Re: 2.6.14 X spinning in the kernel

Andrew Morton
2005-11-15T02:58:20Z

Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> wrote:
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> > ah-hah. We've had machines stuck in radeon_do_wait_for_idle() before. In
> > fact, my workstation was doing it a year or two back.
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> > Are you able to identify the most recent kernel which didn't do this?
> >
> > David, is there a common cause for this? ISTR that it's a semi-FAQ.
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> Yes invariably the GPU has crashed and isn't responding to anything.

But radeon_do_wait_for_idle() and radeon_do_wait_for_fifo() have timeouts.
Should Badari have waited longer?

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> Also what X was doing etc at the time is invalulable info..
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And whether a particualr kernel version introduced this behaviour.