Re: Kernel 2.6.30 and udevd problem

[Alberto Gonzalez <alberto6674@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 19:22:14 Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:09:03 +0200
>
> Alberto Gonzalez <alberto6674@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 June 2009 18:08:35 Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:46:38 +0100 (IST)
> > >
> > > Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 28 June 2009 16:28:44 Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > > > If there isn't something else running which acts on uevents
> > > > > > that trigger drm events, which I wouldn't expect, it seems
> > > > > > like a drm kernel problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, thanks for looking at it. I'll sum up the problem for DRM
> > > > > people:
> > > > >
> > > > > The problem started after upgrading to 2.6.30. At some point,
> > > > > udevd starts to use a lot of CPU time. It happens randomly, but
> > > > > it seems easier to trigger when running something graphics
> > > > > intensive (glxgears, gtkperf, tuxracer..).
> > > > >
> > > > > Killing udevd and starting it with the --debug switch throws up
> > > > > this when the problem starts:
> > > >
> > > > I've added jbarnes to the list,
> > > >
> > > > Jesses are we sending events yet? what for?
> > >
> > > Right now we just send uevents at hotplug time, so maybe one of our
> > > hotplug interrupt bits is getting stuck, resulting in a continuous
> > > stream of events as we generate other interrupts (which would happen
> > > when running 3D apps for example).
> > >
> > > There's a DRM_DEBUG statement in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
> > > under the if (I915_HAS_HOTPLUG(dev)) { check, if you make it into
> > > DRM_ERROR we can see which one is getting stuck.
> >
> > I am afraid I'll need a bit more guidance here. I guess this means
> > patching the kernel. Would it be possible to get a test patch against
> > 2.6.30? And then after patching and compiling, how should I debug it?
>
> Here's a patch against git, it should apply to 2.6.30 though I think.
>
> I'll just need your dmesg output from when the problem is occurring (if
> I'm right this patch should flood your logs).

Thanks, the patch applied to 2.6.30 and when the problem stars I get these two 
lines repeated all the time in dmesg:

[drm:i915_driver_irq_handler] *ERROR* hotplug event received, stat 0x10200300
[drm:i915_driver_irq_handler] *ERROR* hotplug event received, stat 0x18200300

Is this enough or should I provide something else?

Alberto.