Revert 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4170852473a4fcc9c67e8 ?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2011-04-13 at 14:27 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: 
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:12:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mit, 2011-04-13 at 09:59 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: 
> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:29:22PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > On Die, 2011-04-12 at 14:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:46:10PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > With no_wb=1 the driver goes a bit further but the X server ends
> > > > > > > up in an infinite ioctl loop and the logs are: 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Which ioctl does it loop on? Please provide the Xorg.0.log file as well.
> > > > > 
> > > > > From memory, the code was 0x64, which is DRM_RADEON_GEM_WAIT_IDLE.
> > > > 
> > > > Note that it's normal for this ioctl to be called every time before the
> > > > GPU accessible pixmap memory is accessed by the CPU. Unless the ioctl
> > > > always returns an error, this may not indicate a problem on its own. 
> > > 
> > > It seems to be an infinite loop, always returning EINTR because
> > > of regular SIGALRM delivery.
> > 
> > That does sound like the GPU locks up. Do you get any messages in dmesg
> > about lockups and attempts to reset the GPU at any time?
> 
> No.

Hmm, I guess the constant SIGALRMs might prevent the lockup detection
from kicking in... Maybe you can try starting the X server with
-dumbSched to see if that gets things along any further, but in the end
there's probably no way around figuring out what causes the lockup and
fixing that anyway.


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