linux-kernel - Re: Revert 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4170852473a4fcc9c67e8 ?

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:01:42 +0100
From:	Andy Furniss <andyqos@...sn.org>
To:	Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
CC:	Gabriel Paubert <paubert@...m.es>, KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Greg@...edesktop.org,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Revert 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4170852473a4fcc9c67e8 ?

Michel Dänzer wrote:

>>> That does sound like the GPU locks up. Do you get any messages in dmesg
>>> about lockups and attempts to reset the GPU at any time?
>>
>> No.
>
> Hmm, I guess the constant SIGALRMs might prevent the lockup detection
> from kicking in... Maybe you can try starting the X server with
> -dumbSched to see if that gets things along any further, but in the end
> there's probably no way around figuring out what causes the lockup and
> fixing that anyway.

I have an old AGP box that locks with 600g + agpgart - It used to give 
GPU lockup to dmesg/log, but (I only test it occasionally) it doesn't 
anymore. I can still sysrq OK.

I wonder if something changed in recent months in the drm/whatever code 
that has changed/blocked the logging.
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