2.6.19-rc6: known regressions (v3)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc6 compared to 2.6.18
that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.

If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly
involved with one or more of these issues.

Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.


Subject    : kernel hangs when booting with irqpoll
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/20/233
Submitter  : Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : x86_64: Bad page state in process 'swapper'
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/135
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/208
Submitter  : Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Handled-By : David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : x86_64: oprofile doesn't work
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/3
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/92
Submitter  : Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Status     : problem is being discussed


Subject    : cpufreq notification broken
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/16/177
Submitter  : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
Caused-By  : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
             commit b4dfdbb3c707474a2254c5b4d7e62be31a4b7da9
Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
             Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
             Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
             Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Status     : patches are being discussed


Subject    : CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y compile error
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/17/198
Submitter  : alex1000@comcast.net
Caused-By  : Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
             commit 05ca0350e8caa91a5ec9961c585c98005b6934ea
Handled-By : Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/17/236
Status     : patch available


Subject    : nasty ACPI regression, AE_TIME errors
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/12
Submitter  : David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Handled-By : Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
             Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : ThinkPad R50p: boot fail with (lapic && on_battery)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/31/333
Submitter  : Ernst Herzberg <earny@net4u.de>
Handled-By : Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


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