linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc6: i915: Xserver crash

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:37:07 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eric@...olt.net,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc6: i915: Xserver crash - oops after rmmod

On Thu, 28 May 2009 07:13:57 +0200
Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 05/28/2009 02:14 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:21:18 +0200
> > Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>     
> > Huge response, huh?
> >   
> Yeah, no one fell for the humour coating... ;-)
> 
> > The wordwrapping makes this painful to read.
> >
> > rmmod crashed under drivers/acpi/video.c:acpi_video_exit()'s call to
> > acpi_bus_unregister_driver().  So it might be an acpi-related bug.
> >
> > If it's reproducible at all, please raise a (non-wordwrapped!)
> > report against acpi at bugzilla.kernel.org, thanks.
> >   
> Ugh, Thunderbird doesn't format it like this when you preview - but
> when I save it to a file it looks horrible...
> 
> I don't think I would easily be able to reproduce this, but I still
> had a copy of my kernel log for that date. The bug is filed at:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13396
> 
> Also, if you do have a moment, I'd love to hear your opinion on my
> post "2.6.29.4: hibernation fails with large kernel trace"!
> 
> Thanks for the response!

Btw I think this is fixed now (I noticed it recently but it's gone
now).  IIRC it was a bug caused by trying to uninit the ACPI video
portion of the driver twice at unload time.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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