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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Mask the ring->head offset using the ring->size
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:59:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117105927.GI4093@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320793992-2891-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:13:12PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Rather than relying on the hardware to do this correctly, we can
> trivially do it ourselves.
> 
> This fixes a very reliable crash on d-i-n with all bits enabled during a
> cairo-trace replay. The symptoms of the crash is that we continue to
> write commands into the render ring buffer past the active head
> position, leading to undefined operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org

I guess this is just the usual "snb doesn't like being pushed to hard bug"
resulting in random crashes with confusing error_states. So I think I'll
drop this. Correct?
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-08 23:13 [PATCH] drm/i915: Mask the ring->head offset using the ring->size Chris Wilson
2012-01-17 10:59 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2012-01-17 11:14   ` Chris Wilson
2012-02-08 12:49     ` Chris Wilson

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