Reverting these two patches did not help. Tested with 3.17.0-rc3 . Btw, reverting the second patch was not so easy. radeon_ring.c was splitted up and the patch had to be applied to radeon_ib.c . the first patch has been reverted here: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon?id=b738ca5d68e4051c86e32f46f67a69f3bb9cee5e