On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 05:19:20PM +0400, Kirill Smelkov wrote: > Hello Chris, everyone, > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 04:40:17PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:23:53 -0400, "Luke-Jr" <luke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:41:45 AM Chris Wilson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:56 -0700, Ray Lee <ray-lk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > [ Adding Chris Wilson (author of the problematic patch) and Rafael > > > > > Wysocki to the message ] > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Luke-Jr <luke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I submitted https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33662 a month > > > > > > ago against 2.6.38. Now 2.6.39 was just released without the > > > > > > regression being addressed. This bug makes the system unusable... Some > > > > > > guys on IRC suggested I > > > > > > email, so here it is. > > > > > > > > > > See the bugzilla entry for the bisection history. > > > > > > > > Which has nothing to do with Luke's bug. Considering the thousand things > > > > that can go wrong during X starting, without a hint as to which it is nigh > > > > on impossible to debug except by trial and error. If you set up > > > > netconsole, does the kernel emit an OOPS with it's last dying breath? > > > > > > Why assume it's a different bug? I would almost wonder if it might affect > > > all Sandy Bridge GPUs. In any case, I no longer have the original > > > motherboard (it was recalled, as I said in the first post), nor even the > > > revision of it (it had other issues that weren't being fixed). I *assume* I > > > will have the same problem with my new motherboard (Intel DQ67SW), but I > > > haven't verified that yet. I'll be sure to try a netconsole when I have to > > > reboot next and get a chance to try the most recent 2.6.38 and .39 kernels, > > > but at the moment it seems reasonable to address the problem bisected in the > > > bug, even if it turns out to be different. > > > > The bisection is into an old DRI1 bug on 945GM. That DRI has inadequate > > locking between release and IRQ and so is prone to such races as befell > > Kirill should not surprise anyone. As neither UMS nor DRI supported SNB, > > I can quite confidently state they are separate bugs. > > -Chris > > I see DRI1 is maybe buggy and old, but still, pre-kms X used to work ok > on kernels < 2.6.38, and starting from 2.6.38 the system is just > unusable because X either crashes the kernel (2.6.38), or does not start > at all (2.6.39): > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36052 > > > It's a regression. It's blocking me to upgrade to newer kernels. I've > done my homework -- digged it and came with detailed OOPS on netconsole > and bisected to single commit. Could this please be fixed? Silence... Still, reverting the bisected patch helps even for 3.0: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36052#c4 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
