2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions (v3) (part 2)

2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions (v3) (part 2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc5 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    : pktcdvd fails with pata_amd
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810
Submitter  : gd@spherenet.de
Status     : unknown


Subject    : problems with CD burning
References : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg06545.html
Submitter  : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172 set_dentry_child_flags()
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7785
Submitter  : Cijoml Cijomlovic Cijomlov <cijoml@volny.cz>
Handled-By : Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : powerpc64: performance monitor exception
References : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-January/030045.html
Submitter  : Livio Soares <livio@eecg.toronto.edu>
Caused-By  : Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
             commit d04c56f73c30a5e593202ecfcf25ed43d42363a2
Status     : problem is being discussed


Subject    : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page()  (reiserfs)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/202
Submitter  : Malte Schröder <MalteSch@gmx.de>
Handled-By : Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
             Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/202
Status     : problem is being discussed


Subject    : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page()  (XFS)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/23/190
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/23/192
Submitter  : Sami Farin <7atbggg02@sneakemail.com>
Handled-By : David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Status     : patches are being discussed


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


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>
Status     : Trond: the WARN_ON() needs to be thrown out

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions (v3) (part 2)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:47:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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

I wouldn't call this a regression.  It appears to go way back.  I also
didn't find it, I just commented on it since it does affect the platform
I work on.

--
Len Sorensen

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions (v3) (part 2)

[Andrew Clayton]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:47:25 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> 
> 
> 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>
> Status     : Trond: the WARN_ON() needs to be thrown out
> 

Still present in -rc6