netdev - Re: 2.6.29-git13: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

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Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM List <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-git13: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13019
> Subject		: /proc/<pid>/maps offset output broken in 2.6.29
> Submitter	: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
> Date		: 2009-04-01 23:18 (6 days old)
> References	: http://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=123862902916059&w=4
> Handled-By	: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>

I don't think that's a regression, nor really a bug. It looks cosmetic, 
and likely to be fixed, but not really worth worrying about.

> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13018
> Subject		: 2.6.29 on MacBook 2,1 fails to reboot
> Submitter	: Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@...il.com>
> Date		: 2009-03-30 2:04 (8 days old)
> References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123837870307249&w=4
> Handled-By	: "Morten P.D. Stevens" <mstevens@...-professional.com>

This went through bisection, but looking at the email log, I tend to 
suspect that maybe Trenton marked some versions good even though they 
weren't (because they got versions numbers from v2.6.27), and didn't 
realize that that messes up bisection in a big way.

The bug _sounds_ like some deadlock due to lock problems - the shutdown 
path often triggers locks that no other path really cares about. And we 
had some lock problems in the sound subsystem that got fixed post-2.6.28, 
for example. 

And it looks like the problem is somewhere in sound shutdown:

12181 delete_module("snd_hda_codec", O_RDONLY|O_EXCL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) <0.000011>

So commits like 91054598f794fb5d8a0b1e747ff8e2e8fc2115b3 ("ALSA: pcm_oss, 
fix locking typo") might explain it.

		Linus
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