Re: [PATCH 1/2] radeon: fix radeon kms framebuffer device

[Jerome Glisse <glisse@freedesktop.org>]

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:12 -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >> smem.start is a physical address which kernel can remap to access
> >> video memory of the fb buffer. We now pin the fb buffer into vram
> >> by doing so we are loosing vram but fbdev need to be reworked to
> >> allow change in framebuffer address.
> >
> > I tested this (and the corresponding 2/2 initialization order, but 
> > with radeon as a module), and plymouth seems to be fully functional 
> > (graphical boot, password prompt, etc).
> >
> > (The driver set the wrong mode, but that's a different issue.)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
> >
> Got an oops after awhile:
> 
> BUG: Bad page state in process gpg-agent  pfn:37dd5
> page:ffffea0000c38698 flags:200000000050000c count:0 mapcount:0 
> mapping:(null) index:7fd35e311
> Pid: 3131, comm: gpg-agent Not tainted 2.6.30 #5
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff810bc99b>] bad_page+0x115/0x13e
>  [<ffffffff810bcbd3>] free_pages_check+0x3c/0x6d
>  [<ffffffff810bde8f>] free_hot_cold_page+0x4e/0x151
>  [<ffffffff810bdfce>] __pagevec_free+0x3c/0x65
>  [<ffffffff810c1c82>] release_pages+0x1a5/0x1cb
>  [<ffffffff810de357>] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x6d/0x9e
>  [<ffffffff810d584b>] tlb_finish_mmu+0x41/0x63
>  [<ffffffff810d5b3f>] exit_mmap+0xfb/0x138
>  [<ffffffff8104beae>] mmput+0x55/0xc1
>  [<ffffffff81050626>] exit_mm+0x10e/0x12f
>  [<ffffffff8105226f>] do_exit+0x1b4/0x6a8
>  [<ffffffff8106c6b0>] ? up_read+0x1c/0x32
>  [<ffffffff810527e2>] do_group_exit+0x7f/0xac
>  [<ffffffff81052834>] sys_exit_group+0x25/0x3d
>  [<ffffffff8100beab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> 
> I don't know if this is related to the drm changes.
> 
> Back to 2.6.29 for me :)  (I actually use this machine, so I'd rather 
> not run kernels that cause random corruption.)
> 
> --Andy

Could you get a trace using Linus pte check patch he posted earlier
on the other thread ?

Jerome