Re: Linus 2.6.29-rc4

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Feb 08 2009 - 20:21:01 EST


On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:01:04 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Another week (and a half), another -rc.
>
> Arch updates (sparc, blackfin), driver updates (dvb, mmc, ide), ACPI
> updates, FS updates (ubifs, btrfs), you name it. It's all there.
>
> But more importantly, people really have been working on regressions,
> and hopefully this closes a nice set of the top one, and hopefully
> without introducing too many new ones.
>
> Linus


I just looked at the top -rc3 oopses/warnings/etc

quick summary of the top ones:
(manual rather than the normal automated scripts, so the format is
different)
"regulars" that happened a lot prior to .29 (eg clearly non-regressions) I marked with a *

Oopses: 78 oopses reported
--------------------------
12 times i915_driver_irq_handler http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=i915_driver_irq_handler
8 times apic_mmio_read http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=apic_mmio_read


BUG/BUG_ON: 16 reports
--------------------------
6 times i915_gem_object_unpin http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?i915_gem_object_unpin
2 times __schedule http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?__schedule


WARN/WARN_ON/etc: 999 reports
-----------------------------------
213 times check_unmap http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=check_unmap
164 times last_sector_hacks http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=last_sector_hack
94 times *mpt_config http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=mpt_config
92 times reserve_pfn_range http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=reserve_pfn_range
79 times *init_ck804xrom http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=init_ck804xrom
56 times *iwl_set_dynamic_key http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=iwl_set_dynamic_key
39 times check_sync http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=check_sync
35 times track_pfn_vma_copy http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=track_pfn_vma_cop

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