From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932525AbXGYOya (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:54:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754537AbXGYOyW (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:54:22 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:23827 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761214AbXGYOyV (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:54:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rcP9GEuAbrhYEr8CzSxhsijSkag7WAHBv5kVEBddj/DTCCLB/6kD/0BMO2gJ9I6f2nrDUcmrWFOqNEQ0RfiiBi+YjySEk2KLDmY7/Bsh01xOovvcQ1QtvuROMKC5nkCvzW0AksgLFlI0HhmqD/PxL4aIMYH1DBVPI0BBHJfCFXU= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:54:20 -0700 From: "Bret Towe" To: "Nick Piggin" Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46A6C72A.9020801@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46A6C72A.9020801@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/24/07, Nick Piggin wrote: > Bret Towe wrote: > > for a while in -git I've had an issue that on boot when gdm loads the > > screen stays black > > using ctrl-f1 doesn't return to a console and killing X doesn't help any > > ssh'ing into the box does work top only shows 100% io-wait > > dmesg shows nothing odd > > > > the work around I have is at the moment is to just move the radeon drm > > module > > out of the way so it doesn't load on boot and X works just fine like that > > I did some bisecting which took a few days and tracked it down to > > commit d00806b183152af6d24f46f0c33f14162ca1262a > > > > its way to complex for me to revert it on top of -rc1 to verify that's > > the issue tho > > I keep forgetting to get a trace of what its waiting on when I'm in that > > kernel > > I assume that would be of use and Ill get that later > > > > the box this is happening on is a g4 mac mini the built in card is a > > radeon 9200 > > I'm not seeing any issues on an amd64 box with radeon card it's also a > > 9600 tho > > Is this with a binary-only module? We saw an issue with that in SLES9 > where the module is returning a locked page from its nopage handler > when it isn't really supposed to. It might be fixed in latest drivers, > have you tried them? you mean the drivers ati releases? no its all open source drivers I didn't think ati release powerpc versions of their drivers? not that id use them ether way > Thanks, > Nick > > -- > SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >