Re: DRM Error on Acer Aspire One

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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 08:22:49 +1000
> Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:10:01 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 11 May 2010 19:52:31 +0100
>> >> Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:35:55 -0400, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > > No, io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() cannot be used from [soft]irq context:
>> >> > > it hardwires use of KM_USER0. __I suggest that io_mapping_create_wc(),
>> >> > > io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() etc be changed so that the caller passes in the
>> >> > > KM_foo kmap slot index.
>> >> >
>> >> > Argh, sorry for the noise, read the mail in the wrong order. Thanks for
>> >> > the review. It would be sensible to go with your simpler patch whilst
>> >> > io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() is improved.
>> >>
>> >> OK. __I'll be sending a bunch of fixes Linuswards in an hour or two.
>> >> Should I include this?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>> >
>> > Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>>
>> I'm not sure pushing this in at this point is a good idea, if I'm
>> reading it correctly we've no idea what KM_IRQ is being used for,
>
> It's used for taking kmaps from IRQ contexts.
>
>> and
>> this codepath is called from non-irq contexts just as much as irq
>> contexts.
>
> That's fine.  As long as we do a local_irq_disable(), KM_IRQ0 can be
> used from both irq- and non-irq contexts.  All we need to do is to
> ensure that some interrupt cannot come along on this CPU and corrupt
> the slot.

I don't think we do that in a lot of places, and I'd rather not add
that in to fix this problem at this point in the release cycle, as
we've no idea what it might break/regress.

Its easier to just disable the hangcheck copy and try again for 2.6.35
with a workqueue or slow work.

Dave



>
>> I'd rather we just backout the hangcheck stuff touching copies at all
>> at this point, and try again doing it properly with a slow work or
>> something for later.
>>
>> Dave.
>
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