Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
A couple of observations: * This bug will not cause hardware damage. The hard thermal cutoff temperature is well below the temperature at which actual damage will occur. * It's not clear that the vendor DSDT is broken. It's an unusual interpretation of the spec, but not necessarily an invalid

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
Hoi Bas, On Thursday 28 December 2006 20:15, you wrote: You wrote: forgot to ask you to for the ouput of dmidecode and acpidump. for the acpi blacklisting. Attached. Als de oplossing wordt om machines uit te sluiten, lijkt me dit wel een candidaat voor documentatie in de Release Notes.

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:52:06PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:40:58AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: I have reviewed the information available on the thermal problems with HP laptops, and it appears that there is a fairly conservative set of patches which

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread maximilian attems
hello, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm more than willing to help test a kernel package, but I'll be on [VAC] from 2006-12-23 to 2007-01-03 inclusive. So, please do not release Etch just now :) I have ordered an nx6325, which should

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread maximilian attems
hello, On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 09:46:04PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: At Jurij's request, I've tried out his patch. It seems to work perfectly here (HP nc6120) , and fixes the no fans after suspend problem of #400488. forgot to ask you to for the ouput of dmidecode and acpidump. for the

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-27 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:22:45AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: snipp why was that fact never rc for sarge? #259481, #262383 Discussing why it was not RC for Sarge seems pretty irrelevant to me. It's up to release managers what is RC, and Etch

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-27 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi! At Jurij's request, I've tried out his patch. It seems to work perfectly here (HP nc6120) , and fixes the no fans after suspend problem of #400488. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hi *, this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you know how expensive these laptops are. I basically see 3

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:09:02PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hi *, this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you know

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:40:58AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: I have reviewed the information available on the thermal problems with HP laptops, and it appears that there is a fairly conservative set of patches which takes care of the problems (thanks to Bas for pointing most of

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:09:02PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: So far I have not tried building the kernel with this patches, but I think this is a reasonable way to resolve the problem, as the resulting cumulative patch (attached) is only 19K. Sorry, I made this patch reversed by mistake.

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:52:06PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: backports are risky, again as you see for the net-r8169-1.patch, that is a localized driver enhancement with big slow down consequences #400524 and #403782. yes upstream has a fix for that and it should land soon, but still

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:22:45AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:52:06PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: backports are risky, again as you see for the net-r8169-1.patch, that is a localized driver enhancement with big slow down consequences #400524 and

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hi *, this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you know how expensive these laptops are. I basically see 3

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hi *, this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you know how expensive these laptops are. I basically see 3

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 24 December 2006 03:07, Frederik Schueler wrote: 2. port 2.6.19 ACPI - noop because way too much work, unless someone crazy enough to accomplish this task. Did you see that Bas Zoetekouw managed [1, #400488] to solve the problem for his box by applying some selected patches from

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case basis using drivers/acpi/blacklist.c This looks like a good idea to me, do we know

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case basis using drivers/acpi/blacklist.c This looks

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:48:27PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 03:07, Frederik Schueler wrote: 2. port 2.6.19 ACPI - noop because way too much work, unless someone crazy enough to accomplish this task. Did you see that Bas Zoetekouw managed [1, #400488] to solve the

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:31:15PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case basis

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-24 15:57]: Since HP supports Debian officially now not on laptops. I'm sure Dann or someone else from HP can provide us a list of affected models. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:42:46PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:31:15PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? It appears to

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:22, you wrote: This is exactly the same kind of argument you are using in d-i, don't you think ? There is a difference between being conservative with fixes for minor issues and fixes for issues that can fry peoples hardware, don't you think? Of course care is

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 05:42]: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:50:40AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 05:42]: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE'

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-23 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi *, this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you know how expensive these laptops are. I basically see 3 solutions/workarounds: 1. the brutal one: deactivate ACPI in 2.6.18, have the bios keep

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread maximilian attems
severity 404143 important tags 404143 upstream stop On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 Version: 2.6.18-7 Severity: grave Justification: hardware overheating hazard; requires periodic reboots (This is not the same bug as

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
severity 404143 serious thanks maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: severity 404143 important tags 404143 upstream stop [...] big nack, acpi has a huge potential destabilisation. at this time of the game adding acpi patches is pron to regression at unexpected corners. etch will

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Andreas Barth
severity 404143 critical thanks * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 01:27]: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consequence: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd63 (=2.6.18-7) is unsuitable for release. Failing for you don't makes it unsuitable. That is a true

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm more than willing to help test a kernel package, but I'll be on [VAC] from 2006-12-23 to 2007-01-03 inclusive. So, please do not release Etch just now :) I have ordered an nx6325, which should arrive directly after Christmas. I would also be happy to test a fixed

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Sorry, I don't accept this. We are talking about an *overheating* problem, which means *broken* hardware. There needs to be at least a fix documented in the release-notes. Garbage-in, garbage-out. The BIOS of that machines

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: severity 404143 critical thanks * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 01:27]: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consequence: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd63 (=2.6.18-7) is unsuitable for

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Sorry, I don't accept this. We are talking about an *overheating* problem, which means *broken* hardware. There needs to be at least a fix documented in the release-notes.

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Sorry, I don't accept this. We are talking about an *overheating* problem, which means *broken* hardware.

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread maximilian attems
severity 404143 important thanks On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: severity 404143 critical thanks This bug however has the potential to damage hardware. Which is a critical bug. yes, but it is a very specific affected hardware range. upstream did not issue a

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
severity 404143 critical thanks maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the current state is not releasable. we are not talking about a patch. what you need is an backport of

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:09:45PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Sorry, I don't accept this. We are

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Sven Luther writes: Euh, it seems to me more that the hardware has a bug which causes normal operation to damage it. As thus, i think that any damage done would be under the responsability of the manufacturer to repare or fix. This seems to be both the position of Bastian and Maximilian, and

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Ludovic Brenta
forward 400488 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7122 forward 404143 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534 thanks When I said there's a memory leak, that's not technically true. What happens is that ACPI events get piled up in a queue and never processed, due to a deadlock in

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 11:34]: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: severity 404143 critical thanks * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 01:27]: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consequence:

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: severity 404143 critical thanks maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the current state is not

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the current state is not

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Some more information. 1) On my machine, reading the temperature using, say, yacpi, causes one processor to process all the pending ACPI events. On a uniprocessor machine, the machine would appear to hang for several seconds; not so on my dual-core machine :) 2) The lare slab usage

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-21 Thread ludovic
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 Version: 2.6.18-7 Severity: grave Justification: hardware overheating hazard; requires periodic reboots (This is not the same bug as #400488 (upstream #7122)) This bug affects several amd64 notebooks from HP, notably the nx6125 and the nx6325; there may be