Re: drm/nouveau: crash regression in 3.5

From: Marcin Slusarz
Date: Wed Jul 25 2012 - 14:41:49 EST


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:46:49AM +0200, Ortwin GlÃck wrote:
> > Does it work if you boot without X and modprobe nouveau manually? If it does,
> > can you disable page flipping in xorg.conf (Option "PageFlip" "0" in nouveau
> > device section) and recheck with X?
>
> It happens long before X, when the nouveau module is loaded.
>
> > Does it work if you disable acceleration (nouveau.noaccel=1 in kernel command
> > line)?
>
> nouveau.noaccel=1 is already on my cmdline as running X with accel
> enabled never worked anyway.
>
> > Is there anything saved in /var/log/ from previous boot? Can you ssh
> > into and check dmesg? Can you use netconsole and catch full log?
>
> Thanks for the netconsole tip. I have attached the log.
>

Good, below patch should fix this panic.

Note that you can hit an oops in drm_handle_vblank because patch from
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-May/023498.html
has not been applied (yet?).

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From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:07:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: init vblank requests list

Fixes kernel panic when vblank interrupt triggers before first sync to vblank
request.

(Besides init, remove some relevant leftovers from vblank rework)

Reported-by: Ortwin GlÃck <odi@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [3.5]
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h | 2 --
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_irq.c | 4 ----
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_software.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
index 8613cb2..b863a3a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
@@ -689,8 +689,6 @@ struct drm_nouveau_private {
void (*irq_handler[32])(struct drm_device *);
bool msi_enabled;

- struct list_head vbl_waiting;
-
struct {
struct drm_global_reference mem_global_ref;
struct ttm_bo_global_ref bo_global_ref;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_irq.c
index 868c7fd..b2c2937 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_irq.c
@@ -41,12 +41,8 @@
void
nouveau_irq_preinstall(struct drm_device *dev)
{
- struct drm_nouveau_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
-
/* Master disable */
nv_wr32(dev, NV03_PMC_INTR_EN_0, 0);
-
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->vbl_waiting);
}

int
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_software.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_software.h
index e60bc6c..b507a92 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_software.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_software.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static inline void
nouveau_software_context_new(struct nouveau_software_chan *pch)
{
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pch->flip);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pch->vblank.list);
}

static inline void
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