On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> Hey everybody, there's finally a new -rc out there..
>
> I've been back online for a week, and at least judging by the kinds of
> patches and pull requests I've been getting, I have to say that I
> think that having been strict for -rc3 ended up working out pretty
> well. The diffstat of rc3..rc4 looks quite reasonable, despite the
> longer window between rc's. And while there were certainly some things
> that needed fixing, I'm hoping that we'll have a timely 2.6.35 release
> despite my vacation (my longest time away from the kernel in many
> years, I do believe - I followed email on a cellphone, but did not a
> single kernel compile, and had a great time under water).
>
> So go out and test -rc4. It fixes a number of regressions, a couple of
> them harking back to from before 2.6.34. Networking, cfq, i915 and
> radeo. And filesystem writeback performance issues, etc. It's all
> good.

I'm facing some drm issue with -rc4, my x-windows is messed up and can
not be used. I got floods of following messages, kernel config is
attached. I have the same issue on -mmotm-rc3.

[   34.532132] BUG: scheduling while atomic: plymouthd/177/0x00000002
[   34.532133] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[   34.532135] Modules linked in: radeon(+) ttm drm_kms_helper drm
i2c_algo_bit i2c_core
[   34.532139] Pid: 177, comm: plymouthd Tainted: G      D   I 2.6.35-rc4+ #39
[   34.532141] Call Trace:
[   34.532144]  [<ffffffff8104361a>] __schedule_bug+0x77/0x7c
[   34.532146]  [<ffffffff814f9592>] schedule+0xd3/0x695
[   34.532149]  [<ffffffff81301fc9>] ? tty_release+0x301/0x602
[   34.532152]  [<ffffffff814fa64c>] __mutex_lock_common+0x29d/0x461
[   34.532154]  [<ffffffff81301fc9>] ? tty_release+0x301/0x602
[   34.532156]  [<ffffffff814fbebc>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x4a/0x57
[   34.532159]  [<ffffffff814fa8c5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x39/0x3e
[   34.532161]  [<ffffffff81301fc9>] tty_release+0x301/0x602
[   34.532164]  [<ffffffff8110a06b>] ? __cache_free+0x3a/0x1bc
[   34.532167]  [<ffffffff8111a636>] fput+0x135/0x1e2
[   34.532170]  [<ffffffff811177e5>] filp_close+0x68/0x72
[   34.532172]  [<ffffffff81052047>] put_files_struct+0xbd/0x171
[   34.532175]  [<ffffffff81052146>] exit_files+0x4b/0x53
[   34.532177]  [<ffffffff81053bb2>] do_exit+0x294/0x756
[   34.532180]  [<ffffffff81050bd6>] ? kmsg_dump+0x155/0x16f
[   34.532182]  [<ffffffff814fd6ec>] oops_end+0xbe/0xc6
[   34.532185]  [<ffffffff81033022>] no_context+0x1fc/0x20b
[   34.532188]  [<ffffffff810331c3>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x192/0x1b5
[   34.532196]  [<ffffffffa0023e39>] ? drm_fb_release+0x2f/0x7e [drm]
[   34.532199]  [<ffffffff810331f9>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x15
[   34.532201]  [<ffffffff814ff441>] do_page_fault+0x15d/0x283
[   34.532209]  [<ffffffffa0023e39>] ? drm_fb_release+0x2f/0x7e [drm]
[   34.532211]  [<ffffffff814fca25>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
[   34.532219]  [<ffffffffa0023e39>] ? drm_fb_release+0x2f/0x7e [drm]
[   34.532222]  [<ffffffff8127be8a>] ? __list_add+0x3f/0x81
[   34.532225]  [<ffffffff814fa4e0>] __mutex_lock_common+0x131/0x461
[   34.532233]  [<ffffffffa0023e39>] ? drm_fb_release+0x2f/0x7e [drm]
[   34.532239]  [<ffffffffa001b104>] ? drm_release+0x2bd/0x63e [drm]
[   34.532242]  [<ffffffff814fa8c5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x39/0x3e
[   34.532250]  [<ffffffffa0023e39>] drm_fb_release+0x2f/0x7e [drm]
[   34.532257]  [<ffffffffa001b1da>] drm_release+0x393/0x63e [drm]
[   34.532259]  [<ffffffff8111a636>] fput+0x135/0x1e2
[   34.532262]  [<ffffffff811177e5>] filp_close+0x68/0x72
[   34.532265]  [<ffffffff811178cb>] sys_close+0xdc/0x116
[   34.532268]  [<ffffffff81009cc2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

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