... instead of looping endless with no hope of ever serving that page-fault. We only need to break out of this loop when the gpu died, to run the reset work (and hopefully resurrect it). This seems to have been lost in: commit d9bc7e9f32716901c617e1f0fb6ce0f74f172686 Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Mon Feb 7 13:09:31 2011 +0000 drm/i915: Fix infinite loop regression from 21dd3734 Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c index 7d28555..2b54142 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c @@ -1141,6 +1141,11 @@ unlock: out: switch (ret) { case -EIO: + /* If this -EIO is due to a gpu hang, give the reset code a + * chance to clean up the mess. Otherwise return the proper + * SIGBUS. */ + if (!atomic_read(&dev_priv->mm.wedged)) + return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; case -EAGAIN: /* Give the error handler a chance to run and move the * objects off the GPU active list. Next time we service the -- 1.7.10