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2.6.23-rc2: known regressions with patches

PATCH Michal Piotrowski 4 participants 5 messages Aug 5, 2007 – Aug 6, 2007 1 message not in the archive

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Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2 with patches available.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

List of Aces

Name Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007

Adrian Bunk                            6
Andi Kleen                             4
Andrew Morton                          4
Linus Torvalds                         4
Al Viro                                3
Cornelia Huck                          3
Jens Axboe                             3
Tejun Heo                              3
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2
Trent Piepho                           2

Memory management

Subject : [bug] SLUB & freeing locks
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/90
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/97
Status          : patch available

Modpost

Subject : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30

                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418

Last known good : ?
Submitter : Jan Dittmer <[email protected]>

                  commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
Handled-By      : ?
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
Status          : patch was suggested

Networking

Subject : tg3 dead after s2ram
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/31/121
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Joachim Deguara <[email protected]>

Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Michael Chan <[email protected]>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/288
Status          : patch available

SCSI

Subject : qla2xyz broken in current Linus tree
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118581420308892&w=2
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>

                  commit 281afe1947d855661754850de29d7530b2ff
Handled-By      : Seokmann Ju <[email protected]>
Patch           : http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118581884800073&w=2
Status          : patch available

Regards,
Michal

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#2 lore raw
Quoted 6 lines · Michal Piotrowski

Hi all,

Modpost

Subject : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30

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                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418

Last known good : ?
Submitter : Jan Dittmer <[email protected]>

                  commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
Handled-By      : ?
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
Status          : patch was suggested

A patch was sent to Tony. AFAIK it got accepted, not sure whether it already is in any and which git tree...

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Networking

Subject : tg3 dead after s2ram
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/31/121
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Joachim Deguara <[email protected]>

Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Michael Chan <[email protected]>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/288
Status          : patch available

David Miller sent a message that it got applied.

Thanks,

Thomas

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                  commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690

A patch was sent to Tony. AFAIK it got accepted, not sure whether it already is in any and which git tree...

The suggested patch adds manual padding to the acpi_device_id structure definition in include/linux/mod_devicetable.h I didn't take it, and it appears that nobody else did either. It is not in Linus' tree (as of 2.6.23-rc2).

I expressed doubts about whether this is the right fix. The problem is that when cross-compiling a locally compiled utility makes a size & alignment check. This is bogus. We shouldn't care whether this structure compiles to the same size/alignment as the kernel that will use on the target platform.

Is fixing this the right way (make the scripts/mod/file2alias.c understand target alignment rules in a cross environment) just too hideous to contemplate ... and we should just sacrifice 7 bytes of padding in order to keep life simple?

-Tony

#5 lore raw
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Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2 with patches available.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

List of Aces

Name Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007

Adrian Bunk                            6
Andi Kleen                             4
Andrew Morton                          4
Linus Torvalds                         4
Al Viro                                3
Cornelia Huck                          3
Jens Axboe                             3
Tejun Heo                              3
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2
Trent Piepho                           2

Memory management

Subject : [bug] SLUB & freeing locks
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/90
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/97
Status          : patch available

Modpost

Subject : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30

                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418

Last known good : ?
Submitter : Jan Dittmer <[email protected]>

                  commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
Handled-By      : ?
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
Status          : patch was suggested

Networking

Subject : tg3 dead after s2ram
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/31/121
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Joachim Deguara <[email protected]>

Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Michael Chan <[email protected]>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/288
Status          : patch available

SCSI

Subject : qla2xyz broken in current Linus tree
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118581420308892&w=2
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>

                  commit 281afe1947d855661754850de29d7530b2ff
Handled-By      : Seokmann Ju <[email protected]>
Patch           : http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118581884800073&w=2
Status          : patch available

Regards,
Michal

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