On 4/24/23 18:45, Marek Olšák wrote: > Soft resets are fatal just as hard resets, but no reset is "always fatal". > There are cases when apps keep working depending on which features are being > used. It's still unsafe.
Agreed, in theory. In practice, from a user PoV, right now there's pretty much 0 chance of the user session surviving if the GPU context in certain critical processes (e.g. the Wayland compositor or Xwayland) hits a fatal reset. There's a > 0 chance of it surviving after a soft reset. There's ongoing work towards making user-space components more robust against fatal resets, but it's taking time. Meanwhile, I suspect most users would take the > 0 chance. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | https://redhat.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and Xwayland developer
