linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] intel-agp.c: Fix crash when accessing nonexistent GTT entries in i915

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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:57:04 -0400
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:	Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David.Woodhouse@...el.com,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, eric@...olt.net, ben@...adent.org.uk,
	gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-agp.c: Fix crash when accessing nonexistent GTT 
 entries in i915

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:30:20 +0100 Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On 2010.03.20 14:04:56 +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Andrew Morton
> >> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:26 +0100
> >> > Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Attached dmesg, lspci -vv, config and xorg.
> >> >>
> >> >> When the X server crashes, the kernel does not report anything
> >> >
> >> > This seems to have gone all quiet?
> >>
> >> It seems so, I was about to ping Zhenyu.
> >
> > Could you try recent X.org intel driver release? Your failure X log
> > showed some pretty old UMS driver's render flush time out message,
> > I think whose version never has been well tested with new kms/gem stuff.
> >
> 
> Sure. Debian Stable got version 2.3.
> 
> >>
> >> >
> >> > As this was a 2.6.32->2.6.32.4 regression, I assume that it's also a
> >> > 2.6.32->2.6.33 regression?
> >>
> >> Yep. All kernels I tested since 2.6.32.4 crash, including 2.6.32.10,
> >> 2.6.33 and 2.6.34-rc1. See my original message for more details about
> >> the crash.
> >>
> >
> > Could you bisect? I doubt it's caused by David's patch, as if it is, you
> > will have trouble at early agp init time, instead of current problem looks
> > like something causing rendering hang..and I can't think of how mapping GTT
> > to a scratch page could cause problem in case GTT bar is truely 256K.
> 
> I bisected in order to find the commit 5877960869333e42ebeb733e8d9d5630ff96d350.

I have no 5877960869333e42ebeb733e8d9d5630ff96d350 here.  This is why
we ask that people always identify patches by both the hash and the
full title..


> I don't know if such commit is really the true problem (does not seem
> so if you are right); however, it is the commit that breaks the X
> server as I stated in the original message.

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