linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] vmwgfx crashes with command buffer error after update

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Message-ID: <20240819194911.7999bec1@riri>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:49:11 +0200
From: Paul Rolland <rol@...be.net>
To: Christian Heusel <christian@...sel.eu>
Cc: Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@...adcom.com>, Broadcom internal kernel review
 list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>, Martin Krastev
 <martin.krastev@...adcom.com>, Maaz Mombasawala
 <maaz.mombasawala@...adcom.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Brad
 Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>, rdkehn@...il.com,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, regressions@...ts.linux.dev, rol@...be.net
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] vmwgfx crashes with command buffer error
 after update

Hello,

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:48:47 +0200
Christian Heusel <christian@...sel.eu> wrote:

> While we were still debugging the issue Brad (also CC'ed) messaged me
> that they were seeing similar failures in their ESXi based test
> pipelines except for one box that was running on legacy BIOS (so maybe
> that is relevant). They noticed this because they had set panic_on_warn.

I have the same problem at home using ESXi and UEFI Bios with my VMs:
kernel 6.10.4 and 6.10.5 are showing an error with vmwgfx while booting and
there is no console available, though it's still possible to remotely
access the VMs using SSH.

Reverting to 6.10.3 solves the problem.

Regards,
Paul


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