2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc3 compared to 2.6.18 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: T60 stops triggering any ACPI events > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4/425 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/262 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7408 > Submitter : "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[E

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Jun'ichi Nomura
Hi Michael, > 2.6.19-rc3 without reverting > d7dd8fd9557840162b724a8ac1366dd78a12dff stops receiving ACPI events after some > use (sometimes after suspend/resume, sometimes after kernel build stress). Now, > what does this tell us? Andrew, any idea? The code is related to bd_claim_by_disk whic

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Jun'ichi Nomura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3) > > Hi Michael, > > > 2.6.19-rc3 without reverting > > d7dd8fd9557840162b724a8ac1366dd78a12dff stops receiving ACPI events after > some > > us

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: > > The code is related to bd_claim_by_disk which is called when > device-mapper or md tries to mark the underlying devices > for exclusive use and creates symlinks from/to the devices > in sysfs. The patch added error handlings which weren't in > the

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Jun'ichi Nomura
Hi Michael, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: The code is related to bd_claim_by_disk which is called when device-mapper or md tries to mark the underlying devices for exclusive use and creates symlinks from/to the devices in sysfs. The patch added error handlings which weren't in the original code. I

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Jun'ichi Nomura
Hi Linus, Linus Torvalds wrote: Actually, looking closer at the code, the patch seems to add _incorrect_ error handling. For example, look at bd_claim_by_kobject(): if the "bd_claim()" inside of it succeeds, we used to always return success. Now, we don't necessarily do that: we may have don

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Jun'ichi Nomura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3) > > Hi Michael, > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> The code is related to bd_claim_by_disk which is called when > >> device-mapper or md t

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: > > Please revert the patch. I'll fix the wrong error handling. > > I'm not sure reverting the patch solves the ACPI problem > because Michael's kernel seems not having any user of > bd_claim_by_kobject. Yeah, doing a grep does seem to imply that the

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:16:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >... > I assume that "compile the kernel" just triggers some magic ACPI event > (probably fan-related due to heat), and I wonder if the bisection faked > you out because once you get "close enough" the differences are small > enough

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3) > > > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: > > > > Please revert the patch. I'll fix the wrong error handling. > > > > I

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Martin's original bug report stated "now I loose ACPI events after > suspend/resume. not every time, but roughly 3 out of 4 times." > This seems to support your theory. > > But considering that two people have independently reported this as a > 2.6.19

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin, Michael, can you send complete "dmesg -s 100" for both > 2.6.18.1 and a non-working 2.6.19-rc kernel after resume? > I don't have high hopes, but perhaps looking at the dmesg and/or > diff'ing them might give a hint. OK, I'll try to go ba

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-31 Thread Martin Lorenz
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:35:22PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:16:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > Martin, Michael, can you send complete "dmesg -s 100" for both > 2.6.18.1 and a non-working 2.6.19-rc kernel after resume? > I don't have high hopes, but perha

Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2006-10-31 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3) > > > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: > > > > Please revert the patch. I'll fix the wrong error handling. > > > > I