linux-kernel - Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:32:55 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:57:27 +0200, Jiri Slaby said:
> On 09/19/2007 09:54 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Yeah. (But X doesn't run -- this is maybe the known issue in this release)
.
> > 
> > What do you mean with not run? 
> 
> (II) intel(0): Initializing HW Cursor
> (II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x005ff000 (pgoffset 1535)
> (WW) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: binding of gart memory with key 0
>         at offset 0x5ff000 failed (Invalid argument)
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Couldn't bind memory for front buffer
> 
> I thought I'd seen a thread about this issue, but I can't find it now. Is it
> known or am I seeing ghosts yet, Andrew?

That would probably have been me, saying that x86_64-mm-cpa-clflush.patch broke
the NVidia graphics driver in 23-rc3-mm1.  Is it breaking *other* X drivers as
well?


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