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From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm next tree
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:21:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D89E5E1.3070402@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinoTs89ThBnZ17+fPE+t1V=GycKq2EJG-LadFZQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/22/2011 10:19 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I had  hoped - yes, very naïve of me, I know - that this merge
> window would be different.
>
> But it's not.
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Dave Airlie<airlied@linux.ie>  wrote:
>    
>> i915: big 855 fix, lots of output setup refactoring, lots of misc fixes.
>>      
> .. and apparently a lot of breakage too. My crappy laptop that I abuse
> for travel is - once more - broken by the updates. I cannot suspend
> and resume, because every resume seems to fail.
>
> One of the more useful failures was:
>
> [   61.656055] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer
> elapsed... GPU hung
> [   61.656079] [drm] capturing error event; look for more information
> in /debug/dri/0/i915_error_state
> [   61.664387] [drm:i915_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_wait_request
> returns -11 (awaiting 2 at 0, next 3)
>
> and I'm attaching the error_state file from that particular case here.
> In other cases it seems to just hang entirely.
>
> Keith/Jesse/Chris - I don't know that it's i915, and it will take
> forever to bisect (I'll try). But it does seem pretty likely.
>
>                               Linus
>    
Why can't the gpu be reset/restarted when this happens? When a nic card 
gets hung it is reinitialized
and restarted why not the gpu?

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-17  4:09 [git pull] drm next tree Dave Airlie
2011-03-23  2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-23 12:21   ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2011-03-23 14:39     ` Jerome Glisse
2011-03-23 15:22     ` Jesse Barnes
2011-03-23 14:22   ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-23 15:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-23 15:33     ` Jesse Barnes
2011-03-24  0:54       ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-30  2:49 Dave Airlie
2014-01-30  4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-30 12:33 ` Paul Bolle
2014-01-30 15:55 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-02-07 10:08   ` Jiri Kosina
2014-02-07 11:10     ` Jani Nikula
2014-02-07 13:40       ` Jiri Kosina
2014-02-07 14:05         ` Daniel Vetter
2014-02-07 14:15           ` Jiri Kosina

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