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From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.14 X spinning in the kernel
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:50:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <437A663D.5040808@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0511150247160.24064@skynet>

Dave Airlie wrote:

>>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.
>>
>>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.
> 
> 
> Yes invariably the GPU has crashed and isn't responding to anything.
> unfortuantely radeons have a lot of reasons for crashing most of them very
> unrelated to anything like reality...  we normally try and approach them
> on a case by case basis as some can be solved easily some not so...
> 
> Also what X was doing etc at the time is invalulable info..

What information I can collect ? My machine seems to be reproducing this
pretty regularly.

Thanks,
Badari


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14 23:51 2.6.14 X spinning in the kernel Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-15  0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15  0:52   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-15  1:30     ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15  2:48       ` Dave Airlie
2005-11-15  2:57         ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15  3:02           ` Dave Airlie
2005-11-15 22:50         ` Badari Pulavarty [this message]
2005-11-15  3:10       ` Dave Jones
2005-11-15 22:49       ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 21:07         ` Max Krasnyansky
2005-11-16 21:52           ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 22:11             ` Lee Revell
2005-11-16 22:37               ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 22:42             ` Dave Airlie
2005-11-16 23:27               ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-17  0:10               ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 15:24 ` Pasi Savolainen

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