From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756155AbYEWQTs (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:19:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750982AbYEWQTl (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:19:41 -0400 Received: from mga12.intel.com ([143.182.124.36]:60932 "EHLO azsmga102.ch.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750846AbYEWQTk (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:19:40 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,530,1204531200"; d="scan'208";a="251386490" Message-ID: <4836EE8C.1010200@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:19:24 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Andrew Morton Subject: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and warning reports from various mailing lists and bugzillas as well as with a client users can install to auto-submit oopses. Below is a top 10 list of the oopses collected in the last 7 days. (Reports prior to 2.6.23 have been omitted in collecting the top 10) This week, a total of 3192 oopses and warnings have been reported, compared to 1503 reports in the previous week. Per file statistics [I'd love to borrow Linus' gitstat stuff for this to get a nicer presentation of the per file/directory data] 1267 kernel/sysctl.c 283 fs/sysfs/dir.c 266 fs/buffer.c 111 lib/iomap.c 81 kernel/spinlock.c 51 mm/page_alloc.c 49 net/mac80211/main.c 38 kernel/irq/manage.c 38 security/selinux/hooks.c 34 net/core/sock.c Rank 1: __register_sysctl_paths Reported 1260 times (2491 total reports) [tainted] Duplicate /proc registration. Bug in the madwifi driver (Occasionally seen in the parport driver) This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.4, and first seen in 2.6.25-rc3. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=__register_sysctl_paths Rank 2: sysfs_add_one Reported 264 times (528 total reports) Duplicate sysfs registration... mostly a GregKH bug ... This oops was last seen in version 2.6.26-rc3, and first seen in 2.6.24-rc6. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=sysfs_add_one Rank 3: mark_buffer_dirty Reported 253 times (547 total reports) EXT3 bug while hot-removing a USB device This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in 2.6.24-rc6. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=mark_buffer_dirty Rank 4: bad_io_access Reported 111 times (153 total reports) Bug with pata_isapnp causing another ata driver to go SPLAT Patch available in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10752 This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in 2.6.24. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=bad_io_access Rank 5: _spin_unlock_irqrestore Reported 80 times (207 total reports) Seems to happen mostly around the idle loop.. weak voltage regulators? This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in 2.6.22-rc1. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=_spin_unlock_irqrestore Rank 6: ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session Reported 49 times (104 total reports) A bug in the iwl4965 driver This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in 2.6.25-rc7-git6. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session Rank 7: __alloc_pages Reported 49 times (79 total reports) This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in 2.6.18-rc1. Bugs in the sata_nv and velocity drivers. sata_nv patch available at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/604 More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=__alloc_pages Rank 8: set_irq_wake Reported 38 times (43 total reports) [fixed] Bug in serial_core.c where disable_irq_wake/enable_irq_wake were unbalanced Fix available at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/218 (and in -mm) This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in 2.6.25-rc9-git1. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=set_irq_wake Rank 9: task_has_capability Reported 34 times [tainted] Bug in the proprietary firegl driver Oops only shows up in tainted kernels This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in 2.6.25. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=task_has_capability Rank 10: sk_free Reported 29 times (109 total reports) [tainted] VMWare driver bug Oops only shows up in tainted kernels This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.4, and first seen in 2.6.23.9. More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=sk_free