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Message-ID: <20090908151135.7ba64801@jbarnes-g45>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:11:35 -0700
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>, "Ma, Ling" <ling.ma@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Bug #13819] system freeze when switching to console
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:06:21 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, saw that. I don't think that's the root cause though. If we
> > see a user interrupt after gem_idle is called we may have serious
> > issues in our command handling code.
>
> Quite frankly, I do not understand why you seem to be making excuses
> for code that causes a very nasty and undebuggable oops, causing the
> machine to die.
No excuses. This is a serious bug; I just don't want to paper over it.
> This regression is almost two months old, and apparently the Intel
> graphics people DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it during those two
> months, because they couldn't be bothered to look at it.
Yeah sorry, this is the first I've seen of it... I usually troll the
regressions lists but I must have missed this one.
> And now, when I pinpointed exactly where the oops happens, and what
> the cause is, you seem to be trying to hold things up. I wanted to do
> the final 2.6.31 release yesterday, quite frankly I'm not in the
> _least_ interested in excuses, I'm interested in something that at
> least gets us back to the 2.6.30 state that doesn't oops!
>
> Get me a patch, please. If disabling the interrupts early won't work,
> get me something else. Stop delaying it - it's been pending for 48
> days already.
Sure, looking at it now.
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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