RE: Special regressions report for the pending 5.16 release

From: Deucher, Alexander
Date: Fri Jan 07 2022 - 11:24:38 EST


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 5:59 AM
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>; Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>;
> wsa@xxxxxxxxxx; Limonciello, Mario <Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxx>;
> Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher@xxxxxxx>; Koenig, Christian
> <Christian.Koenig@xxxxxxx>; Pan, Xinhui <Xinhui.Pan@xxxxxxx>; Linux
> Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Special regressions report for the pending 5.16 release
>
> Hi Linus,
>
>
>
> a quick brief manual regressions report, as I assume you'll likely release 5.16
> soon and thus might find this helpful. Below is a list of remaining regressions
> in 5.16-rc I'm currently aware of.
>
>
> regressions where a fix exists
>
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>
> * This fix afaics is not yet mainlined:
>
> [PATCH] md/raid1: fix missing bitmap update w/o WriteMostly devices
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Fall%2F20220103230401.180704-1-
> song%40kernel.org%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Calexander.deucher%40amd.
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>
>
> But I'm pretty sure Jens (CCed) will send it onwards soon:
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Fall%2F499b185d-ff9a-934e-7768-
> ec796244fa1a%40kernel.dk%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Calexander.deucher
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>
>
> * There is an open regression "Applications that need amdgpu doesn't run
> after waking up from suspend":
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Fall%2F1295184560.182511.1639075777725%40mail.yahoo.com%
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> ;reserved=0
>
>
>
> Wolfram (CCed) plans to revert a i2c commit to fix it, but I'm not sure if he
> plans to send in onwards for 5.16 (or if that would be a good idea at all):
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Flkml%2F20220106122452.18719-1-
> wsa%40kernel.org%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Calexander.deucher%40amd.
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>
>
> * There are suspend and resume problems related to amdgpu:
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugz
> illa.kernel.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D215436&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cal
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>
> Mario (CCed) recently found the root cause and came up with a fix, but it
> likely needs a little more time to bake:
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Fall%2FBL1PR12MB5157F21C23A020052FF5C13BE24C9%40BL1PR
> 12MB5157.namprd12.prod.outlook.com%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Calexan
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>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Fall%2F20220106163054.13781-3-
> mario.limonciello%40amd.com%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Calexander.deuch
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> no fix in sight
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> * screen contents do get restored after some input events (so it doesn't stay
> blank).
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugz
> illa.kernel.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D215203&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cal
> exander.deucher%40amd.com%7Ce1087ce64824412faec908d9d1ccbaf1%7C3
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> (related:
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitla
> b.freedesktop.org%2Fdrm%2Famd%2F-
> %2Fissues%2F1840&amp;data=04%7C01%7Calexander.deucher%40amd.com
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>
>
>
> Alex (CCed) is trying hard to find a fix for, but afaics needs more time.

I already sent a workaround to restore the previous behavoir. It's on its way to Linus in Dave's last -fixes PR. We are working on a proper fix hopefully for 5.17.

Alex

>
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> Need more time to analyse
>
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>
>
>
> I'm aware of two more reports that afaics need (a lot?) more time to
> analyse:
>
>
>
> * suspend issues for a user that faces another regression that might
> interfer:
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Flinux-
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> illa.kernel.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D215427&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cal
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>
>
> * 5-10% increase in IO latencies with nohz balance patch
>
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.
> kernel.org%2Flkml%2FYaUH5GFFoLiS4%252F3%252F%40localhost.localdomai
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>
> Closing words
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> HTH, ciao, Thorsten