Oops/Warning report for the week of September 28th, 2008

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Sep 28 2008 - 16:12:55 EST


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 list of the top traces collected in the last 7 days.
(Reports for version 2.6.25 or earlier have been omitted in collecting the top 10)

This week, a total of 3357 oopses and warnings have been reported,
compared to 2712 reports in the previous week.


Per file statistics
639 net/sched/sch_generic.c
424 drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
410 external/utrace
157 fs/jbd/journal.c
143 drivers/parport/procfs.c
134 external/fireglx/binary (P)
105 net/core/dev.c
103 kernel/timer.c
81 drivers/base/power/main.c
70 kernel/sched.c
42 drivers/char/random.c
38 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cp.c


Unfixed
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Rank 1: dev_watchdog (oops)
Reported 639 times (1496 total reports)
Various device timeouts. Patch to report the driver name is in -rc7; per driver data is now
coming in but has not made the top 10 yet.
This oops was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc7-git1, and first seen in 2.6.26-rc3.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=dev_watchdog

Rank 3: utrace_control (oops)
Reported 409 times (775 total reports)
[fedora] Fedora merged a broken utrace patch
This oops was last seen in version 2.6.26.5, and first seen in 2.6.26.1.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=utrace_control

Rank 4: journal_update_superblock (warning)
Reported 156 times (4183 total reports)
Caused by the user removing a USB stick while mounted
Ted has a patch to fix this, but isn't merged in Linus' tree yet.
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc7-git1, and first seen in 2.6.24-rc6-git1.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=journal_update_superblock

Rank 6: firegl_ioctl (warning)
Reported 105 times (2694 total reports)
[external] Bug in the proprietary fireglx driver
warning only shows up in tainted kernels
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.26.5, and first seen in 2.6.25.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=firegl_ioctl

Rank 9: finish_task_switch (lockup)
Reported 58 times (139 total reports)
This oops was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc2-git1, and first seen in 2.6.24.
Potentially fixed by Thomas' timer patches, the jury is still out on this one
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=finish_task_switch

Rank 10: device_pm_add (warning)
Reported 56 times (231 total reports)
Bug in the Suspend/Resume code of drivers. Patch to report the actual driver involved is pending for .28
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc4, and first seen in 2.6.26-rc5.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=device_pm_add

Rank 11: account (oops)
Reported 42 times (74 total reports)
Bug in the /dev/random driver
This oops was last seen in version 2.6.26.3, and first seen in 2.6.26.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=account

Rank 12: rs_get_rate (warning)
Reported 34 times (361 total reports)
Bug in the Intel IWL wireless drivers
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc7-git1, and first seen in 2.6.25-rc2-git5.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=rs_get_rate

Rank 13: ext3_commit_super (warning)
Reported 27 times (1069 total reports)
Likely caused by the user removing a USB stick while mounted
Ted has a patch to fix this, not merged yet.
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.27, and first seen in 2.6.24.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ext3_commit_super


Fixed in Linus' tree
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Rank 2: ata_sff_hsm_move (warning)
Reported 420 times (1019 total reports)
[fixed] redundant WARN_ON; fixed in 9c2676b61a5a4b6d99e65fb2f438fb3914302eda
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc2-git1, and first seen in 2.6.25.4.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ata_sff_hsm_move

Rank 7: run_timer_softirq (oops)
Reported 90 times (205 total reports)
softlockup that got fixed by Thomas' timer fixes
This oops was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc1-git4, and first seen in 2.6.25.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=run_timer_softirq

Rank 8: __netif_schedule (warning)
Reported 88 times (694 total reports)
[fixed] issue as a result of the multiqueue feature, fixed for 2.6.27-rc1
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.27-rc0-git11, and first seen in 2.6.26-rc8-git.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=__netif_schedule


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