Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 10:19:22 EST


On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:47:41 +0200, Jiri Slaby said:
> On 09/19/2007 10:32 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> > That would probably have been me, saying that x86_64-mm-cpa-clflush.patch broke
> > the NVidia graphics driver in 23-rc3-mm1. Is it breaking *other* X drivers as
> > well?
>
> Yes, the issue is there from rc3-mm1, see (intel and radeon cards are affected
> in my case):
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/9/51
>
> But now I'm talking about another issue -- a regression since rc4-mm1, where X
> server is unable to bind agp memory (those x logs above). The clflush issue has
> solved andi in
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/334
> recently

Tried that, my laptop still bricks the instant X starts up and the NVidia driver
tries to initialize. Not even sysrq-foo works. Time to power-cycle.

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