From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kirill Smelkov Subject: Re: Major 2.6.38 / 2.6.39 regression ignored? Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 17:19:20 +0400 Message-ID: <20110528131920.GA10467@tugrik.mns.mnsspb.ru> References: <201105201306.31204.luke@dashjr.org> <013811$4lfs6@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> <201105211123.56053.luke@dashjr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Wilson Cc: Luke-Jr , Ray Lee , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, LKML , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Hello Chris, everyone, On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 04:40:17PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:23:53 -0400, "Luke-Jr" wrote: > > On Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:41:45 AM Chris Wilson wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:56 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > > > > [ Adding Chris Wilson (author of the problematic patch) and Rafael > > > > Wysocki to the message ] > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Luke-Jr wrote: > > > > > I submitted https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33662 a month > > > > > ago against 2.6.38. Now 2.6.39 was just released without the > > > > > regression being addressed. This bug makes the system unusable... Some > > > > > guys on IRC suggested I > > > > > email, so here it is. > > > > > > > > See the bugzilla entry for the bisection history. > > > > > > Which has nothing to do with Luke's bug. Considering the thousand things > > > that can go wrong during X starting, without a hint as to which it is nigh > > > on impossible to debug except by trial and error. If you set up > > > netconsole, does the kernel emit an OOPS with it's last dying breath? > > > > Why assume it's a different bug? I would almost wonder if it might affect > > all Sandy Bridge GPUs. In any case, I no longer have the original > > motherboard (it was recalled, as I said in the first post), nor even the > > revision of it (it had other issues that weren't being fixed). I *assume* I > > will have the same problem with my new motherboard (Intel DQ67SW), but I > > haven't verified that yet. I'll be sure to try a netconsole when I have to > > reboot next and get a chance to try the most recent 2.6.38 and .39 kernels, > > but at the moment it seems reasonable to address the problem bisected in the > > bug, even if it turns out to be different. > > The bisection is into an old DRI1 bug on 945GM. That DRI has inadequate > locking between release and IRQ and so is prone to such races as befell > Kirill should not surprise anyone. As neither UMS nor DRI supported SNB, > I can quite confidently state they are separate bugs. > -Chris I see DRI1 is maybe buggy and old, but still, pre-kms X used to work ok on kernels < 2.6.38, and starting from 2.6.38 the system is just unusable because X either crashes the kernel (2.6.38), or does not start at all (2.6.39): https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36052 It's a regression. It's blocking me to upgrade to newer kernels. I've done my homework -- digged it and came with detailed OOPS on netconsole and bisected to single commit. Could this please be fixed? Thanks, Kirill