Re: [3.16.y-ckt stable] Linux 3.16.7-ckt4 stable review

Luis Henriques
2015-01-12T21:59:23Z

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:30:45PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Luis Henriques wrote:
>
> >This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.16.7-ckt4 stable kernel.
> >
> >This version contains 216 new patches, summarized below. The new patches are
> >posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch:
> >
> >http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;h=linux-3.16.y-review;a=shortlog
> >
> >git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git linux-3.16.y-review
> >
> >The review period for version 3.16.7-ckt4 will be open for the next three days.
> >To report a problem, please reply to the relevant follow-up patch message.
> >
> >For more information about the Linux 3.16.y-ckt extended stable kernel version,
> >see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable .
>
>
> Something is wrong with drm/i915 (I guess). I had a terrible memleak on Xorg
> when using mplayer using more and more RAM, and then the system is swapping
> itself to death.
>
> I'm using a openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) on a Baytrail J1900 (this is Intel HD
> Gen7).
>
>

Thank you for reporting, Thomas. Can you please confirm that this is
actually a regression in 3.16.7-ckt4 (i.e., that you can't reproduce
it in 3.16.7-ckt3)? If so, is it possible to bisecting it?

Cheers,
--
Luís

> Thomas
>
>
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