On Mon, 15 Jul 2024, Francesco Poli <invernomuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > on a laptop where I installed Debian testing some 6 months ago, > I noticed that the logs are continuously flooded with call traces > like the attached snippet (taken from /var/log/kern.log ). > > It seems to me that it also used to happen with previous versions > of the Linux kernel, but I am under the impression that, with Linux > kernel 6.9.7, it got worse. I have recently upgraded to Linux kernel > version 6.9.8 (provided by the distro, Debian testing, as I said), but > the bug is still reproducible: > > $ uname -srvmo > Linux 6.9.8-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.9.8-1 (2024-07-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I see at least 12 of these call traces just after boot, before even > starting X (with 'startx'). > More of these call traces are sent to the logs after starting X, or > after invoking 'xrandr', or after locking the X session (with > XScreenSaver), ... > I always see these call traces (I mean the bug is always reproducible: > each time I boot, each time I call xrandr, ...). > > They seem to correspond to no actual issue, as far as I can tell, > but they are flooding the logs with a significant flow of text... > which is worrying by itself. > > > What's wrong? > How can I stop this log-filling flood? > Should I black-list some module, for instance? > > > The outputs of > > # lspci -vnn -d :*:0300 > > and of > > # dmidecode > > are attached. > Also, I booted with kernel parameters > 'drm.debug=0xe log_buf_len=4M ignore_loglevel' and > logged in as root right after the boot. > The output of > > # dmesg > > is attached. > > Some additional information may be found on the [Debian bug] report I had previously filed. > > [Debian bug]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1075770> > > > N.B.: > Please Cc me and the Debian bug address <1075770@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > on replies, so that the interested parties (including me!) are kept > in the loop. > Thanks a lot for your time and for any help you may provide! Please file i915 bugs at fdo gitlab as described at [1]. BR, Jani. [1] https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/intel-docs/how-to-file-i915-bugs.html -- Jani Nikula, Intel
