linux-kernel - Re: DRM oops while starting second X.org session in chroot

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Date:	Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:50:40 +0100
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	airlied@...ux.ie
Subject: Re: DRM oops while starting second X.org session in chroot

On Sunday 15 March 2009, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl> wrote:
> > I had the oops below today after I tried to start a second X.org
> > session in a chroot using 'startx -- :1'. I think the problem here is
> > that the driver was loaded, but that the corresponding device did not
> > exist in /dev in the chroot (forgot to bind mount it). If that is the
> > cause, it would be nice if it was handled more gracefully than this
> > :-P
>
> Its a bug in userspace we can't do anything about at this point,
>
> The problem is we attach some information to the device inode and if
> you starting using an alternate inode it screws up, I think Thomas had
> suggested ways aruond this.
> We could probably make it a WARN_ON and fail DRI setup. 

Yes, that's what I'd expect. At least not allow it to hang the primairy X 
session. I understand that you cannot magically make DRI work in this 
situation.

Note that I did start X.Org successfully in the chroot a bit earlier when 
I did have /dev/ bind mounted to /<mychroot>/dev/.
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