Bug 88911

Summary: Radeon: Patch "drm/radeon: fix speaker allocation setup" causes kernel lockup
Product: Drivers Reporter: Klaus Kusche (klaus.kusche)
Component: Video(DRI - non Intel)Assignee: drivers_video-dri
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: high CC: alan, szg00000
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 3.17.3 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:

Description Klaus Kusche 2014-11-25 19:22:20 UTC
Since 3.17.3, my system (Dell precision M 6700 notebook with AMD Cap Verde
graphics) locks up hard as soon as I connect a beamer via HDMI
(both when connected to the HDMI output and when connected to the DP output
via a DP/HDMI adapter) while X is running or before starting X
(console mode only is fine). 3.17.2 worked.

With good luck, the system is still alive, but keyboard, display and mouse
are locked up, because X hangs. The system shuts down on soft power off,
but with 10 seconds delay and the filesystems still mounted: 
X seems to be unkillable.

With bad luck, the fan goes to 100 % and the kernel seems to be dead:
Zero disk activity, hard power off is the only way out.

The faulty patch is "drm/radeon: fix speaker allocation setup":
Applying or reverting this patch only makes the difference.
Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2014-11-26 03:35:09 UTC
Duplicate of bug 88481 (and bug 88781).