Linux regressions report for mainline [2023-06-18]

From: Regzbot (on behalf of Thorsten Leemhuis)
Date: Sun Jun 18 2023 - 10:55:00 EST


Hi Linus. Things look mostly normal on the regression front. But as we
are nearing the final a few more words from my side than usual:

* I already mentioned in an earlier mail that there is a series of mm
reverts in next where my brain said "hmmm, Andrew merged those more than
a week ago to mm-hotfixes-unstable and -rc7 is due today; I don't see a
PR from him and wonder if these revert are something that better should
be in rc7 to help preventing a rc8?" so I thought I mention it here so
that you can take a look yourself if you got curious:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230609081518.3039120-1-qi.zheng@xxxxxxxxx/
(for the backstory see the two links in that mail)

* it's afaics nothing that will bother many people, but switching to
asynchronous probe broke the Dragonboard 845c (SDM845). People are still
discussing how to properly fix this:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMi1Hd1avQDcDQf137m2auz2znov4XL8YGrLZsw5edb-NtRJRw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fbe5138f-fe97-11ee-a14a-4bb447c0972a@xxxxxxxxxx/

* Currently looks a lot like a regression in 9p that causes MPTCP tests
to be unstable won't be fixed within the next week or two:
https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/855a232a-76d3-7e7b-b2b5-2ebc41bcadd6@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/CAFkjPTnAV6Rngwn6voCF332CX%2BeUyeJd7U0GcYn9BbkBqcTkHA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

* a tpm/ppc/kexec issue reported a few days ago is investigated:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/99B81401-DB46-49B9-B321-CF832B50CAC3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

* for completeness: I expect you will get "tick/common: Align tick
period during sched_timer setup" from the tip folks today.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230615091830.RxMV2xf_@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613134105.GA10301@xxxxxxxxxx/

Ciao, Thorsten

P.S. Sorry, I didn't got around to send a regression report last week, I
was on a short vacation and came back home one day later than expected.

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Hi, this is regzbot, the Linux kernel regression tracking bot.

Currently I'm aware of 6 regressions in linux-mainline. Find the
current status below and the latest on the web:

https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/mainline/

Bye bye, hope to see you soon for the next report.
Regzbot (on behalf of Thorsten Leemhuis)


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current cycle (v6.3.. aka v6.4-rc), culprit identified
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[ *NEW* ] mm: problems with the SRCU changeover (two reverts pending)
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https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx/

By kernel test robot; 26 days ago; 33 activities, latest 0 days ago.
Introduced in f95bdb700bc6 (v6.4-rc1)

Fix incoming:
* Revert "mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d8e0e211-6e2c-6aba-9ffd-84833872f559@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/


regulator: qcom-rpmh: Dragonboard 845c broken due to asynchronous probe
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https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/CAMi1Hd1avQDcDQf137m2auz2znov4XL8YGrLZsw5edb-NtRJRw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMi1Hd1avQDcDQf137m2auz2znov4XL8YGrLZsw5edb-NtRJRw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

By Amit Pundir; 35 days ago; 48 activities, latest 1 days ago.
Introduced in ad44ac082fd (v6.4-rc1)

Recent activities from: Amit Pundir (9), Krzysztof Kozlowski (7), Doug
Anderson (7), Mark Brown (2), Linux regression tracking (Thorsten
Leemhuis) (1)

One patch associated with this regression:
* Re: [PATCH] regulator: qcom-rpmh: Revert "regulator: qcom-rpmh: Use PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/552345c5-b1e9-41f6-f275-b6eeeb51df25@xxxxxxxxxx/
35 days ago, by Caleb Connolly

Noteworthy links:
* [PATCH] Revert "regulator: qcom-rpmh: Revert "regulator: qcom-rpmh: Use PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS""
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230515145323.1693044-1-amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx/
33 days ago, by Amit Pundir; thread monitored.
* [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-db845c: Move LVS regulator nodes up
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230602161246.1855448-1-amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx/
15 days ago, by Amit Pundir; thread monitored.


[ *NEW* ] sched/clock: printk.time causes rare kernel boot hangs
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https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20230613134105.GA10301@xxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613134105.GA10301@xxxxxxxxxx/

By Richard W.M. Jones; 5 days ago; 44 activities, latest 3 days ago.
Introduced in f31dcb152a3d (v6.4-rc1)

Fix incoming:
* tick/common: Align tick period during sched_timer setup
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1413638e-9614-056e-cfc5-5f9c8bf8af00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/


[ *NEW* ] tpm/ppc: crash during a kexec
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https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/99B81401-DB46-49B9-B321-CF832B50CAC3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/99B81401-DB46-49B9-B321-CF832B50CAC3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

By Sachin Sant; 3 days ago; 3 activities, latest 3 days ago.
Introduced in bd8621ca1510 (v6.4-rc1)

Recent activities from: Sachin Sant (2), Michael Ellerman (1)

One patch associated with this regression:
* Re: [6.4-rc6] Crash during a kexec operation (tpm_amd_is_rng_defective)
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87o7lhfmoh.fsf@mail.lhotse/
3 days ago, by Michael Ellerman


[ *NEW* ] 9p: MPTCP tests regressions due to new 9p features in v6.4
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https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/855a232a-76d3-7e7b-b2b5-2ebc41bcadd6@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/855a232a-76d3-7e7b-b2b5-2ebc41bcadd6@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

By Matthieu Baerts; 12 days ago; 5 activities, latest 4 days ago.
Introduced in d9bc0d11e33b (v6.4-rc1)

Recent activities from: Matthieu Baerts (3), Eric Van Hensbergen (1),
evanhensbergen@xxxxxxxxxx (1)


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on back burner, but with activity since the last report
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[ *NEW* ] mm: performance regression on shell-heavy workloads
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https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20230608111408.s2minsenlcjow7q3@quack3/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230608111408.s2minsenlcjow7q3@quack3/

By Jan Kara; 10 days ago; 6 activities, latest 9 days ago.
Introduced in f1a7941243c (v6.2-rc1)

Recent activities from: Shakeel Butt (2), Jan Kara (2), Dennis Zhou (1),
Yu Zhao (1)


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End of report
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All regressions marked '[ *NEW* ]' were added since the previous report,
which can be found here:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/168588069830.1422846.3733273600224627850@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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