Re: [git pull] drm for 6.8

[Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>]

On 1/24/2024 11:51, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Linus, if you have a minute, I'd really like to know...
> 
> On 24.01.24 17:41, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> On 1/24/2024 10:24, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>> On 1/24/24 16:31, Donald Carr wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 7:06 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>>> When testing the rc1 on my openSUSE Tumbleweed desktop, I've started
>>>>> experiencing "frozen desktop" (KDE/Wayland) issues. The symptoms are
>>>>> that
>>>>> everything freezes including mouse cursor. After a while it either
>>>>> resolves,
>>>>> or e.g. firefox crashes (if it was actively used when it froze) or it's
>>>>> frozen for too long and I reboot with alt-sysrq-b. When it's frozen
>>>>> I can
>>>>> still ssh to the machine, and there's nothing happening in dmesg.
>>>>> The machine is based on Amd Ryzen 7 2700 and Radeon RX7600.
>>>> [...]
>>>> I am experiencing the exact same symptoms;
>>>
>>> Big thanks to Thorsten who suggested I look at the following:
>>>
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240123021155.2775-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com/
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABXGCsM2VLs489CH-vF-1539-s3in37=bwuOWtoeeE+q26zE+Q@mail.gmail.com/
>>>
>>> Instead of further bisection I've applied Mario's revert from the
>>> first link
>>> on top of 6.8-rc1 and the issue seems gone for me now.
>>
>> Thanks for confirming.  I don't think we should jump right to the revert
>> right now.
>>
>>    I posted it in case that is the direction we need to go
>> (simple git revert didn't work due to contextual changes).
>>
>> Let's give the folks who work on GPU scheduler some time to understand
>> the failure and see if they can fix it.
> 
> ...how you think about this and other situations like this. Given that
> we have
> 
> * two affected people in this thread
> * one earlier thread about it
> * the machine that made Mario write the patch
> * and I have someone in #fedora-kernel that likely is affected as well
> 
> it seems that this is not some corner case very few people run into.
> Hence I tend to say that this should be dealt with rather sooner than
> later. Maybe before rc2? Or is this asking too much?
> 
> The thing from my point of view is, that each such problem might
> discourage testers from testing again or lead to thoughts like "I only
> start testing after -rc4". Not to mention that other people will try to
> bisect the problem like Vlastimil did, which will cost them quite some
> time and effort -- only to find out that we known about the problem
> already and did not quickly fix it. That is discouraging for them as
> well and thus bad for field testing I'd assume.
> 
> Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
> --
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A test patch was just posted.  I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet. 
I will this afternoon.