2.6.33-rc8-git6: Reported regressions 2.6.31 -> 2.6.32

Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-21T21:59:19Z

This message contains a list of some post-2.6.31 regressions introduced before
2.6.32, 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 post-2.6.31 regressions, 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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2010-02-21 158 39 35
2010-02-15 157 45 37
2010-02-08 155 47 37
2010-02-01 149 50 45
2010-01-24 140 45 43
2010-01-10 130 44 40
2009-12-29 124 60 57
2009-11-21 86 29 25
2009-11-16 84 46 41
2009-10-26 66 42 37
2009-10-12 48 31 27
2009-10-02 22 15 9

Unresolved regressions
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15341
Subject : Load goes up very high when we traverse the large tree
Submitter : Frederic MASSOT <frederic@juliana-multimedia.com>
Date : 2010-02-17 11:43 (5 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15309
Subject : reiserfs issue with 2.6.32.8
Submitter : Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-02-14 18:23 (8 days old)
Message-ID : <dda83e781002141023t2abe95b8w83f59d6f411f68a2@mail.gmail.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126617185512707&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15220
Subject : Kernel freezes when playing DVB stream and having 3D acceleration in the same time
Submitter : Cijoml Cijomlovic Cijomlov <cijoml@volny.cz>
Date : 2010-02-03 20:34 (19 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15206
Subject : uvcvideo fails to work since 2.6.32
Submitter : Rich Ercolani <rercola@acm.jhu.edu>
Date : 2010-02-01 12:51 (21 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15205
Subject : blank screen with KMS if lid is closed before kernel boots
Submitter : Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date : 2010-02-01 09:08 (21 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/b42d4c5c6a872815d711e5d51a600f5122c38eee

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15190
Subject : second suspend fails and system freezes in hp 6910P laptop
Submitter : Jithin Emmanuel <jithin1987@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-01-31 15:53 (22 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15158
Subject : oops related to i915_gem_object_save_bit_17_swizzle
Submitter : Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>
Date : 2010-01-28 08:26 (25 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15156
Subject : 2.6.32.6 hang at boot with ati x1600
Submitter : Alexey Kuznetsov <ak@axet.ru>
Date : 2010-01-28 05:02 (25 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15134
Subject : gobi_loader hangs after commit 8e8dce065088
Submitter : Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Date : 2010-01-17 2:55 (36 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126369696509502&w=4
Handled-By : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15100
Subject : X11 is black after resume from s2ram if my T400 was previous in docking station before
Submitter : Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Date : 2010-01-21 08:56 (32 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/c1c7af60892070e4b82ad63bbfb95ae745056de0

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15096
Subject : Resume lock up -- bisected, commit 3a1151e3f124fd1a2c54b8153f510f1a7c715369
Submitter : Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-01-20 23:15 (33 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/3a1151e3f124fd1a2c54b8153f510f1a7c715369

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15042
Subject : socket(PF_INET6 hangs when ipv6 not yet initialized
Submitter : Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@zugschlus.de>
Date : 2010-01-10 14:28 (43 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126313553029280&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15021
Subject : agpgart sometimes fails to initialize sometimes
Submitter : Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-01-09 23:31 (44 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14998
Subject : Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory in acpi_system_read_event -- 2.6.31 regression
Submitter : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Date : 2010-01-06 21:40 (47 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/eca6f534e61919b28fb21aafbd1c2983deae75be

