Re: 3.5 regression on i915

[Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 10:20:16 +0200, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:04:34AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > The crash happens here in i915_gem_entervt_ioctl() :
> > > 
> > >     3659          BUG_ON(!list_empty(&dev_priv->mm.active_list));
> > >     3660          BUG_ON(!list_empty(&dev_priv->mm.flushing_list));
> > >  -> 3661          BUG_ON(!list_empty(&dev_priv->mm.inactive_list));
> > >     3662          mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
> > 
> > That BUG_ON there is silly and can simply be removed. The check is to
> > verify that no batches were submitted to the kernel whilst the UMS/GEM
> > client was suspended - to which the BUG_ONs are a crude approximation.
> > Furthermore, the checks are too late, since it means we attempted to
> > program the hardware whilst it was in an invalid state, the BUG_ONs are
> > the least of your concerns at that point.
> 
> Excellent, that fixed it ! X still segfaults when KMS is used, but
> I expect more of a pure user-space issue here since there is nothing
> in dmesg.
> 
> Would some of you accept the following patch and tag it for -stable ?

Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre