On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 5:43 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 5:33 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 05:31:14PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:33 PM Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > ChrisM, could you try with the patch below, and see if it works > > > > > for you - I hope it doesn't just give you a blank screen. > > > > > > > > Did this. Does compile, and boot, no blank screen, and webkitgtk > > > > compiles without error (it ends in OOM, as expected). > > > > > > ... but the OOM doesn't point back to i915's shmem functions any more? > > > > It doesn't, but... > > > > I'm going to redo the test because Fedora Workstation 32 enables > > earlyoom by default, and that's what triggered the OOM. Not the > > kernel's oomkiller. But in the original report, earlyoom was also > > enabled but not triggered, yet I got the reported splats. > > Completes, no splats. (And no OOM.) Great, thanks a lot for reporting and testing, Chris: patch coming up in reply to this - effectively the same as the patch you're using for 5.7 (and which we shall use for stable backports), but 5.8-rc1 looks a little different thereabouts. Hugh
