Re: [PULL] drm-intel-fixes

Chris Wilson
2017-04-12T14:19:22Z

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 04:08:15PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave, I've had most of these ready for more than a week now, but
> > there was no use sending them as you were away. Fixes all around, except
> > not so much display stuff this time. Hopefully winding down for this
> > cycle now.
>
> The rcu fix from Joonas was discussed quite a bit on the m-l, and
> should fix the 4.11 stability regression a bunch of people reported.
> Just wanted to highlight that one, it's an interesting debug story.

No, the rcu hang was not widely reported (or at least I have just two hits),
it dates back to ~v4.9. What was annoying many people was us failing to
write out the legacy context image under mempressure/suspend, which was
sent in the previous fixes cycle.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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