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* intel graphic card hanging (Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung) - 25
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http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/cf6012901770396c?hl=en
* [RESEND] x86: Do not write to VGA memory space if CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is
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TOPIC: intel graphic card hanging (Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung)
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/cf6012901770396c?hl=en
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== 1 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki"

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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15671
Subject : intel graphic card hanging (Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung)
Submitter : Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Date : 2010-03-27 16:11 (24 days old)
Message-ID : <20100327161104.GA12043@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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== 2 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15698
Subject : Freeze on power-off / suspend to ram
Submitter : arond <hector1987@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-04-05 13:53 (15 days old)

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== 3 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15669
Subject : INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check()
Submitter : Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-08 1:26 (43 days old)
Message-ID : <c4e36d111003250348q678eb2e6w4f3e8133e7fd6e58@mail.gmail.com>
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== 4 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15704
Subject : [r8169] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c
Submitter : Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-31 10:21 (20 days old)
Message-ID : <<20100331102142.GA3294@swordfish.minsk.epam.com>>
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== 5 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15664
Subject : Graphics hang and kernel backtrace when starting Azureus with Compiz enabled
Submitter : Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Date : 2010-04-01 01:09 (19 days old)

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== 6 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15711
Subject : 2.6.34-rc3, BUG at mm/slab.c:2989
Submitter : Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Date : 2010-04-01 17:52 (19 days old)
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== 7 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15553
Subject : Screen backlight doesn't come back on after lid was closed (GM45)
Submitter : <bugs@kaijauch.de>
Date : 2010-03-17 14:35 (34 days old)

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== 8 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15590
Subject : 2.6.34-rc1: regression: ^Z no longer stops sound
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2010-03-14 7:58 (37 days old)
Message-ID : <20100314075831.GA13457@elf.ucw.cz>
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== 9 of 25 ==
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Subject : [regression] 2.6.34-rc1 to -rc3 on zaurus: no longer boots
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2010-04-01 6:06 (19 days old)
Message-ID : <20100401060624.GA1329@ucw.cz>
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== 10 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15730
Subject : Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linux 2.6.34-rc3)
Submitter : Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Date : 2010-04-02 17:59 (18 days old)
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== 11 of 25 ==
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Subject : PROBLEM: crash on halt with 2.6.34-0.16.rc2.git0.fc14.x86_64
Submitter : Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Date : 2010-03-26 15:29 (25 days old)
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== 12 of 25 ==
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15668
Subject : start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early
Submitter : Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Date : 2010-03-25 19:53 (26 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://kernel.org/git/linus/773e3eb7b81e5ba13b5155dfb3bb75b8ce37f8f9
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== 13 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15812
Subject : utsname.domainname not set in x86_32 processes (causing "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: domain not bound" errors)
Submitter : <adi@hexapodia.org>
Date : 2010-04-19 21:28 (1 days old)

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== 14 of 25 ==
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15610
Subject : fsck leads to swapper - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference & panic
Submitter : Ozgur Yuksel <ozgur.yuksel@oracle.com>
Date : 2010-03-22 15:59 (29 days old)

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== 15 of 25 ==
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Subject : [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto
Submitter : michael-dev@fami-braun.de
Date : 2010-03-15 13:39 (36 days old)
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== 16 of 25 ==
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Subject : [2.6.34-rc1 REGRESSION] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: controller reset failed (0xffffffff)
Submitter : Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Date : 2010-04-06 22:54 (14 days old)
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== 17 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15788
Subject : external usb sound card doesn't work after resume
Submitter : François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be>
Date : 2010-04-15 10:16 (5 days old)

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== 18 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Subject : Failure with the 2.6.34-rc1 kernel
Submitter : Rupjyoti Sarmah <rsarmah@amcc.com>
Date : 2010-03-16 15:45 (35 days old)
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== 19 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15796
Subject : [REGRESSION bisected] Sound goes too fast due to commit 7b3a177b0
Submitter : Éric Piel <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Date : 2010-04-13 21:54 (7 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://kernel.org/git/linus/7b3a177b0d4f92b3431b8dca777313a07533a710
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Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15673
Subject : 2.6.34-rc2: "ima_dec_counts: open/free imbalance"?
Submitter : Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Date : 2010-03-28 11:31 (23 days old)
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Subject : virtio_net causing kernel BUG when running under VirtualBox
Submitter : Thomas Müller <thomas@mathtm.de>
Date : 2010-03-27 14:32 (24 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://kernel.org/git/linus/9ab86bbcf8be755256f0a5e994e0b38af6b4d399
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== 22 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15717
Subject : bluetooth oops
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date : 2010-03-14 20:14 (37 days old)
Message-ID : <20100314201434.GE22059@elf.ucw.cz>
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== 23 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15672
Subject : KVM bug, git bisected
Submitter : Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Date : 2010-03-27 12:43 (24 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://kernel.org/git/linus/5beb49305251e5669852ed541e8e2f2f7696c53e
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== 24 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
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Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15768
Subject : Incorrectly calculated free blocks result in ENOSPC from writepage
Submitter : Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Date : 2010-04-12 11:24 (8 days old)

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== 25 of 25 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:20 pm
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki"

On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:15:57 +0200 (CEST) "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15812
> > Subject : utsname.domainname not set in x86_32 processes (causing "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: domain not bound" errors)
> > Submitter : <adi@hexapodia.org>
> > Date : 2010-04-19 21:28 (1 days old)
>
> I merged hch's fix for this twelve seconds ago.

I updated the entry.
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TOPIC: [RESEND] x86: Do not write to VGA memory space if CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is
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http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/ab764f71aaa3e5b9?hl=en
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Date: Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:10 pm
From: "H. Peter Anvin"

On 04/19/2010 07:21 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 05:02:25PM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Hi Guenter,
>>
>> I wanted to check where we are at... at the very least we should drop
>> messages issued before initialization when isVGA != 1.
>>
>> Since serial ports require initialization, I really don't want to send
>> messages to the serial port before the port has been initialized, but
>> obviously it would be good to initialize earlyprintk as early as at all
>> possible.
>>
> Moving setup_early_printk() around may be possible, but I do not know
> the code good enough to take that risk. Even trying was a bad idea.
>
> I could submit a patch to add some protection into early_printk(),
> to ensure it does not write into VGA memory space if there is no VGA,
> and do that without changing current semantics - specifically, still
> write into VGA memory space even if setup_early_printk() was not called
> yet, but if boot_params.screen_info.orig_video_isVGA is set.
>
> I thought you indicated that you are opposed to changing the code,
> and it looks kind of clumsy, so I concluded that it was not worth
> trying again. Maybe I misunderstood - let me know.
>
> Guenter

I think writing into VGA memory if we know there is a VGA device is
there. I don't want to write to an uninitialized serial port, because
that can cause all kinds of problems.

But yes, dropping output to VGA if there isn't one makes a lot of sense.

-hpa
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