Re: DRM Error on Acer Aspire One

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 17:10:53 +0100 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 May 2010 20:30:07 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > With latest git kernel, I am getting following DRM error and not
> > getting XWindows :
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Hmm, there are still patches for capturing error state that haven't gone
> upstream, shame on me.
> 
> That error is a secondary issue to the GPU hang that is being reported. If
> it is a regression caused by a kernel update it would be very useful if
> you could bisect to the erroneous commit.

It helps if one reads the code and the trace...

i915_error_object_create() is using KM_USER0 from softirq context. 
That's a bug, and a pretty serious one.  If some innocent civilian is
writing highmem data to disk and this timer interrupt fires and trashes
his KM_USER0 slot, the disk contents will be corrupted.

Something like this...

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c~a
+++ a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
@@ -456,11 +456,15 @@ i915_error_object_create(struct drm_devi
 
 	for (page = 0; page < page_count; page++) {
 		void *s, *d = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		unsigned long flags;
+
 		if (d == NULL)
 			goto unwind;
-		s = kmap_atomic(src_priv->pages[page], KM_USER0);
+		local_irq_save(flags);
+		s = kmap_atomic(src_priv->pages[page], KM_IRQ0);
 		memcpy(d, s, PAGE_SIZE);
-		kunmap_atomic(s, KM_USER0);
+		kunmap_atomic(s, KM_IRQ0);
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
 		dst->pages[page] = d;
 	}
 	dst->page_count = page_count;
_

Please let's get a tested fix for this into 2.6.34.