Re: [BISECTED] drm: random hang since 620f378 "drm: prune modeswhen ..."

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Sun Dec 13 2009 - 15:00:38 EST


On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:30:25PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> And now it's obvious that my computer hates me. 12 hours of uptime, one reboot
> to check the old other version is broken, it crashes. I reboot into the
> good version, send out the above email and the next minute it crashes again.
> c05422d52ee6b is not the culprit. Sorry Daniel for blaming your patch.

No problem. Looks like your hunting a pretty ugly Heisenbug. There's quite
a interesting blog post by Paul McKenney, esp. the solution to "Quick Quiz 1"
might be usefull in your case:

http://paulmck.livejournal.com/14639.html

Happy Hunting, Daniel
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