shah <shahamit@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-23 04:04 (16 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15611
Subject : Failure with the 2.6.34-rc1 kernel
Submitter : Rupjyoti Sarmah <rsarmah@amcc.com>
Date : 2010-03-16 15:45 (23 days old)
Message-ID : <AC311A8E81420D4EBC1F26E6479848FE065B7D3D@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126875435718396&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15610
Subject : fsck leads to swapper - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference & panic
Submitter : Ozgur Yuksel <ozgur.yuksel@oracle.com>
Date : 2010-03-22 15:59 (17 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15603
Subject : lockdep warning at boot time when determining whether to resume
Submitter : Sami Liedes <sliedes@cc.hut.fi>
Date : 2010-03-22 00:03 (17 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15601
Subject : [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto
Submitter : michael-dev@fami-braun.de
Date : 2010-03-15 13:39 (24 days old)
Message-ID : <4B9E38AF.70309@fami-braun.de>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126866044724539&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15600
Subject : CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM woes, 2.6.34-rc1
Submitter : Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Date : 2010-03-15 15:28 (24 days old)
Message-ID : <4B9E5211.9000204@redhat.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126866691701926&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15590
Subject : 2.6.34-rc1: regression: ^Z no longer stops sound
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2010-03-14 7:58 (25 days old)
Message-ID : <20100314075831.GA13457@elf.ucw.cz>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126855353122623&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15589
Subject : 2.6.34-rc1: Badness at fs/proc/generic.c:316
Submitter : Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Date : 2010-03-13 23:53 (26 days old)
Message-ID : <alpine.DEB.2.01.1003131544340.5493@bogon.housecafe.de>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126852442903680&w=2

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15553
Subject : Screen backlight doesn't come back on after lid was closed (GM45)
Submitter : <bugs@kaijauch.de>
Date : 2010-03-17 14:35 (22 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15551
Subject : WARNING: at net/mac80211/work.c:811 ieee80211_work_work+0x7f/0xde8 [mac80211]()
Submitter : Alex Zhavnerchik <alex.vizor@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-16 22:03 (23 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15518
Subject : CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y breaks boot on 32bit
Submitter : Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Date : 2010-03-11 15:37 (28 days old)

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

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15505
Subject : No more b43 wireless interface since 2.6.34-rc1
Submitter : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Date : 2010-03-10 06:59 (29 days old)
Handled-By : Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15505#c11

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15480
Subject : [regression] Fails to boot properly unless given pci=nocrs
Submitter : Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Date : 2010-03-09 01:24 (30 days old)
Handled-By : Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/11/512

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 2.6.33,
unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15310

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

Thanks!

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