Re: NULL pointer dereference at cfq_exit_single_io_context

From: Pekka Paalanen
Date: Sun Oct 04 2009 - 12:32:42 EST


On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:12:55 +0300
Ozan ÃaÄlayan <ozan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The attached dmesg is obtained on a 2.6.30.8 with:
>
> - DRM patches mainly gathered from Fedora F-11 branch,
> - The following patch from mainline which addresses kernel
> bugzilla #13401:
>
> From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:08:59 +0000 (+0200)
> Subject: cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
> X-Git-Url:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=06d2188644c85c56d243efab914f368d1d23c4a3
>
>
> The user which sent me the dmesg below tells that consecutive
> attempts to boot into X with the *nouveau* driver is generally
> not possible because of random lockups.
>
> I'll have access to the machine in this week so I can try
> anything you want me to do.

This problem should be fixed now, we debugged it for a long time. E.g.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23847

The commit:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=7798546495c04a810db86be34ba1f39e370fd325
"drm/nouveau: fix missized allocation for ttm_bo_global struct"

I hope that solves your issue.

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Pekka Paalanen
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