Bug 33812 - radeon with modeset option causes oops as secondary adapter (vgaswitcheroo)
Summary: radeon with modeset option causes oops as secondary adapter (vgaswitcheroo)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Video(DRI - non Intel) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: Dave Airlie
URL:
Keywords:
: 33422 34022 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 32012
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Reported: 2011-04-21 23:14 UTC by Johannes Engel
Modified: 2011-05-04 16:33 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

See Also:
Kernel Version: 2.6.38.3
Subsystem:
Regression: Yes
Bisected commit-id:

Attachments
kernel log (84.07 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-21 23:14 UTC, Johannes Engel 		Details
lspci output (34.77 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-21 23:15 UTC, Johannes Engel 		Details
attempted fix. (1.34 KB, patch)
2011-05-01 10:14 UTC, Dave Airlie 		Details | Diff
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Description Johannes Engel 2011-04-21 23:14:59 UTC 
Created attachment 54942 [details]
kernel log

System: Lenovo ThinkPad T500
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650
using vgaswitcheroo

Trying to load radeon (as a module or in kernel) with modeset not explicitly disabled causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference if i915 has initialised the fb console already. 
That behaviour did not occur in 2.6.38, only after upgrading to 2.6.38.3 (haven't had the time to bisect yet).

If I disable switching in the BIOS and move to the radeon card as exclusive adapter, everything works fine. with dual graphics stack
Comment 1 Johannes Engel 2011-04-21 23:15:31 UTC 
Created attachment 54952 [details]
lspci output
Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2011-04-30 22:14:26 UTC 
*** Bug 34022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Dave Airlie 2011-05-01 08:07:11 UTC 
don't suppose anyone can bisect this? you'd only have to bisect drivers/gpu

I can probably try and reproduce it next week.
Comment 4 Dave Airlie 2011-05-01 10:14:41 UTC 
Created attachment 56052 [details]
attempted fix.

please test this.
Comment 5 blazej.bucko 2011-05-01 11:24:51 UTC 
It seems to be working fine.
Comment 6 Johannes Engel 2011-05-01 11:47:47 UTC 
I confirm that Dave's patch resolves the issue.
Thanks a lot!
Comment 7 Rafael J. Wysocki 2011-05-01 11:57:39 UTC 
*** Bug 33422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Rafael J. Wysocki 2011-05-01 12:00:54 UTC 
Handled-By : Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=56052
Comment 9 Steve French 2011-05-02 02:54:14 UTC 
I get this frequently on rc3, but have run more recent builds or with this patch yet.
Comment 10 Johannes Engel 2011-05-03 21:37:08 UTC 
Hi Dave,
can we expect this patch in 2.6.38.6?
Comment 11 Rafael J. Wysocki 2011-05-04 16:33:09 UTC 
Fixed by http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=eaa4f5e1d0b816291a59a47917e569c0384f2b6f

@Johannes: The commit has been annotated as "Cc: stable@kernel.org", so the
answer is yes, you can.
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