Re: 2.6.14 X spinning in the kernel

[Andrew Morton]

Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 
> >
> > ah-hah.  We've had machines stuck in radeon_do_wait_for_idle() before.  In
> > fact, my workstation was doing it a year or two back.
> >
> > Are you able to identify the most recent kernel which didn't do this?
> >
> > David, is there a common cause for this?  ISTR that it's a semi-FAQ.
> 
> Yes invariably the GPU has crashed and isn't responding to anything.

But radeon_do_wait_for_idle() and radeon_do_wait_for_fifo() have timeouts. 
Should Badari have waited longer?

> 
> Also what X was doing etc at the time is invalulable info..
> 

And whether a particualr kernel version introduced this behaviour.
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