I had intended to assist in testing with real hardware but there are other issues due to the 5.10 kernel on Alpha that need fixing first and I am working on that. I am hoping to come back to this and can run some tests in the near future.
Cheers, Michael. On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 07:41:09AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Quick update: if this issue was ever fixed, the patch hasn't made it > into the mainline kernel as of 5.13.0. I'm still getting the system > lock-up when X11 starts, and have to hit the reset switch to recover. > > For whatever it might be worth, the mainline 5.10.0 kernel continues > to work properly alongside all the user space changes in "sid" that > have happened since late last year. > > Respectfully, > --Bob > > On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 12:37:14AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 12:18:58AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:15:05PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > I have lost track about this issue, so please fill me in as to whether > > > > the offending commit causing the regression has been bisected or not. > > > > > > It has. Michael Cree reported the following back on April 5th: > > > > > > And the first bad commit is: > > > > > > 0fe3cf3a53b5c1205ec7d321be1185b075dff205 is the first bad commit > > > commit 0fe3cf3a53b5c1205ec7d321be1185b075dff205 > > > Author: Christian König <christian.koe...@amd.com> > > > Date: Sat Oct 24 13:12:23 2020 +0200 > > > > > > drm/radeon: switch to new allocator v2 > > > > > > It should be able to handle all cases here. > > > > > > v2: fix debugfs as well > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koe...@amd.com> > > > Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com> > > > Reviewed-by: Madhav Chauhan <madhav.chau...@amd.com> > > > Tested-by: Huang Rui <ray.hu...@amd.com> > > > Link: > > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/397088/?series=83051&rev=1 > > > > > > :040000 040000 4e643ef861b921392bc67be21a42298c91c7ff7a > > > b36453567c3176a3cd50fa0b23886b0fd642560d M drivers > > > > There were a few follow-up messages in this thread that left me with the > > impression there *may* have been a patch submitted, although Christian > > complained at the time he was having problems locating Alpha hardware to > > test with. > > > > The current (5.12.0 kernel) problem symptoms show some "improvement". > > I at least got to the point that the login screen displayed, but it > > had a bit of pixelation/distortion in a few areas indicative of "bad > > things about to happen". Then I got the expected system lock-up, > > just as I originally reported: had to hit the reset switch to recover.
