This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.37, 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 2.6.37, 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 ---------------------------------------- 2011-03-06 70 27 26 2011-02-21 51 18 17 2011-02-12 39 20 18 2011-02-03 19 11 7 Unresolved regressions ---------------------- Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30472 Subject : 2.6.38-post-rc7 with radeon kms: reproducably locks up hard when using desktop cube of kwin Submitter : Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de> Date : 2011-03-05 15:10:24 (2 days old) Message-ID : <201103051510.35057.Martin at lichtvoll.de> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129933425306804&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30462 Subject : High cpu usage when someone sends many ipv6 udp packages Submitter : Ernst Sj?strand <ernstp at gmail.com> Date : 2011-03-05 01:10 (2 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30142 Subject : Kernel Oops after hibernation Submitter : Willi Mann <foss-ml at wm1.at> Date : 2011-03-01 08:12 (6 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30072 Subject : USB-to-serial problems in 2.6.37.1+ (pl2303) Submitter : <akwatts at ymail.com> Date : 2011-02-28 12:39 (7 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30062 Subject : Huge amounts of "HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for /dev/sr0" messages during boot Submitter : Bernd Eggink <monoped at sudrala.de> Date : 2011-02-28 10:52 (7 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30032 Subject : r8169: 60 seconds delay when resuming from suspend Submitter : Guillaume Ayoub <xovni at wanadoo.fr> Date : 2011-02-27 16:52 (8 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29992 Subject : boot hang 2.6.37.1 regression w/ intel_idle and CONFIG_NO_HZ=n - asus p7p55d le Submitter : De Ganseman Amaury <amaury.deganseman at gmail.com> Date : 2011-02-27 10:38 (8 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29952 Subject : btrfs as root filesystems hangs on mount after d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7 Submitter : Asbj?rn Sannes <ace at sannes.org> Date : 2011-02-26 15:59 (9 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29902 Subject : System suspend failed after 1-2 successful resumes Submitter : Alex Terekhov <a.terekhov at gmail.com> Date : 2011-02-25 22:24 (10 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29852 Subject : 2.6.38-rc5: nfsd: page allocation failure. spinlock trylock failure on UP Submitter : Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov at gmail.com> Date : 2011-02-21 20:33 (14 days old) Message-ID : <AANLkTi=14N_c_B7mLY0H8Dt8pte6C0mjFnVuC37e44Hs at mail.gmail.com> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129832042402668&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29812 Subject : Brightness levels too low on Dell Inspiron 13" Intel HD 4 Series Submitter : Niklas Schnelle <niklas at komani.de> Date : 2011-02-24 10:24 (11 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/951f3512dba5bd44cda3e5ee22b4b522e4bb09fb Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29672 Subject : [regression][ALSA][hda-conexant][2.6.38-rcX] external microphone sound too quiet Submitter : Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com> Date : 2011-02-19 6:02 (16 days old) Message-ID : <474630.25335.qm at smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129809536502092&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29312 Subject : Unmounting fails even after the underlying device is long gone Submitter : Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at gmail.com> Date : 2011-02-17 19:20 (18 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29252 Subject : IPv6 doesn't work in a kvm guest. Submitter : Kusanagi Kouichi <slash at ac.auone-net.jp> Date : 2011-02-16 13:03 (19 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29022 Subject : [REGRESSION? 2.6.38-rc4] nouveau NV50/NVA8 screen freeze Submitter : Marc Koschewski <marc at osknowledge.org> Date : 2011-02-13 12:29 (22 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28882 Subject : Screen corruption and GPU hangs Submitter : Ko Mi <chaostya.test at hotmail.com> Date : 2011-02-11 18:17 (24 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28842 Subject : 2.6.38-rc3 regression ipv6 TFTP download with curl failing in getpeername? Submitter : Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> Date : 2011-02-08 9:41 (27 days old) Message-ID : <m1ei7iamnn.fsf at fess.ebiederm.org> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129715811421534&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28642 Subject : ACPI broken on DELL Latitude E6410 in 2.6.38-rc3 Submitter : Adam Kovari <kovariadam at gmail.com> Date : 2011-02-08 22:22 (27 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28562 Subject : [BUG] usb problems in .38-rc3+ Submitter : Ed Tomlinson <edt at aei.ca> Date : 2011-02-05 19:17 (30 days old) Message-ID : <201102051417.58953.edt at aei.ca> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129693391417607&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28522 Subject : Unable to mount FAT-formatted floppy on /dev/fd0, plus WARN_ON when using /dev/fd0u1440 Submitter : Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci at ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec> Date : 2011-02-07 17:21 (28 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28452 Subject : 2.6.38-rc3 regression on parisc: segfaults Submitter : Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee> Date : 2011-02-01 22:00 (34 days old) Message-ID : <alpine.SOC.1.00.1102012342200.25944 at math.ut.ee> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129659763426600&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28432 Subject : khugepaged: gets stuck when writing to USB flash, 2.6.38-rc2 Submitter : Jind?ich Makovi?ka <makovick at gmail.com> Date : 2011-01-31 19:28 (35 days old) Message-ID : <AANLkTi=uOpN0PwWdGh6iri-vJwuMS+WMPxmaZjv0-TrV at mail.gmail.com> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129650210516627&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28422 Subject : kref and apparmor panic in 2.6.38-rc2. Submitter : Tao Ma <tm at tao.ma> Date : 2011-01-31 10:06 (35 days old) Message-ID : <4D46899B.80302 at tao.ma> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129646840303149&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28262 Subject : Slow resume from suspend/hibernate on Dell Inspiron M301Z Submitter : Luca Ferretti <lferrett at gnome.org> Date : 2011-02-05 12:37 (30 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28102 Subject : New display errors in 2.6.38-rc2-00175-g6fb1b30 Submitter : Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel-20110117 at schottelius.org> Date : 2011-01-28 20:29 (38 days old) Message-ID : <20110128202905.GB3395 at schottelius.org> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129624657425949&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27022 Subject : [REPORT] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, init/1 Submitter : Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> Date : 2011-01-10 15:33 (56 days old) Message-ID : <a7a9bdaa5936630925fb7ffd1a1795b1 at mail.gmail.com> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129467294808655&w=2 Regressions with patches ------------------------ Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402 Subject : kernel panics while running ffsb scalability workloads on 2.6.38-rc1 through -rc5 Submitter : Eric Whitney <eric.whitney at hp.com> Date : 2011-02-18 21:47 (17 days old) Handled-By : Lukas Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com> Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=49642 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 2.6.37, unresolved as well as resolved, at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27352 Please let the tracking team know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to the list in there. Thanks!
