Bug 24752 - Random crashes easily reproducible with make -j5 - intel i915 - kernel 2.6.36 on intel/nvidia hybrid graphics machine
Summary: Random crashes easily reproducible with make -j5 - intel i915 - kernel 2.6.36...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Video(DRI - Intel) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: drivers_video-dri-intel@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Keywords:
: 24542 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 16444
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Reported: 2010-12-12 14:36 UTC by Maciej Rutecki
Modified: 2012-04-18 20:15 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 2.6.36
Subsystem:
Regression: Yes
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Description Maciej Rutecki 2010-12-12 14:36:52 UTC
Subject    : Random crashes easily reproducible with make -j5 - intel i915 - kernel 2.6.36 on intel/nvidia hybrid graphics machine
Submitter  : Giacomo <delleceste@gmail.com>
Date       : 2010-12-10 8:57
Message-ID : AANLkTimkQM94u9iz7FVVjehB0mwDwfkNwKhF2F2tYq-r@mail.gmail.com
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129197146619176&w=2

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.35. Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2010-12-16 14:43:22 UTC
*** Bug 24542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Giacomo 2010-12-16 19:10:58 UTC
The nouveau module wasn't even compiled when the crash used to happen.
Another detail: kms was built as a module and the machine booted with
kernel parameter i915 modeset=1.

In the kernel 2.6.35 to which I switched back (and where I still haven't
run into this issue so far) kms for intel is built in.

I did not try to switch to nvidia drivers yet.
To do that I would have to blacklist i915 and install nvidia proprietary
drivers I think... so far vga switcheroo does not work for me and nvidia 
proprietary drivers hang the machine if i915 is loaded.
Comment 3 Florian Mickler 2011-01-30 16:08:34 UTC
Giacomo, is this still an issue with 2.6.37?
Comment 4 Giacomo 2011-01-31 11:10:51 UTC
Hi! I use my laptop to work so I could not accept the behaviour I experienced in 2.6.36. If in your opinion changes have been done to the code in order to solve the issue, I will try it with pleasure and let you know.

Thanks for your interest.

Giacomo.
Comment 5 Florian Mickler 2011-01-31 12:35:04 UTC
There were 345 commits to drivers/gpu/drm/i915/*. (and 200+ commits from 2.6.37 to 2.6.38-rc2..)

But other than that, no I have no specific reason to expect the issue to be fixed. So test at your own economic valuation. 


(Without specific (back-) traces, it's hard to know what the issue is.. )
Comment 6 Giacomo 2011-02-27 12:23:46 UTC
I cannot actually use kernel 2.6.37 because I am unable to switch off
the nvidia card due to

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351276

In fact, the acpi_call module which I use together with kernel 2.6.35
is able to switch off the card without problems.

With 2.6.37 something went wrong and when I try to switch off the nvidia 
card via acpi_call method the machine hangs.

There must have been a regression as to this aspect.

I'd like to know if there are some good news about vga_switcheroo 
in 2.6.37, so that I can try to use that method instead of acpi_call.

Thanks Giacomo
Comment 7 Florian Mickler 2011-03-29 21:25:51 UTC
Can you retest with 2.6.38.y ?
Comment 8 Jesse Barnes 2012-04-18 20:15:20 UTC
Not sure how this was asigned to gfx, but it's been long enough without an update that either this is fixed or the reporter got a new machine. :)

Giacomo, please re-open if this is still a problem.  A bisect between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 identifying the problem would help a lot too as it may not be a gfx issue.

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