Re: PROBLEM: Linux 5.4.237 i915 driver crashes on boot (-longterm regression)

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 21 2023 - 03:43:10 EST


On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 01:36:05AM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Linux 5.4.237 crashes immediately on my machine every time when the i915
> driver is loaded, with an error like the one below. Previous versions are OK.
>
> I bisected it to commit 1aed78cfda7f ("drm/i915: Don't use BAR mappings
> for ring buffers with LLC"). I can revert this on top of 5.4.237 and
> this seems sufficient to make the machine boot and work again.
>
> Let me know if you need any more info.

This should be fixed in the 5.4.238-rc1 release that is out for testing
right now, if not, please let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h