Re: 2.6.35-rc6+: i915: Bisected regression

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Sun Aug 01 2010 - 08:51:25 EST


Am 01.08.2010 um 13:42 schrieb Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Thomas Meyer wrote:
>> This commit makes suspend to ram unreliable for me:
>>
>> commit d1b851fc0d105caa6b6e3e7c92d2987dfb52cbe0
>> Author: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri May 21 09:08:57 2010 +0800
>>
>> drm/i915: implement BSD ring buffer V2
>>
>> The BSD (bit stream decoder) ring is used for accessing the BSD engine
>> which decodes video bitstream for H.264 and VC1 on G45+. It is
>> asynchronous with the render ring and has access to separate parts of
>> the GPU from it, though the render cache is coherent between the two.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiang Hai hao <haihao.xiang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> git revert didn't work on 2.6.35-rc6 so I just changed the HAS_BSD thing to:
>>
>> #define HAS_BSD(dev) (0)
>>
>> with this change applied suspend to ram is back to the reliability of 2.6.34.y
>>
>> with kind regards
>> thomas
>
> Added CCs.
>
> Thomas, on what hardware did you observe the regression?

Is a Intel mobile express gm45 chipset.

> Is it suspend
> or resume that is unreliable?

suspend never finishes/hangs.

> What are the particular symptoms --- does
> not suspend, crashes during suspend, crashes during resume...?

Does not suspend, backlight is on.

> --
> Stefan Richter
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