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From: cpollock@embarqmail.com (Chris)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: kernel: [154858.820009] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed.
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:19:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1418674772.2852.5.camel@embarqmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <233694.1418668997@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 13:43 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:01:54 -0800, Greg KH said:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:59:27AM -0600, Chris wrote:
> 
> > > That's what I thought Greg but wanted to make sure. AFAIK I'm not having
> > > any hardware related issues but I would like to know what the 'Hangcheck
> > > timer' is. Possibly you can enlighten me?
> >
> > That looks like a driver-specific timer, the code would tell you more,
> > take a look at it!
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's a timer for the i915 driver that detects if the
> GPU has gone into an infinite loop due to (usually) buggy programming from
> the operating system....

Thank you Valdis as far as the OS we're talking about Ubuntu not the
bios correct?

Chris

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Chris
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31.11?N 97.89?W (Elev. 1092 ft)
14:12:54 up 2:17, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.18, 0.15
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, kernel 3.13.0-43-generic

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-15 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-15 14:02 kernel: [154858.820009] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed Chris
2014-12-15 16:58 ` Greg KH
2014-12-15 17:59   ` Chris
2014-12-15 18:01     ` Greg KH
2014-12-15 18:43       ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-12-15 20:19         ` Chris [this message]
2014-12-15 21:11           ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-12-15 21:17             ` Chris
2014-12-15 22:54               ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-12-15 23:57                 ` Chris
2014-12-16  2:04                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-12-16  2:09                     ` Chris

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