Re: Linux regressions report for mainline [2022-05-09] (was: Linux 5.18-rc6)

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 5/9/22 21:04, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 5/9/22 19:20, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 3:47 AM Regzbot (on behalf of Thorsten
>> Leemhuis) <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Linus! Here's a quick compilation of open reports about regressions in
>>> 5.18-rc that I'm currently aware of; most of the reports are quite
>>> recent and there afaics is nothing that looks particularly worrisome.
>>
>> Well, the Intel GPU issue seems likely to cause problems for lots of people:
>>
>>> [ *NEW* ] drm/i915: BYT rendering broken due to "Remove short-term pins from execbuf, v6"
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/1366349e-f96a-3f2c-3094-f5cd1a6fa31f@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/1366349e-f96a-3f2c-3094-f5cd1a6fa31f@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>>
>>> By Hans de Goede; 0 days ago; 2 activities, latest 0 days ago.
>>> Introduced in b5cfe6f7a6e1 (v5.18-rc1)
>>>
>>> Recent activities from: Tvrtko Ursulin (1), Hans de Goede (1)
>>
>> Although it looks possible that it mainly affects old chipsets (ie the
>> two reports are for a Bay Trail chip and a Core 2 Duo chip - I have no
>> idea how they compare).
>>
>> That probably means there are a lot of machines out there, but likely
>> not the kind that most kernel developers will be testing, so not a ton
>> of reports until it hits distro kernels etc.
>>
>> It looks like Maarten is already involved.
> 
> This is being tracked here:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/5806
> 
> I've just tested a patch from Maarten which fixes things for me,
> so hopefully we can get this resolved soon.

Maarten, it would be nice if we can get this fixed before 5.18
is released. What is the status of getting your:

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/485889/

patch for this merged ?

Regards,

Hans