linux: 3.2.0-30.47 -proposed tracker

Bug #1036581 reported by Luis Henriques
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1041217: linux: 3.2.0-30.48 -proposed tracker. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

This bug is for tracking the 3.2.0-30.47 upload package. This bug will contain status and testing results related to that upload.

For an explanation of the tasks and the associated workflow see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/kernel-sru-workflow
kernel-stable-Prepare-package-start:Tuesday, 14. August 2012 10:15 UTC
kernel-stable-Prepare-package-end:Monday, 20. August 2012 07:09 UTC
kernel-stable-Promote-to-proposed-start:Monday, 20. August 2012 07:09 UTC
kernel-stable-Promote-to-proposed-end:Tuesday, 21. August 2012 00:02 UTC
kernel-stable-phase:Verification
kernel-stable-phase-changed:Tuesday, 21. August 2012 01:34 UTC
kernel-stable-Verification-testing-start:Tuesday, 21. August 2012 01:33 UTC

Luis Henriques (henrix)
tags: added: kernel-release-tracking-bug
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: precise
Changed in kernel-sru-workflow:
status: New → In Progress
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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote : Packages are ready for -proposed

All builds are complete, packages in this bug can be copied to -proposed.

Derivative packages from packages here can be worked on, the following tracking bugs were opened for them:
linux-ti-omap4 - bug 1038887
linux-armadaxp - bug 1038889

description: updated
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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

Copied to -proposed, overrides should be correct in an hour.

Brad Figg (brad-figg)
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Brad Figg (brad-figg)
description: updated
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Ike Panhc (ikepanhc) wrote :
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On testing precise-30.47 on highbank machine, we found that tasks hang or slower much then it was. The root cause is one patch from 3.2.27 stable update

commit 43d4dac961083f374f13cacc48cdb49767d922dd
Author: Will Deacon <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 13 19:15:40 2012 +0100

    ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+

    BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1035435

    commit a76d7bd96d65fa5119adba97e1b58d95f2e78829 upstream.

    The open-coded mutex implementation for ARMv6+ cores suffers from a
    severe lack of barriers, so in the uncontended case we don't actually
    protect any accesses performed during the critical section.

    Furthermore, the code is largely a duplication of the ARMv6+ atomic_dec
    code but optimised to remove a branch instruction, as the mutex fastpath
    was previously inlined. Now that this is executed out-of-line, we can
    reuse the atomic access code for the locking (in fact, we use the xchg
    code as this produces shorter critical sections).

    This patch uses the generic xchg based implementation for mutexes on
    ARMv6+, which introduces barriers to the lock/unlock operations and also
    has the benefit of removing a fair amount of inline assembly code.

And Will Deacon also have a fix for this regression

commit 0bce9c46bf3b15f485d82d7e81dabed6ebcc24b1
Author: Will Deacon <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 10 15:22:09 2012 +0100

    mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure

    ARM recently moved to asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h for its mutex
    implementation after the previous implementation was found to be missing
    some crucial memory barriers. However, this has revealed some problems
    running hackbench on SMP platforms due to the way in which the
    MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER code operates.

    The symptoms are that a bunch of hackbench tasks are left waiting on an
    unlocked mutex and therefore never get woken up to claim it. This boils
    down to the following sequence of events:

            Task A Task B Task C Lock value
    0 1
    1 lock() 0
    2 lock() 0
    3 spin(A) 0
    4 unlock() 1
    5 lock() 0
    6 cmpxchg(1,0) 0
    7 contended() -1
    8 lock() 0
    9 spin(C) 0
    10 unlock() 1
    11 cmpxchg(1,0) 0
    12 unlock() 1

    At this point, the lock is unlocked, but Task B is in an uninterruptible
    sleep with nobody to wake it up.

    This patch fixes the problem by ensuring we put the lock into the
    contended state if we fail to acquire it on the fastpath, ensuring that
    any bloc...

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Ike Panhc (ikepanhc) wrote :

Please refer to bug 1041114

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.2.0-30.48

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linux (3.2.0-30.48) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1041217

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure
    - LP: #1041114

linux (3.2.0-30.47) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1036581

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * add support for generating binary device trees and install them in
    /lib/firmware
    - LP: #1030600
  * [Config] add dtb_file configuration for highbank
    - LP: #1030600

  [ Chris Van Hoof ]

  * SAUCE: dell-laptop: additional rfkill blacklist Dell XPS 13
    - LP: #1030957
  * [Config] Add cifs support to the nfs-modules list
    - LP: #1031398

  [ Daniel P. Berrange ]

  * SAUCE: (drop after 3.6) Forbid invocation of kexec_load() outside
    initial PID namespace
    - LP: #1034125

  [ Dann Frazier ]

  * [Config] Compile the rtc-pl031 driver builtin on the highbank kernel
    flavour
    - LP: #1035110

  [ Douglas Bagnall ]

  * SAUCE: Unlock the rc_dev lock when the raw device is missing
    - LP: #1015836

  [ Rob Herring ]

  * SAUCE: ARM: highbank: add soft power and reset key event handling
    - LP: #1033853
  * SAUCE: ARM: highbank: use writel_relaxed variant for pwr requests
    - LP: #1033853
  * SAUCE: ahci: un-staticize ahci_dev_classify
    - LP: #1033853
  * SAUCE: ahci_platform: add custom hard reset for Calxeda ahci ctrlr
    - LP: #1033853

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * (pre-stable) KVM: VMX: Set CPU_BASED_RDPMC_EXITING for nested
    - LP: #1031090

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] updateconfigs

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * ideapad: generate valid key event only
    - LP: #1029834
  * mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: allow compaction to isolate dirty pages
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without
    blocking within ->migratepage
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations
    while compaction is deferred
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient
    free pages available
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: check if reclaim should really abort even if
    compaction_ready() is true for one zone
    - LP: #1032640
  * vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages
    - LP: #1032640
  * vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm/vmscan.c: consider swap space when deciding whether to continue
    reclaim
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: test PageSwapBacked in lumpy reclaim
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists
    - LP: #1032640
  * cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm/hugetlb: fix warni...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Fix Released
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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