From: Alan Cox <alan@terrorserver.swansea.linux.org.uk> Subject: 2.2.0 Bug summary Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 01:46:20 GMT To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com Ok this is the collated 'bad bug set', also the -ac diffs divided up into the relevant sections Unfixed and definitely needing fixes o TCP slow performance problem is still not merged from DaveM o Run two processes that keep rejoining multicast groups on an SMP box - crash o Spam the box remotely with syn floods and other crap, it leaks memory o select/poll magically break at some number of handles without an error o Procfs has locking errors on mm's o IDE probe often guesses wrong. Linux is impossible to install on these ranges of PCs. Needs fixing badly. o isdn4linux is old not CVS version. Basically unusable. If its not changing for 2.2.0 it should be commented out or deleted o eata-dma driver crashes the machine if at any instant it cant grab atomic isa dma memory. (Possible fix mark it obsolete and use eata.c which works fine) o Video4linux bttv tends to crash machines grabbing - fix around needs merging and the driver updating o You can't mount an ext2fs cdrom. (Block size error). Works in 2.0 o generic_file_mmap and MSDOS/UMSDOS disagree over who clears blocks o bootp autobooting stuff corrupts other hosts arp stuff it seems o DaveM reports a pile of VMA operations done without locks held. o IDE defaults to multimode on causing serial problems, corruption with some drives, and hangs on boot with others. o Dual 486 boards won't boot SMP kernels o Tulip driver/fast routing stuff needs to be resolved. If they cant be merged the default tulip should be a current one. Unfixed but not vital o NFS client over tcp doesnt work o NFS readahead is too low o NFS performance to 8K page sized BSD boxes sucks rocks, 2.0.x is about 5 times faster o Linus VM is still 20% slower than sct vm on an 8Mb machine [benchmarks kernel build and netscape] o fchmod on AF_UNIX sockets doesnt work like BSD o IPv6 calls set_multicast_list in the wrong context o TCP fails to handle small SO_SNDBUF/RCVBUF settings o Make xconfig needs layout fixes o Need to review all CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL tags Fixed in -ac patches For Linus: o AVL tree vm avoids bad perfomance problems o MediaGX crashes on boot o Certain numbers of scsi disks dont seem to work o VFS clears setuid/gid flags wrongly on directories o COSA credited twice o string.h egcs fixes o Some further time fixes o Various time fixes submitted o KNFSD patches. With them knfsd seems to work ok. With the current tree it doesnt work at all. Probably this is "Experimental for 2.2" o AMD stepping ident, K6 ident o What the hell is going on in time.c, on a low memory box picking 586 gives better performance for a 486 and several other chips without TSC registers. That patch piece is a bad way to save 1K o Various config combinations don't build o FTAPE doesnt work in .132/2.2.0pre o Various of the time_* changes to net/* are one out o Ted's last serial patch is missing (setserial crashes box) o IBMMCA doesnt work on the model 77 internal scsi o Trond's last NFS fix o include/linux/sysctl.h is exposed to user tasks even with glibc, but isnt strictly ANSI compliant o SYS5 shm debugging slows stuff down measurably -ifdef it o DVD's trip an isofs sanity check wrongly Unsure: o Large file array support (will be required by vendors for several big name products). This is a tricky one. Im wearing too many hats to judge this objectively. Vendors will probably ship this anyway or something similar. Linus doesnt want: o QlogicFC - no big problem, its seperate its clean and vendors can ship it and other driver addons easily as they do now. Its a nobrainer to install of the net. Stale ?: o ADFS updates o Load unversioned modules into versioned kernels when doing request_module etc. o Crashes and zero page scribbles using ptrace.
2.2.0 Bug summary
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