Special regressions report for the pending 5.16 release
From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Fri Jan 07 2022 - 05:59:14 EST
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://lore.kernel.org/all/20220103230401.180704-1-song@xxxxxxxxxx/
But I'm pretty sure Jens (CCed) will send it onwards soon:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/499b185d-ff9a-934e-7768-ec796244fa1a@xxxxxxxxx/
* There is an open regression "Applications that need amdgpu doesn't run
after waking up from suspend":
https://lore.kernel.org/all/1295184560.182511.1639075777725@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
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://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220106122452.18719-1-wsa@xxxxxxxxxx/
* There are suspend and resume problems related to amdgpu:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215436
Mario (CCed) recently found the root cause and came up with a fix, but
it likely needs a little more time to bake:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/BL1PR12MB5157F21C23A020052FF5C13BE24C9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220106163054.13781-3-mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx/
no fix in sight
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* screen contents do get restored after some input events (so it
doesn't stay blank).
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215203
(related: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1840 )
Alex (CCed) is trying hard to find a fix for, but afaics needs more time.
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://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/256689953.114854578.1640622738334.JavaMail.root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215427
* 5-10% increase in IO latencies with nohz balance patch
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YaUH5GFFoLiS4%2F3%2F@localhost.localdomain/
Closing words
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HTH, ciao, Thorsten