From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: 3.5.x boot hang after conflicting fb hw usage vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:13:09 -0700 Message-ID: <5031C765.9050107@xenotime.net> References: <1345242330.3841.8.camel@fedora64.linuxtx.org> <502EC5A6.7040502@xenotime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Airlie Cc: "Justin M. Forbes" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fedoraproject.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On 08/17/12 15:55, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> On 08/17/2012 03:25 PM, Justin M. Forbes wrote: >>> >>>> for , we have verified cases on inteldrmfb, radeondrmfb, and >>>> cirrusdrmfb. >>>> >>>> This is the last message displayed before the system hangs. This seems >>>> to be hitting a large number of users in Fedora, though certainly not >>>> everyone. This started happening with the 3.5 updates, and is still an >>>> issue. It appears to be a race condition, because various things have >>>> allowed boot to continue for some users, though there is no clear work >>>> around. Has anyone else run across this? Any ideas. For more >>>> background we have the following bugs: >>>> >>>> inteldrmfb: >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843826 >>>> >>>> radeondrmfb: >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845745 >>>> >>>> cirrusdrmfb : >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843860 >>>> >>>> It should be noted that the conflicting fb hw usage message is not new, >>>> it has been around for a while, but this is the last message seen before >>>> the hang. >>> >>> >>> Hi, (adding dri-devel mailing list) >>> >>> >>> I started seeing this problem on 3.5-rc6. >>> >>> AFAICT, the system is not actually hung, it's just that no output >>> is showing up on the real (physical) output device (display) -- it's >>> going somewhere else (or to the bit bucket). >>> >> >> Can we bisect this at all? I guess I'll have to try again. My first attempt did not prove anything, I think because the conflict does not happen 100% of the time (i.e., it feels like a timing problem). >> I worry the intel one will bisect to where we moved the conflict >> resolution earlier, but I'd like to see if applying that patch earlier >> causes the issue, since radeon has it. Do you know of a specific commit that I could revert and test? >> I haven't reproduced this on any hw I own, I also can't get it under qemu. > > I'm also wondering whether this grub2 related in some way, grub2 is > starting to mess with the graphics adapter pointlessly. > > Dave. -- ~Randy