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14943
Subject : nfs regression?
Submitter : Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>
Date : 2009-12-28 12:10 (56 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126200276223524&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14922
Subject : 2.6.32 seemed to have broken nVidia MCP7A sata controller
Submitter : Mike Cui <cuicui@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-12-19 6:13 (65 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=126120323407742&w=4
Handled-By : Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14898
Subject : ksoftirqd problem
Submitter : Nico <segfault2@hotmail.com>
Date : 2009-12-13 19:05 (71 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126073114325690&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14895
Subject : BUG in kernel 2.6.32 when using luks encrypted root and RAID0..
Submitter : r4 <mk_4@centrum.cz>
Date : 2009-12-03 18:24 (81 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125986664904751&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14891
Subject : Deadlock regression related to NFS root
Submitter : Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date : 2009-11-24 0:24 (90 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125902279909452&w=4
Handled-By : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14868
Subject : flood of "don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory." on upgrade to 2.6.32
Submitter : Rich Ercolani <rercola@acm.jhu.edu>
Date : 2009-12-24 02:44 (60 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14817
Subject : When is system under load, then freeze/HD fail
Submitter : okias <d.okias@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-12-15 11:12 (69 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14782
Subject : Suspend hangs Lenovo SL300 after gdm login
Submitter : Gary Trakhman <gary.trakhman@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-12-10 18:53 (74 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/03ba3782e8dcc5b0e1efe440d33084f066e38cae

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14748
Subject : e1000e NIC not working after reboot
Submitter : Maciek Sitarz <macieks@freesco.pl>
Date : 2009-12-06 13:04 (78 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14695
Subject : regression in karmic thermal control
Submitter : Bugie <public@bugie.de>
Date : 2009-11-26 08:45 (88 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14667
Subject : bisected 2.6.32 EC regression - Temperatures not correctly detected after suspend
Submitter : Federico Chiacchiaretta <federico.chia@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-11-22 20:42 (92 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/6a63b06f3c494cc87eade97f081300bda60acec7

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14657
Subject : perf subsystem breakage in 2.6.32-rc7
Submitter : Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Date : 2009-11-19 19:50 (95 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125866013419738&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14656
Subject : Oops at __rmqueue+0x98 with 2.6.32-rc6
Submitter : Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Date : 2009-11-19 3:48 (95 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125860255229092&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
Subject : ath9k: BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten
Submitter : Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-11-12 4:58 (102 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125800196520396&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14621
Subject : specjbb2005 and aim7 regression with 2.6.32-rc kernels
Submitter : Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Date : 2009-11-06 7:38 (108 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125749310413174&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14504
Subject : intermittent hibernation problem again
Submitter : Ferenc Wágner <wferi@niif.hu>
Date : 2009-10-28 23:49 (117 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14487
Subject : PANIC: early exception 08 rip 246:10 error ffffffff810251b5 cr2 0
Submitter : Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Date : 2009-10-23 16:45 (122 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/23/252
Handled-By : Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14442
Subject : resume after hibernate: /dev/sdb drops and returns as /dev/sde
Submitter : Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
Date : 2009-10-20 01:52 (125 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14426
Subject : CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns flood
Submitter : Thibault Mondary <thibm@free.fr>
Date : 2009-10-17 09:29 (128 days old)

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14298
Subject : warning at manage.c:361 (set_irq_wake), matrix-keypad related?
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2009-09-30 20:07 (145 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125434130703538&w=4

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14297
Subject : console resume broken since ba15ab0e8d
Submitter : Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Date : 2009-09-30 15:11 (145 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/ba15ab0e8de0d4439a91342ad52d55ca9e313f3d
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125432349404060&w=4

Regressions with patches
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15304
Subject : SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest_queue()
Submitter : Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Date : 2010-02-13 1:14 (9 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/git/linus/bdb94aa5dbd8b55e75f5a50b61312fe589e2c2d1
Message-ID : <1266023662.2808.118.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126602374511831&w=4
Handled-By : Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/79039/

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15248
Subject : KMS broken on Intel 855GM broken with 2.6.32/33
Submitter : Michal Nowak <mnowak@redhat.com>
Date : 2010-02-07 09:59 (15 days old)
Handled-By : Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/78947/

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15193
Subject : kswapd continuously active
Submitter : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date : 2010-01-22 23 (31 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126420434519039&w=4
Handled-By : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/78856/

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14997
Subject : Closing and re-opening the lid does not reactivate the backlight
Submitter : o. meijer <meijer.o@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-01-06 15:38 (47 days old)
Handled-By : Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=25092

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 introduced
between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32, unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14230

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

Thanks!