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

[Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>]

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